Storage - its gotta be sorted - ideas and threads please

[Basilg]

Clinton

I posted a response to Derek in his thread

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/w...update-134481/

Beneath my tool board & plane cabinet there are two Office File Suspension Cabinets. inside they have two full extension slides from which files were hung. I simply made a shallow ply box with lots of dividers & fixed this in the suspension frame, I store screws, nails hardware etc in these drawers. One cabinet has extra slides for all the small stuff. The other cabinet I fitted a couple of shelves as well as the two extension slides.

You should be able to pick these up from a 2nd hand office furniture place. They are well made from laminated particle board, and are quite sturdy as they are intended to store a quantity of heavy paper. Mine have a great deal of weight in them & have stood up well, for around eight years.

Regards

[Clinton1]

At this point I will thank all contributors and let you know that I'm going to be off line for a week or so...between a family committment and a short notice work trip I don't think that I'll get to be as interactive as I feel I should be.

I've gained valuable insights so far, and encourage people to keep putting up their 'good ideas'.

One thing that has become clear is that 'small item' storage keeps being raised. Jars, containers, dividers in drawers (however mounted... filing cabinet, drawer or shelf)... and I've been nodding my head and agreeing that some solution there is a definative YES.

I also see that the 'how you organise your tools and keep them handy to the bench' is a big one, noticable by its limited 'tips',and reinforced by the various custom solutions that are seperate threads. More a matter of personal taste and based on workspace, perhaps??

I am starting to lean to a large, castor mounted, table... with lots of shelves/drawers and perhaps a bit of a multifunction design.

Thursday I did up some frames which are either going to be used for the table, can be incorporated into a rolling cupboard, or used as a coffee table top skirt so I can start to get my head around it all. I'm more visual and tactile with design as I usually design systems rather than 'items' and models form a part of my conceptualisation when I get to the 'physical' part.

Frame and panel construction will be used for whatever I come up with. Speed and ease is attractive.
1150 x 950 frames from some leftovers of 50 x 30mm. Just 3 to start with as I'll clamp them to some boards and look, think, feel. Castors and a top can raise it to bench height so it can be a 'bench extender... 4 frames can make two seperate 'cabinets' which can be joined together with 'fittings' and via a top piece... will be the right height to lean my drawing board on when I am standing....

Hopefully I'll be able to keep drawing and thinking while I'm away.

Please keep throwing up ideas, its been invaluable so far and I'll be back to this thread in a short while.
(and yep, there is an overenthusiastic 'hurry up and get it done a cleaned up' in the photo... bottom right corner shows one tenon cut too deep and I had to put in a floating tenon)

[joe greiner]

I was about to re-photograph these, but WWF Search function came to the rescue:
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f11/we...f-cages-82190/

Cheers,
Joe

[Luddite]

Clinton,

I have plans for a plywood A frame storage system, just like Ray's but you make it out of plywood instead of steel. It is effectively 2 sheets of 12mm plywood in an A shape on top of a base with wheels. There are 4 shelves running inside the A frame to hold timber and keep things tidy. You can store tools on the top shelf if you wish. I put my planes up there so they are in easy reach.

It could probably store 15-20 full sheets of plywood plus timber, so it has great capacity and is really quick to build.

If you, or anybody else, would like a copy just send me a pm. Happy to assist.

Anthony