Thread: Tool Cabinet

Can’t help you with any plans, surely it would depend on what you wanted to store if you looked at the tool collection of each member of this forum they would no doubt each have a radically different collection, so would have different needs for a tool cabinet.

This link http://www.terraclavis.com/bws/toolstorage.htm is of one persons attempt and not a bad one imo.

Thanks.
He's certainly got some hand plane collection.

Maybe even Derek would be envious

He says this design "... would also serve to limit my collection to what I could fit in the box." That's the thing that always bothers me when thinking about building one of these. I know as soon as I'm finished, I'll buy another tool and then I'll have to find somewhere to put it! Even if you allow for expansion, I reckon you'll end up making more than one of these in your life time...

Craig, what IS that picture you have as your Avatar at the moment? It looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it...

Spent the last 50 years of my life modifying my tool box. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration I cleaned the workshop a couple of times as well.

I always think wall mounted toolboxes are a wast of valuable wall space. What do you do when you want to take your tools out of the shop.

Craig, what IS that picture you have as your Avatar at the moment? It looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it...

Darren,
It's the cover from a Little Feat album from the seventies called Sailing Shoes. One of my all time favorite bands.

I guess that the tool cabinet could have a problem with expanding tool collections but I intend for it to be 1.8 metres wide when opened so it should do me for a while.

Unfortunately my work area is very small, only about 12 sq metres floor space so I want to maximise that space as much as possible and get whetver I can onto the walls.

Craig

Ahh, there you go. Knew I'd seen it before - a mate has it. I was working in record shop in Manly when Let It Roll (1988) came out and I'm ashamed to say it was the first time I'd heard of them...

How about this one from NYW?
http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?0313
You really should see the one he got his idea from. It was a piano makers cabinet build up over a lifetime. That was pure perfection.

Craig,

I built this tool cabinet, which is illustrated on pages 170-171 of Scott Landis' book "The Workshop Book". It is free-standing with a footprint of 550 x 1000 mm and is about 1.8 m high. It is in two sections; the upper section can be wall-hung. I hang some clamps and long straight-edges on the sides, and cross-cut sleds and extension flexes on the back.

I keep all my planes, chisels, screw-drivers and sharpening gear in the top section, and saws, measuring gear, power-tools and accessories in the lower section. You may wonder where the flexes of the power tools are. I cut them short, so that there is only about 400 mm of flex left on each power tool for ease of stowage. I run the power tools using a 1 m extension flex hanging from an outlet which hangs on a chain from the roof of the shed above my workbench.

Rocker

Norm's version looks pretty good.
I don't think we've had that episode here yet.

The cable channel that shows NYW in Oz is a couple of seasons behind I think :mad:

We must be lucky in UK. We usually get the new series as soon as they finish their run in America. That wall cabinet was the last programme of the 2002 season. We get constant re-runs of every episode since 1989. Discovery Home & Leisure said they have no plans to show this seasons shows so they are being bombarded with email complaints.
We have a new woodworking show just finished it's 1st run.
'The Great British Woodshop'. Strange as David Free who presents it is one of you Aussies. He has some of us up in arms as he is using a Unisaw the same as Norm & uses stacked dado head cutters that most can't use here because the EU dictates that all table saws must have an electric brake.
The show has definitely been made for world wide sale as the director worked for WGBH in America on New Yankee Workshop & This Old House for 15 years.

Very interesting.

How does it compare to NYW?

Is it just a clone or something different?

Be great if we could convince our Lifestyle channel to buy it but I won't hold my breath

Yes Lifestyle channel can be a bit slow to buy some shows.

I like NYW and also This old house but they keep showing the same episodes and one particular renovation over and over again.

I made reference to this once before, but you may wish to draw inspiration from one of the most famous toolchests, the Studley toolchest. This is the toolchest that all aspire to!!!!!!!!

Here is a link for more info:

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/w00088.asp

Regards from Perth

Derek

Check this thread on tool cabinets cabinets
I have built 2 using Jim Tolpins book " The Toolbox Book "
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paul