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Mine will be in two parts that can be stored in our laundry room in a former cut-out that was intended for using a sewing machine. Its loosely based on Schwarz's larger Dutch tool box. I have looked into all the different ideas that have been posted and finally designed a tool chest that I will enjoy making and will also hold most of my tools with room for more. Being able to park my cars in the garage is the real benefit. I only do wood working on the weekends so having to bring the shop together like this isn't that much of a pain. If I'm carrying two boxes and setting them up that is no worse than what I have to go through to set my work bench up every time to use it. I do need something that I can carry from the laundry room, down three steps into the garage and then back. Nice thing about all these chests is one can make them any size they want. Then a second box for the top box to rest on (with dowels or similar) and the second box would have deep drawers or a shelf for two areas of storage. I probably won't build the dutch tool chest exactly but I'm toying with the layout concept of the top chest having an access panel on the front so one can better access the items in the top and then an open space beneath. My concept has drawers because I wanted to build drawers but there may be some benefit to simple shelves. What I liked about the dutch tool chest is the shelved space at the bottom. What I was really looking for was to see if what I designed was too cumbersome and foolish but to see videos of Chris Schwarz moving his dutch tool boxes around by carrying, on wheels or set on top of a stool tells me that I am on the right path. I also looked at Tommy McDonald's tool box but it may be a little too complex for my skill level at this point. I agree with vertical storage of the saws and one of my original plans included a pullout with the saws in the vertical position. I've always seen people with large collections of those and wondered why? But I'm not building stuff that require those yet. I really can't imagine getting a bunch of molding planes. I bought mine for cheap at an antiques store.
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Mike Davis says my jack plane is junk so that may get replaced one day as well. Same thing for a larger version of a router plane. In fact the shoulder plane in the above photo I don't own, but I'm saving space for.
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There are a couple more tools that I envision getting at some point and they are part of the current plan for the full tool cabinet. As to expansion for more tools that will sort of come as it comes. It gives me ideas but the most important one being that my design isn't that bad and perhaps I should just go with that. I looked at the anarchist's tool box and discovered the dutch tool box instead. But I would like to use some decent joinery on it and not just staple a wood box together.Īll very good points. No hardwoods as I just don't have time for that sort of thing. It would be kept in one of the drawers of the second unit of the cabinet.īTW - the wood I'm using for the top box is simple white wood. I also have a rabbet plane which is not shown and I couldn't make or find a model of one that matched mine. The main things I want to keep in this box are the planes and saws. My concern is that I am making a heavy box to hold these things in and I wanted to see if there were any ideas of a better system. They are pretty self evident except red handle item is a mortise chisel. These are the tools that will reside in the tool cabinet. There is a platform that will set on the stool and the tool cabinet will fit to, that is not shown in this image. The whole thing rests on top of a plywood stool which I built last Spring. The top box which has already been featured, a middle two drawer section and a bottom one drawer section. This is a mock-up of the full tool cabinet which comes in three pieces. I've done the measurements of the tools and materials and they do fit. This second image shows a close-up of the planes that will be kept inside. There are handles on either side of the box. This first image shows the basic tool box that has most of the planes in the bottom with two trays that stack on risers along the walls of the box and hold the specialty saws and a mortise chisel. I would keep it in the laundry room and bring it out to the garage when I need it. So this tool chest would be somewhat portable. I'm trying to reserve the tool chest/work space in the garage for DIY type tools like wrenches and screwdrivers and get the expensive woodworking tools inside. These consist of the planes, specialty saws, chisels and some specialty items. I am planning to build a tool box for keeping certain tools in that I don't want out in the garage with the humidity. I've posted on this before but need to pop up some ideas to generate some ideas or thought.