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Toolbox Tours de Force

Tool-storage solutions show style, ingenuity

By Vincent Laurence #105–Mar/April 1994 Issue

Readers share inspiring photos of their toolboxes — nine exceptional examples of fine chests and wall-mounted cabinets. They range from small, portable inlaid works of art to traditional 19th-century-style chests and utilitarian, every-tool-in-its-place boxes. Multilayered and many-drawered, this article reveals the limitless possibilities for showing off or just carrying around your favorite tools. One toolbox is a refitted Gibson guitar case.

From Fine Woodworking #105

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