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   DCarr10760 | Sep 13, 2006 10:03pm | #1

   Matt,

   Thanks for reissuing the poster, I didn't get one years ago and have been looking for one since.

   Best Regards,

   David Carroll

    

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   user-200815 | Sep 13, 2006 10:43pm | #2

   OK - here's mine. And like most of these things, has evaolved some more since these photos were taken.

   More on this cabinet - from initial design to on the wall and filled at

   http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/RightToolCabinet.html

   And here's what's in it and more has been
   added since.

   http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/RightToolCabinet4.html

   I made two of the cabinet carcase and
   doors at the same time, suspecting that only one wasn't going to have enough room eventually. By making two identical carcases and doors, and going "modular" for the custom "fill ins" I can rearrange things between cabinets as well as within a cabinet. In almost every case, the modules were made from scraps and left overs that weren't big enough for furniture making. AND - I got to practice finger/box joints, dovetails, sliding dovetails, rabbets and simple dadoes on a bunch or Low Risk (less cussing and swearing, less precious wood wasted) projects.

   charlie b

   
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   BG | Sep 14, 2006 12:20am | #4

   Charlie b,
   Nice set up, I have a somewhat similar arrangement,if it's any consolation, my right door sags too. It's hard to imagine the quality of workmenship is at fault...I think we have grounds for a class action suit...lol.

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   Floss | Sep 13, 2006 11:43pm | #3

   OK,

   Mine is made of Birdseye and Curly Maple.

   I can fit almost as much on top as I can inside.

   A true testimonial of my supreme organizational skills.

   And I would think an excellent candidate for the back cover. Something to rival Mr. Studley?

   J.P.

   
4. 
   alanplanesaw | Sep 14, 2006 06:59am | #5

   Matt,

   I didn't see it stated anywhere so I thought I would ask.  Do I assume correctly that the poster comes rolled up in a tube?  Suitable for professional framing?

   And, let me hasten to add my thanks for re-issuing the poster.

   Alan - planesaw

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   MBerger | Sep 14, 2006 08:15pm | #9

   Alan, Yes the poster comes rolled up in a tube and is suitable for professional framing.

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   mvflaim | Sep 14, 2006 04:06pm | #6

   Here's mine made out of of oak and walnut. I got the dimensions off a picture from the "Toolbox Book". It holds about 100 tools and about half of them are antiques. It's not as nice as the Studley but it works for me just fine.. for now..

    

   Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I'll remember, but let me try and I will understand.

   
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   dtraversi | Sep 15, 2006 03:27am | #10

   Hey mv- Your tool chest is fantastic- no disrespect to Mr. Studley but I'd take yours over his any day - a perfect combination of form and function.A beautiful tool chest fails me if I have to take out 3 tools to get the one I want.Next time you get out the camera I'd love to see a few close-ups.
   Dave

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   mvflaim | Sep 15, 2006 04:39am | #12

   Dave, Alan,

   Thanks for the compliment!!!!.. I'll try to upload some more pictures and post this weekend... THANKS AGAIN!!!

   Mike

   Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I'll remember, but let me try and I will understand.

   Edited 9/14/2006 9:42 pm ET by mvflaim

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   alanplanesaw | Sep 15, 2006 04:39am | #11

   mvflaim,

   Any chance of seeing a few larger photos.  These are so small I have difficulty seeing them.  I'll second someone else's comments on hoping for a few more detail photos.

   Thanks,

   Alan - planesaw

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   mvflaim | Sep 16, 2006 05:08pm | #13

   Alan and Dave,

   Here are some more pictures of my tool cabinet. The cabinet measures 32"W x 11"D x 76"T.  The drawers are walnut with a piece of paduak that serves as a drawer pull. I originally built the cabinet in 2001 but I redid the inside last year to accomodate more planes that I've aquired since then. I think it holds over 100 tools but I never actually counted them.

   I've also included some shots of a toolbox that I made last year that matches the cabinet. Design the same way as the cabinet but I simplified the drawers by just using a rabbet joint held with dowel pins instead of the through dovetails i used on the cabinet. It mainly stores my wrenches and screwdrivers and other types of tools and sits on one of my workbenches by the wall. 

    

   Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I'll remember, but let me try and I will understand.

   Edited 9/16/2006 10:04 pm ET by mvflaim

   
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   alanplanesaw | Sep 16, 2006 06:12pm | #14

   mvflaim --

   I immediately thought of one word -- Inspiring!

   Thanks for taking the time to post the extra photos.  Truly an inspiring work.

   Alan - planesaw

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   PADDYDAHAT | Sep 18, 2006 07:54am | #15

   Myflaim. many thanks for the pics. I am moving into a retirement house with a 24' by 48' shop under it and have lived with a garage shop for 25 years and lately a convereted lower level family room(after the LOML passed and the three kids escaped)  and this one will be a little more functional. I have the normal big power tools but a (large) bag full of hand tools that are in almost every corner of the house. I plan to make a place for every tool to have a place to be housed by building wall units like yours. One for the bedrocks and block types, one for the bailey's and combination planes, another for the specialty planes(020c-778 records large and small routers, 98/99 etc.) , shoulders and rabbets. Others will be for braces from a stodards to an old british  brass capped woodie and full sets of old bits and other attachments. There is more but the idea is that if all the principal tools have a home there will be none laying about the shop unless they are in use.

   They will be 48" x 60" and as deep as required by the tallest tool( a 608 needs more depth than the racks of carving tools or bench and mortise chisels). They will all have thin doors with clear glazing to see all of the contents with no drawers with the exception of the combination planes case. Where and how do you house the irons for your 45 or the irons for your planes? How did you mount the bench planes at their toe -I see the drop in for the back end and the very clever wood tab between the 98/99- very neat.

   Your case is a joy to behold, thanks again. Pat

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   mvflaim | Sep 18, 2006 04:24pm | #16

   Hi Pat, thanks for the kind words. 

   The irons for the 45 are inside the top drawer of the cabinet. I bought them on Ebay a few years back but they didn't come with the original box so I got them cheap. I sharpened each blade on my tormek and they work like a charm now. The bench planes are held to the case with a little wooden "sock". Basically it's a piece of wood that I traced the heel of the plane around and cut out on the bandsaw. Then I attach a 1/4" piece of wood on top of that so that the heel of the plane will fit inside like a sock. Works really well. The paduak levers on top were originally doweled into place but they kept falling out so I redid it using a simple drywall screw. Maybe someday I'll replace the drywall screws with stainless steel to make it look nicer. I place thin magnets on the plane bed to protect the blade. They're basically magnetic calendars you put on your refrigerator that I cut to size and fit on the plane over the blade. It's a trick I learned at a woodworking show one day. 

   Hopefully you'll get your cabinet built soon so you can post pictures of it on here someday. I started building mine in 1999 but it sat in my parents basement unfinished for two years. The only thing that was built was the outside case and the doors. I originally built raised panel doors for the front but I must have been using green wood because they dried and cracked inside the frame. The wood I used was originally meant to be oak fence boards that were 6" wide X 1" thick X 16' long so I doubt they were ever kiln dried. After breaking up with my girlfriend I decided to take my mind of things and finish it. I finally got it done in Dec 2001. Then last year, I decided to redo the inside of it so that it could hold more of the planes I acquired since then. All of them are old Stanley's that I bought at auction and cleaned up. My No 8C has a Hock blade in it and boy does it sing! I may replace all of my Stanley blades with Hock or Lie-Nielsen someday.

   Next, I'd like to build a tool chest to house my wooden molding planes that I use. Not sure if I'll make it out of pine or maybe I'll stick to oak and walnut to carry the same theme as the cabinet and toolbox. I've been thinking about making it for four years but never have gotten around to it. I just have too many other things on my list to do right now.

   Thanks Mike

   Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I'll remember, but let me try and I will understand.

   Edited 9/18/2006 9:44 am ET by mvflaim

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   Lataxe | Sep 14, 2006 05:06pm | #7

   Mr Berger,

   As one newly inclined to try handtools, I must ask that you stop adding to my list of handtool wooden acoutrements-to-be-made.  First it was a workbench and now a toolbox!

   Will I ever get back to making furniture?  Next it'll be "Your New Shop" (to put all the benches and toolboxes in) and I'll have to go learn all about timber framing. That G&G desk is still waiting to be made, you know; and the ladywife is drumming her fingernails a bit!

   Lataxe - thinking of piling the tools into a big sack.

   PS Where is my 1920 X 1200 screensaver? (I have to have a big screen, as I'm old and the peepers are weakening).  :-)

7. 
   tms | Sep 14, 2006 08:15pm | #8

   Well,

   Here's my practice attempt at Chris Gochnour's tool chest, featured in Fine Woodworking #169. I plan to make one in koa later this year, but I wanted make a pine version, to get familar with the design first. The finish is Old Fashioned Milk Paint on the exterior, and shellac on the interior.

   There's also a beautiful example of the same chest by Russel, in the Gallery
   http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=31612.1

   Tom

   
   

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   Edited 9/14/2006 4:37 pm ET by tms