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   JimGG_ | May 31, 2001 12:15am | #1

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   The Toolbox Book by Jim Tolpin, Taunton Press, can give you some ideas to design your own, based on your space and number of tools.

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   Bill_Richardson | May 31, 2001 10:08pm | #2

   *In the last issue of FWW there was an article on a very nice wall cabinet specifically designed by a carver to hold all of his chisels. Featured a picture of him carving some intricate designs with the cabinet in the background, I don't know which grabbed my attention more. As I recall, he stated that he either wound up with too many chisels hanging around and needed a place to put them or he needed a place for the chisels that he used least and to make room for those he used most on his bench? In the end, the cabinet design and end product were very simple and easy, so easy as I recall, it could be removed from the wall for easy transport. Good luck.

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   David_A._Brown | Jun 08, 2001 11:19pm | #3

   *Just a suggestion...I recently moved my shop into a 22x40 garage. The previous owner had built plywood cabinets covering nearly every wall. I thought "Great! I'll have a place for EVERYTHING!". It didn't take long for me to learn to hate the cabinets though. Why? The doors are 3/4" plywood, and there are dozens of them. With so many cabinets, I can't remember what I've put where. With opaque doors, I can't tell what's in each cabinet without opening every door. As such, I've pretty much left the cabinets empty, or put "stuff I'll never use again" in them. I'd much rather have more wall space and fewer cabinets.My suggestion? Put glass or plexiglass in your cabinet doors. Sooner or later you'll have more than one cabinet. Then you'll wish you could see what was in each.Dave

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   Ron_Teti | Jul 07, 2001 04:06am | #4

   *I built my cabs for my garage. I use solid doors in stead of shelving open cabs ect because I figure if someone is going to go into my garage to steal something he isnt going to walk out with a jointer or t/s hes going for the nails guns ect things he can get in and out quickly and unload fast also. he wouldnt have time to go looking through s bunch of door trying to find something to take.

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   G_B | Aug 22, 2001 03:10am | #5

   *Paul, JimGG has the answer,... I researched for more than a year and built four different tool cabs from ideas gained from this refeence. As for windows, glass or plastic,... if yer gonna do it, use plastic, cause we all know, nothing dangerous ever happens in the shop (never experienced a kick-back and never had a friend loose control of a chip of ply,....right!) And on the other front,... should you have a whole host of cabinets and drawers (the gods should be so nice to good craftsmen) then I fall back on 21 yrs or experience (naval, everything has a place, and there it shall be found) when i touch a drawer or door in my shop, I can tell you whats to be found there,...+/- a tool or two. (Only setback is if a tottie or two has been served and all bets are off,... but then the safety gods frown upon this , so it should not be a thing. Stick witht the first bit of advise rcvd on this note