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   Napie | Jul 03, 2007 04:45pm | #1

   I built mine from furniture grade knotty eastern white pine.  I liked the pine for a few reasons, it is light and has plenty of strength and it is pretty traditional as far as old tool chests are concerned and the cost was right.  It is a wall cabinet with ten shallow drawers and adjustable shelves.  The doors are fitted with all manner of devises to hold measuring/marking tools, chisels, etc.  I used walnut to reinforce the edged for the piano hinges and a bunch of horded scraps of exotics to make all the various trim pieces.  It was blast to build, and I’m feeling like I need another one but the wife wants the family room remodel finished…..

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   philjohnwilliams | Jul 04, 2007 06:45am | #2

   just ship all those planes to me and i will store them for you. i may even let you borrow one once in a while.

   -pjw

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   KiddervilleAcres | Jul 04, 2007 04:50pm | #3

   Here's some pics of one I made from some donated birch flooring and 3/8" thick drawer side material from the local Ethan Allen factory. It's joined with my first hand cut dovetails so please don't laugh too hard else you might wake up the dogs. :-)

   All the interior parts, shelves etc., are friction fit into the case as I'm still tinkering with placement. Made the plane shelves so they lie on their sides to allow more storage. Two more are in progress that will be about 2/3'ds the width of this one and will flank each side for more storage. The finish is simply padded on shellac.

   I'm also making a sloped/slanted shelf to go underneath the cabinets for the fast growing woody plane collection.

   Just some ideas for you to consider.

   As for the oak plywood, I'd go for it. I believe that shop cabinets should be something you would not hesitate to place anywhere in your home, not just tacked together solely for purpose. Woodshop projects such as these are also fertile ground for practice too.

   Best of luck in your pursuit.

   Regards,

   Bob @ Kidderville Acres

    

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

   
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   philip_r | Jul 05, 2007 09:55pm | #4

   I agree.  Creating shop furnature is a perfect place to practice and/or show off your skill.

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   CarvinChris | Jul 06, 2007 03:20am | #5

   Hey Jeff,

   Go for it! It's your tool box, make however you see fit.  Personnaly, I like to take leftovers and 'scrap' and turn it into something usefull in my shop. Like others have wrote, it's a good practice project.

   Let the woodchips fly...

   Chris

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   Lataxe | Jul 07, 2007 12:52am | #6

   Chris,

   I agree with your "use the scraps" philosophy. I built a whole bench from odds and also sods.  The virtue of this approach is threefold:

   1) You get to use the scraps to make something other than smoke from the heater.

   2) You make a functional item but learn how to "design" its looks too, with nowt but what's given.  So what if it looks queer - it will grow on you.

   3) Your fine cupboard, being as how it consists of left-overs from many previous projects, is a visible and living history of your past doin's.

   ***

   Now.  I wish to see the Giant Plane for which Bob  has that huge tote hanging on the wall, in his picture of the tool cabinet.  It must be a whoppah!

   Lataxe, shed-comber.

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   KiddervilleAcres | Jul 07, 2007 04:11am | #7

   Aye kind sir,

   But it is nothing more than the tote of a finely fettled Stanley #7 Jointer plane.  It cuts gossamer fine shavings the likes of which I'm sure Mr. Cohen would be proud.

   As for the cabinet it is but a small gracious thank you to the donor of the fine wood from which it is made.  I might add that I used that finely fettled #7 to joint the mitred corners but found it a bit too heavy so am in pursuit of a smaller Jack.

   I'm also intent on pursuing a fine cabriole leg, sometimes known as a scuttle leg by those who abhor them in favor a more straight one.  I have a bit of English roots endowed by my mother as she fancied those legs of yore being from the Queene Anne period. 

   Lest not forget our roots.  Then everybody'd be surfin, surfin USA!

   Fond Regards,

   Regards,

   Bob @ Kidderville Acres

    

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

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   CarvinChris | Jul 07, 2007 04:25am | #8

   Lataxe,

   Hello from across the pond.

   You're exactly right. Using scrap and leftovers is a good way to practice without spending money on good wood. Plus, one can sharpen their skills by trying to make the project as nice a piece as one possibly can.

   My workbenches are made from 2x4 and 2x6 framing lumber, leftover plywood and OSB for shelves. Hanging shelves are ripped down 2x's with 1/4" OSB making the shelves, the sides and valances at the bottom to hide the lights over the one section of my workbench.

   Bob, if you're reading this, that is a nice cabinet you made there. As for putting your planes on their sides, my Grandfather always stored his planes on their sides. He taught me " the plane is going to get dull from use... there's no need to help it along."

   Take care guys,

   Chris.

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   KiddervilleAcres | Jul 07, 2007 01:31pm | #9

   Hi Chris,

   Thanks for the compliment. 

   I made the shelves that way for economy of space, i.e. I can get more planes into the cabinet this way.  I still haven't arrived at a final configuration which is why they are friction fitted so they can be easily moved.  For all I know, they may stay that way forever!

   Next shop project will be clamp storage.  Thanks to another fellow Knothead I now have a whole bunch more to torture wood as my wife calls it.

   Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres

    

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!