Tool cabinets? Here's mine, WIP
Posted Dec 11, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC
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I dont even know how to start making one of these
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Ok, here are the steps: secure your stock of choice, size to thickness, rip to width, smooth and joint, cut to length, join. It's just as simple as baseball, you throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball, you run. :-)
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hah, I get the basics, but casework is something I've rarely dealt with
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Hey, there's always a first time for everything. Start small, with a smaller cabinet, perhaps 1' by 2', for measuring and marking tools, then progress to larger pieces. After all, its only shop furniture. Pretty soon you'll be making a china cabinet for the house. Baby steps build skills!
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Yeah i have a rabbet plane now so I can make some better than butt joint carcasses. Really want to explore casework but a small box for marking tools is a great idea
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Awww, that's cheating. :-)
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This is my hand tool cabinet, which is a combined plane storage and saw till. The doors have plenty of storage but the internals are still missing. The horizontal bars in the doors are french cleats for attaching tool holders.
The carcase is pre-glued pine panels, the drawer fronts and door panels are european oak (quercus robur). The oak pieces are particularly nasty pieces of wood (branches, knotty stuff) that any sane person would have burned, but I took the effort of planing them.
The front panels had bad cracks and they barely held together after resawing to thin panels. I put A LOT of hide glue to stabilize them and then put in a few butterflies. Now they're secure in the frame and panel style doors.
Carcase, doors and drawers are joined with dovetail joinery, shelves and dividers are in housings.
Where does the lone drawer with block plane and chisels belong?!?! WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?!?!
They're probably going to go in the doors when he's done putting in the internals there.
Oh. <Puts down pitchfork and torch>
That tool till on the table is not a part of the cabinet. When the doors are done the stuff in the till will move there.
I spent more time than I am willing to admit trying to figure out if there was some secret compartment or something.