I've posted on this before but need to pop up some ideas to generate some ideas or thought. I am planning to build a tool box for keeping certain tools in that I don't want out in the garage with the humidity. These consist of the planes, specialty saws, chisels and some specialty items. I'm trying to reserve the tool chest/work space in the garage for DIY type tools like wrenches and screwdrivers and get the expensive woodworking tools inside. So this tool chest would be somewhat portable. I would keep it in the laundry room and bring it out to the garage when I need it.
This first image shows the basic tool box that has most of the planes in the bottom with two trays that stack on risers along the walls of the box and hold the specialty saws and a mortise chisel. There are handles on either side of the box.
This second image shows a close-up of the planes that will be kept inside. I've done the measurements of the tools and materials and they do fit.
This is a mock-up of the full tool cabinet which comes in three pieces. The top box which has already been featured, a middle two drawer section and a bottom one drawer section. The whole thing rests on top of a plywood stool which I built last Spring. There is a platform that will set on the stool and the tool cabinet will fit to, that is not shown in this image.
These are the tools that will reside in the tool cabinet. They are pretty self evident except red handle item is a mortise chisel.
My concern is that I am making a heavy box to hold these things in and I wanted to see if there were any ideas of a better system. The main things I want to keep in this box are the planes and saws. The other items are flexible. I also have a rabbet plane which is not shown and I couldn't make or find a model of one that matched mine. It would be kept in one of the drawers of the second unit of the cabinet.
BTW - the wood I'm using for the top box is simple white wood. No hardwoods as I just don't have time for that sort of thing. This is not an heirloom piece. But I would like to use some decent joinery on it and not just staple a wood box together.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This first image shows the basic tool box that has most of the planes in the bottom with two trays that stack on risers along the walls of the box and hold the specialty saws and a mortise chisel. There are handles on either side of the box.
This second image shows a close-up of the planes that will be kept inside. I've done the measurements of the tools and materials and they do fit.
This is a mock-up of the full tool cabinet which comes in three pieces. The top box which has already been featured, a middle two drawer section and a bottom one drawer section. The whole thing rests on top of a plywood stool which I built last Spring. There is a platform that will set on the stool and the tool cabinet will fit to, that is not shown in this image.
These are the tools that will reside in the tool cabinet. They are pretty self evident except red handle item is a mortise chisel.
My concern is that I am making a heavy box to hold these things in and I wanted to see if there were any ideas of a better system. The main things I want to keep in this box are the planes and saws. The other items are flexible. I also have a rabbet plane which is not shown and I couldn't make or find a model of one that matched mine. It would be kept in one of the drawers of the second unit of the cabinet.
BTW - the wood I'm using for the top box is simple white wood. No hardwoods as I just don't have time for that sort of thing. This is not an heirloom piece. But I would like to use some decent joinery on it and not just staple a wood box together.
Any ideas would be appreciated.