Tool Cabinet

[Robert Brunke']

Great looking cabinet, looks like you got to use most of the tools in the cabinet for the project!
Regards,
Robert

 

[Travis Porter]

Gorgeous, but come on now!!! You have to give more close up shots and some of the details.

Dimensions? How did you make the boxes? How did you do the foam stuff for those tools in the drawers, etc, etc, etc!!!

 

[Trent Mason]

Now that's impressive! :swoon: BEAUTIFUL job! :thumbs_up:thumbs_up:thumbs_up:thumbs_up:thumbs_up

 

[JimmyC]

The cabinet looks beautiful, but I see one problem in it. There's not enough room in it for more tools:gar-La;.

 

[Ken Massingale]

WOW

Well done

 

[striker]

WOW folks, I was shooting for an “Atta Boy” or two. Your response is a bit overwhelming. At 11 pm last nite the photos were ok, today they really suck – sorry for that. I’ll work or more & better pics tonight.

As for the cabinet, the physical size is 36w x 39h x14 d. My 36” rule was going to fit one way or another! Bigger is always better but space to hang it is tough find for me. I wanted full depth drawers but didn’t want to give up the hanging space on the door interior. So I offset the doors giving me 3” depth toward the top and 1” depth over the drawers. The “saloon doors” and cubbies are concepts borrowed from the FWW /Gary R?? tool cabinet.

The door handles I didn’t know what I wanted until I put it together in a preliminary run. The piano hinges allowed the doors to sag a little which made center gap uneven top to bottom. At that point it was a damage control to hide the ugly seam.

Thanks again for all the wonderful comments.

Stephen

 

[woodArtz]

Awesome job! That is an impressive project. Great work! :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

 

[McRabbet]

Very nice cabinet, Stephen, but I think you need to keep the doors closed all the time to keep sawdust and shaving out and for everyone to admire your beautiful creation!! And that way, you can box up all of those tools -- I especially like that nice L-N plane up top -- and send 'em my way... :gar-La;

BTW, did you use a French Cleat to hang it?

 

[walnutjerry]

Awesome !!!! Striker, that is a calendar pin-up for sure.

Jerry

 

[DaveO]

WOW!!!!!


Dave

 

[striker]

I took a few more photos tonight which hopefully will show a little more detail and answer some of the questions posed.

door handle detail

Drawer

saloon door catch

cubbie insert w/ extra knob

 

[redhawknc1]

That is mighty impressive! Very beautiful and functional! Great job! I hope my skills get to the point that I am capable of work like that! That sort of project has always been on the top of my list......

 

[striker]

Just to answer a few of your questions..........

• The finish is amber shellac over natural cherry with BLO. I put the cabinet in the sunlight at every opportunity I had before going up on the wall. I don't believe the color shellac imparted much difference in the final result. The BLO adds the depth of the figure in my opinion.
• French Cleats hold it on the wall. they are full width top and bottom.
• I have a Leigh dovetail jig but I don't think I'm smart enough to use it! I prefer to handcut the dovetails in which there plenty of practice here.
• Cutting the foam inserts was done with a exacto knife for the most part. Carving drawer insert I spray glued the foam to a wood backer then used a molding head on the table saw to cut 1 inch slots (I don't think it will be in any textbook ..not in the safe practice section anyway)
• The door handles started out as a roughly 2x3x 40 inch piece. I used a molding head in the TS to create the inside shape of the handle on both sides of the length of material, then split the length in half leaving me with 2 rough "J" shaped handles. Using a large roundover bit I routed the outside of the "J". From here, it was just wasting off what I didn't want to use as handle.

Oh , here's a peek at this past weekends messing around. Not too much of a turner....

 

[Douglas Robinson]

Stephen:

I am even more impressed now! The details are terrific!

Doug

 

[SRhody]

Striker,

Thanks for the details! Now I need to only: get more tools, get the wood, get more tools, find a place that has 30 hour days, get more tools, develop more patience and oh yeah, more cool tools.

This is more impressive with each picture and detail. Something to be proud of and handed down thru the generations.

 

[Travis Porter]

Impressive! Most impressive!

Thanks for the detailed updates and pics!

 

[Douglas Robinson]

Stephen:

Did you also use rare earth magents? It looks like there are two of them in the close-up photo of the cabinet opened up.

Doug

 

[striker]

Thanks for the compliments, once again guys.

Doug,
You correct, the 2 magnets hold the doors shut. 2 washers in the doors meet up with the magnets. For less than a buck problem solved.

Stephen

 

[PChristy]

Striker, great job bro - :icon_thum

 

[sapwood]

:err: Er, overwhelming comes to mind.

Thanks for sharing, especially the delightful details :icon_thum

Roger