Drill bit storage cabinet.

So many good ideas – so little time to make them. Thanks, Mark.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

I like these kids of projects. Good job, Os.

-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

You said it, Don. If I made them all I’d need a new shop. LOL.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Mark -

Very nice addition to the shop!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Nice! I need one of those. Can anyone lend me some wall space?

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Something would come in most handy. This would be a nice addition to any shop.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Good looking cabinet. If you hadn’t said anything, I would have never thought twice about the small cleats versus dadoes cut into the sides for the pull-out sections. Although my thought would be that the way you did it might work a little better since you used solid wood with grain in one direction, rather than a slot in plywood with the grain pattern in both directions.

-- Rick - Spring, TX

Thanks, Rick my goof is now a plus! Mot, I have no wall space to lend, but if I did you’d get some. I appreciate the comments, everyone.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Nice use of you adaptive imagination….and the cabinet looks good too…

-- Sawhorse - Sulphur Springs, TX - www.sawhorseworkshop.com

I’m with Mot. I would love to build one, just where would I put it? ShopNotes has some good stuff.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Os, can you explain more about the “make a box and cut the door off” benefits. I am not sure that I completely understand.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Very handy!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

MsDebbieP, if you make a box out of plywood (as this project is made) or solid wood, then you know that it is square and the wood grain will match when you cut the door off of the box. Say you make a box 6” deep and you want your door to be 2” deep. Once your box is assembled and the glue has dried you would set up your table saw fence or band saw(which may prove to be a problem, depending on the size of your box and the ability of your band saw) to make a 4” cut. Now, you must make sure that there are no nails (brads) in the way of your cut…you wouldn’t want to ruin a blade on your first pass, or second, or third or fourth for that matter. You could probably do it with a circular saw, but it would require a lot of care that the cut is made in the exact same spot on all four sides. With a table saw you would set the depth of cut just deep enough to go through the material and the fence at 4” as stated before. Make a pass on one of the longer sides of the box, then another across the top or bottom, then the top or bottom which ever is left. You may want to have some small wedges to put in place so the kerf does not close in when making the second and third cuts and definitely when making the final pass, otherwise the blade can get pinched and kickback will occur. Once finished with the last cut you have two halves (equal or not) and the wood grain will match perfectly. Doing it the way the magazine had it made it a lot harder to keep square and match the grain. I hope this makes sense.

-- Jesus is Lord!

me thinks me got it!!!
it’s already “perfect”.. and then you remove the door rather than adding the door and trying to make it perfect.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great cabinet Mark. be careful that Mot doesn’t come through the Cyber line and pick up yours.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson, I put a Spid-ato Man fire wall on my computer! LOL.

Debbie, I believe you’ve got it. I’m glad, I was affraid that I wasn’t making sense.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Hi os;

That’s always my biggest fear too.

Good work!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Thanks, Lee!

-- Jesus is Lord!