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Japanese style toolbox. Made of eastern white pine. Really a simple design with hand cut mortise and tenon joints as well as some screwd butt joints.

I had to adapt my apartament floor to be my workbench, since I don't have a workshop where I live at the moment.

I really love the step up from storing my hand tools in a carton box :)

The box is finished with danish oil. Very simple to apply and builds up nicelly. I plan to put same wax paste on top and polish it as soon as I get some bee's wax.

My current workshop:



A short time-lapse of the finishing process:

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Hey!

Good to see you working again!
 

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Nice job on this….you did just fine with what you had….thanks for the post!
 

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Really nice tool box, and yes it is full of the efford you put into it, and have the lightness I love in the Japanese toolboxes.
I love it.
Best thoughts,
Mads
 

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Wow, you can really get a lot of tools in that box. Really nice.
 

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I didn't appreciate the scale of the box until I looked at the time lapse pics.
It is almost a chest!
Great job
 

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Thanks guys. I really need to fing a proper workshop though…

Yes, the box is pretty big. All my handtools only fill less than half of the space. I wonder if I could carry it around myself if it was full.
 

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modify it with an attatchable cart? then you can roll it?
 

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Yeah that's an idea. But I still have a lot of tools to collect to make it filled.
 

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Andrius, it's a real nice box. Looks like it will hold a lot of tools.
 

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Andrrius,

Sometimes being where we are determines what we are. For many years Norm Abrams, of New Yankee workshop was my video mentor. Loved to watch him make a project. I'm sure he was the reason why Delta and Porter Cable sold so many power tools. Growing up I would go into my dad's locked tool room and take his tools to build wooden boats. Even a basic workbench, for the floor. He found me with his tools one day. Got mad, but gave me my own hand tools and cleaned out an area that had a big work bench.

I have a book that translated a Japanese carpenter's training. "it says "find a place under a tree, and set up your tools."

Doesn't matter? Just great to see you making projects.

Power tools and dedicated shops are nice, but it's the wood that is important.
 

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True. That's why I'm doing it. Thanks for the comments, again.
 

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wow! how did you make that there? great :))
 
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