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Just finished my latest tool cabinet. I am fairly new to hand tools, and I set out to cut all of the joinery for this cabinet with hand tools. I found the cherry for the carcass to be very unforgiving when cutting through dovetails by hand, so I switched to box joints on the table saw for the main case (they also proved to be tougher than I expected). I did, however, manage to cut the dovetails for the drawers by hand.

Thats it for the confession, now for the details of the cabinet. It is 32” high, by 32” tall with doors shut. It totals about 11” deep also with doors closed. The main carcass, doors and top are cherry. The door panels and back panel are baltic birch ply, and I added maple veneer to the outside of the doors. The interior tool wells are made from bb ply and cherry. The drawers have cherry fronts, aspen sides and back, and bb ply for the bottom. The door and drawer pulls are cocobolo.

I tried to leave some room for expansion in the future (both in the doors and left side of interior). The missing plane spot is for a low angle jack, that has since been added. I have also added a good combo square and a tenon saw to hang inside the doors.


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SteveKorz

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posted 160 days ago

Wow!! that is very nice. You’ve done a fantastic job, that is a great way to store all those nice tools. Did you dream this design up, or are there similar plans somewhere? It looks great!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

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gator9t9

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posted 160 days ago

Its a Beauty ….great job …pix are very small and hard to get a real good view ….

thanks so much for sharing

-- Mike in Bonney Lake " If you are real real real good your whole life, You 'll be buried in a curly maple coffin when you die."

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CharlieM1958

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posted 160 days ago

Looks great! We could stand for the photos to be a little larger, though. :-)

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

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GaryB

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posted 160 days ago

Thanks for the kind words. I just combined lots of other cabinets I have seen and fit it for my tools. I’ll repost the pics in larger format. I’m working on a matched lower chest for under the bench, and will post pics soon.

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thetimberkid

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posted 160 days ago

Great work!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Freddo

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posted 160 days ago

Awesome job – enjoy your piece! I started really using hand tools in the last few years (I mean really using them to fine tune and fit parts). Once you learn to keep them sharp and use them accurately, you’ll wonder how you got along without them. PLUS… there is truly a wondeful thing about working wood with hand tools (i.e., without power and the extra noise). I hope this doesn’t start a rant thread – I’m NOT an anti-power tool user…just love a sharp chisela nd hand plane :)

I wish I had the wall space for a cabinet like that. Maybe one day…

-- God bless! Freddo (Northern - NJ) Our Creator designed us to create - so use WOOD!

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Jon3

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posted 160 days ago

I’d love to see some bigger photos, if you can.

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Chris

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posted 160 days ago

Very nice work… Was this your own design?

-- Chris

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Scott Bryan

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posted 160 days ago

This is a wonderful storage area for your tools. Congratulations on the dovetails that is a major hurdle for most woodworkers.

Nice design and you chose a nice combination of woods.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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WudWrkr

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posted 160 days ago

That’s a beauty GaryB and it looks like you have a nice selection of hand planes to keep it company.

-- Steve - "Dang, no matter how many times I run it through the planner it's still too thin!"

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GaryK

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posted 160 days ago

That’s very nice. I could use something like that also.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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GaryB

21 posts in 160 days


posted 160 days ago

Ok, new larger pics are up, will also add more with “another tool cabinet” post.
Thanks for the positive feedback.
Gary

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jcees

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posted 160 days ago

Sweeeeeet!

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

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blackcherry

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posted 160 days ago

Very nice home for a sweet collection…Blkcherry

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Safetyboy

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posted 160 days ago

“Fairly new to hand tools”, and you already have a full complement of planes & saws? I’d say you’re doing all right!

I was just thinking I need to make a tool cabinet myself – thanks for the inspiration (though right now I’m thinking I’m just going to rough one out of ply to get started, see what kind of space I need, etc, and then later on build the “ultimate” cabinet…)

-- -- Kevin in Mentor, Ohio

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Dorje

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posted 160 days ago

Super!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

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smitty1

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posted 156 days ago

Very Nice work Gary and a good start on the hand tool collection. I can tell you from experience, once you start down the Neanderthal Path , storage expansion will be an ongoing project.
Keep up the good Work,
Smitty

-- Smitty, Alabama, http://www.firstdesignwoodworking.com/

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matt garcia

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posted 151 days ago

I love it!!! I especially like the tilt on the plane backboard!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

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Texasgaloot

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posted 130 days ago

Have you been given the secret Galoot handshake? (It’s kind of hard to do, what with our knuckles all botched up from dragging on the ground…)
You catch on fast, Grasshopper…
Excellent work!

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

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ND2ELK

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posted 85 days ago

Hi Gary

Great looking tool box. You are my kind of guy. Everything has a place and everything in its place. You did a beautiful job on this piece. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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