Well after some time away from my shop because of the cold weather I did get back to this cabinet. I finished carving the sides to the best of my limited carving ability.While I was doing that I put the door panel and the case back in the veneer press, then I put the case together,
and then finished the door after it was out of the press.
I had to figure out how I wanted to fit the tools I have in the cabinet so I laid them out on some brown paper to give me some idea of were I was going.
Anyway I made a few little wood blocks to hold the tools but they looked just to plain so I carved little feathers on them.
All that was left to do was put some finish on it and put it together,” So far so good! Although that’s what the blind man said somewhere around the 10th floor, when he walked off the roof.” or so said my buddy Lee Jesberger when I started, that’s when disaster struck. I was putting on a couple coats a lacquer on the pieces and had them outside of my shop because it was so nice outside and I had the door propped up against the cabinet while it was drying, I looked at it and said that doesn’t look good but I left it anyway. I was in my shop working on something else and heard a crash outside and went out to find the door, cabinet case, and back panal all lying on the ground. The door had landed on the corner and just crushed the corner, the case was cracked up the side and all of them looked like I was going for that distressed look people put on reproduction furniture. I cleaned them up as best I could and carried on as this was just a cabinet to hold tools there was no reason to freak out although I was a little disappointed. Well hear is the finished cabinet and the end of all the drama that goes on in my little shop in Albion Pennsylvania.
Hear are a couple shots of the finished sides
Hear are a couple closer shots of the inside I did plan on having my #8(or #7) plane before I finished with this but I got carried away a bought some more carving chisels instead so that is why there is some big wide open spaces.
I really had fun building this little cabinet despite my little tragedy near the end but I learn a little something with every project I do. My only concern now is when I moved it full of tools I realized the weight of it and the back panel is only made of 1/2” plywood, I hope it can support all the tools it will hold. Now I just have to fill all those empty spaces with the tools I have planed, and I think I want to build a matching one for the other side of my bench for some of my carving chisels and other tools maybe in an American Bald Eagle theme.
-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)






















8 comments so far
Don "Dances with Wood" Butler
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posted 220 days ago
Paul,
Nice job!
Congrats on a job well done.
Don
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Scott Bryan
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posted 220 days ago
Paul, this turned out to be a gorgeous tool cabinet. I daresay most of us would simply have opted for pine or birch plywood since this is “just a piece of shop furniture”. But I have come to appreciate the idea that shop furniture can also look good as well. Cherry happens to be my personal favorite and you did well on this build.
Thanks for the inspiration.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
johnpoolesc
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posted 220 days ago
good looking work, all the way around
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3fingerpat
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posted 220 days ago
Geat looking cabinet. The only problem is that you will need to build another one to hold the rest of the tools you are bound to accumulate along the way ;o)
-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"
Julian
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posted 219 days ago
Paul, that’s a great addition to the shop. I like the personal touched you added.
-- Julian, Park Forest, IL
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 219 days ago
Hey Buddy;
I said it before, I’ll say it again;
Great job!!!!
Lee
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martin007
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posted 204 days ago
wow! beautiful
great work!
-- Martin, Gatineau, Québec
a1Jim
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posted 204 days ago
Outstanding tool cabinet one of the best out there.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com