Anyone seen good plans for handplane storage?

I’ve found that cardboard boxes work fine. You have to move them around to find the one you want. But, it usually doesn’t slow you dowb too much.

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Canadian Woodworking had a plan a few months back, but it’s just a case with area to store tools. Nothing really requiring a plan. Here’s something that you might be able to measure off of…

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

Sorry, no plans that I can point you toward. I have the angled board with difeined spaces you referred to, but I’ve seen “cubbie” holes (like a plain bank of cubblie holes for office mail) for smaller block planes.

I’ve also seen what I would call two “end caps” mounted to a wall and they’re spaced/sized for the particular bench plane. The toe of the plane slides up underneath the top “endcap” that is shaped in such a way it holds the sides but has a place for the knob to clide up in the endcap while holding the metal beside the knob on the toe. Once the plane clears the top of the lower endcap for the heel of the bench plane, the heel slides down behind the lower endcap. The lower endcap isn’t very deep though and the toe is held. So essentially, the planes hang vertically on your wall and you don’t commit the mortal sin (for old tool enthusiasts) of drilling a hang hole in your plane. To remove it, you grab the tote push it up until it clears the lower endcap, tilt the heel out and slide the plane down out of the top end cap. Does that make sense?

I’ve not seen these endcaps up close, only in pictures and I don’t have a plan. But it shouldn’t be hard to figure out if I’ve painted any kind of word picture for you that helps you see what I’m trying to describe.

-- Paul, Texas

These are from RobBrophy from woodnet forums.

Jim Boyd from Woodnet

R Sully from Woodnet

Ahhhh…this is what I was looking for….I had those in favorite links…here’s the thread where most appear….Hand Tool Storage Cabinets

That should give you some ideas!

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

Now, THIS ONE I think is fantastic!

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

I think Mot has posted all the one’s I’m aware of. :^(

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now I know why I cannot buy sencond-hand hand planes here in Europe – You have the worls supply in NORTHER AMERICA.

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oh my!! Wayne, if you don’t find a solution out of those pix, then I think you better just … .. I don’t know how to finish that sentence haha.

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Thanks everybody. The Jim Boyd example is close to what I had in my mind. I may build a smaller version of it. All of them are wonderful.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

This one was in FWW recently.. I’m going to build it this winter and then go on a quest to fill it up.

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignPDF.aspx?id=27574

That Studley chest is amazing. I have it as my screen background.

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I have a great idea but I’m not going to tell you until I get over being jealous that you have more of them than me.

-- Steffen

I’m guessing you see some pretty nice stuff in Mr. Maloof’s shop.

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