Tool chest/ Tool organization?

[Matthew Lau]

Dear MIMF,

If there's another shutdown, I'm thinking of organizing my tools properly.
Currently, I have them in Systainers or a wooden ship's chest (ironically bought secondhand in Sacramento).

Would you mind showing me your toolchest/cabinet/organization?

-Matt

ps. I realized that I posted a similar thread 5 years ago.

[Darrel Friesen]

Here's one I built for my hand tools using a plan from Fine Woodworking. Cherry, walnut and Baltic birch. The most dovetails I've ever done on a single project. It was just something I always wanted to build. There are obviously much simpler solutions. Many other tools just hang on my wall from wooden pegs.

[DJ Parker]

Absolutely beautiful!

[Bryan Bear]

That looks awesome Darrel

[Randy Roberts]

Like Darrel, too many dovetails. Unlike Darrel, I don't have enough tools fill mine....have to work on that.
I just got sick of going through boxes in the basement for two hours to find what I was going to use for 5 minutes. I'd only built guitars so It's the first rectangular object I had built and had a devil of a time dealing with the idea of right angles. Thankfully I had an old woodworker take me under his wing after I built a rocking chair with him (no right angles there either).
It was just going to be a box with nails to hang things from but it metastasized and took on a life of it's own from there. I first made a mock up out of pink rigid Styrofoam, and if anyone decides to build a tool cabinet I would highly recommend doing so also, it really helps in figuring out placement of stuff.

[Randy Roberts]

My favorite part of it was finding enough matching Brazilian Rosewood violin tuning knobs in a bunch of bins of old knobs at a friend's shop to use for drawer pulls

[Darrel Friesen]

That looks great Randy. Nice work!

[Bob Francis]

Kudos to you both those are inspiring.

[Chuck Tweedy]

Wow, Randy. I think I've seen that before, but it is very impressive every time i see it!
Darrel's is jealousy inducing as well.

[Matthew Lau]

That's some gorgeous work!

I wasn't expecting something like Studley's chest.