MIMF

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.

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.

Absolutely beautiful!

That looks awesome Darrel

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.

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

That looks great Randy. Nice work!

Kudos to you both those are inspiring.

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.

That's some gorgeous work!

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