tool cabinet – Page 7

The Tool Cabinet Begins

Today I started milling boards for the tool cabinet. The cherry I have is already milled to 3/4″. I just needed to match, joint, flatten and glue up.

I also had a visitor ..

Shop Cat came in for a different perspective on the world.

All and all a fun day.

I can do this right???

This afternoon I started laying things out. The tool cabinet poster went up on the wall where the real cabinet will ultimately reside.

I started laying out all the cherry and trying to match up pieces for gluing. Most sides of the cabinet will require gluing 3 boards together and the shelves 2 boards. Four sides and FIVE shelves.

Then there’s the back which will use up the remaining tongue and groove fir I have left. And then there’s five drawers to be made.

And finally I got out the panels for the door fronts. These are book matched oak and 3/4′ thick that I’ll need to take an 1/8 to 1/4″ off of so they’ll be proper door panels.

By the time it was all over, I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. So I ran upstairs to look at the newly completed bathroom wall cabinet .. I think I can, I think I can ….

This is the final design. The bottom 3 slots will have drawers in them (not drawn). Cubbies on the second and third shelf will go all the way across the cabinet (not drawn out) and are spaced for individual planes.

No more procrastination ..

I’ve not been likin’ the wasted space in my tool cabinet design. So I took as step back and redesigned. I took a second look at the Chris’s wall hanging tool cabinet and this is what I’m callin’ my final design.

Some light tools will hang on the doors, but most will reside in drawers so I can carry them to the work bench, which is actually further away than I’d like.

I also drew it out on paper and laid tools in their spot. I used my Anarchist Tool Chest list to visualize where the tools would go.

I’m declaring this done and am finally going to start building.

Tool Layout

Laid out all my tools to see how they will fit in the cabinet. The lower row will be the cubbies for the individual planes. The upper part will hold the tools in the shown position.

Other tools will hang on the cabinet sides and the interior of the doors.

Distraction

Bought a board yesterday to complete the desk top I’ll be making some time in the future. I already have two 12 to 13″ quarter sawn mahogany boards and need one more to finish out the top. The great news is my bench handled this easily as I had planned it would.

I’m still working on the tool cabinet sketch up. After discovering that my slanted platform wasn’t going to work, I started redesigning.