7 Drawer Hickory Toolchest

Dear Wifey,

I’m off to buy some great wood and tools to make a toolchest, and when I get back I’ll be in the shop for quite a while.

Of course, you won’t have a problem with this because I gave you such a nice case for your scrapbook punches.

Love,
Hubby

-- Matt Gradwohl, Upper Cut Woodworks, http://uppercutwoodworks.com/

Mathew-

Beautiful case. I was wondering are the dovetail on the outer carcass mitered dovetail. Or did you apply a lipping on the front?

-- Kaleo , http://www.kalafinefurniture.com

Wow that is very nice… Very nice craftsmanship….

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Kaleo, good eye. Yes the front dovetails are mitered. Ian Kirby showed how to do this in one of the recent issues of WWJ. I followed his directions, and they turned out really nice and tight.

I think they dress up the front of the case nicely. Thanks for noticing!

-- Aim high. Ride easy. Trust God. Neale Donald Walsch

Outstanding work on this case! This is right up my alley.

Without visible drawer dividers (with the excpetion of the vertical divider), it appears that your dividers are stopped short of the front, and covered by an upper or lower edge of the drawers…true?

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Matthew -

Very nice work and the ultimate compliment from your wife! Very sharp and crisp work! Congratulations.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

I agree with your wife. Much to nice for the shop. That’s like hanging a Monet in the closet.

I agree with Dennis.

-- Jiri

Excellent craftsmanship. I’m impressed.

so glad to hear that it made it out of the shop! Far too beautiful to not go into the main house.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (https://www.facebook.com/DebbiePribele, Young Living Wellness )

Matthew – Nice job! I can always appreciate nice dovetail work. I feel your pain when it comes to the wife scooping your projects too!

-- Kevin

Thanks everyone for all the nice feedback!

Dorje, you are absolutely correct, the drawer slides are stopped short of the case front and serve as stops for the drawers as well. I was really trying to maximize the amount of drawer space inside the case so I kept the slides as thin as possible. Notice too that for the smaller drawers in the upper half of the case, I left a lip on the bottom of the drawer front, for the bottom drawer I lipped the top of front.

I realized after the case was already assembled, that it would have been much easier to install the slides if they had a small dado to rest in. I should have done that before gluing the case together. Instead, I used glue and 3 small screws to attach the slides to the side of the case.

-- Aim high. Ride easy. Trust God. Neale Donald Walsch

Mathew, very very nice. Personally I think it would look great in shop.

After staring at it, I finally get how you did the horizontals. The recessed and dovetailed vertical divider is unique. Cool.

And the mitered corners are first class.

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Nice.

If it were me, it would have stayed in the shop !

Why didnt you “flock” the drawer interiors?

Nice work!!

-- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso

So you wanted to learn to handcut dovetails so you built a first class chest with half blinds and mitered through joints. Hmmm. I’d say you learned pretty good. It’s a marvelous chest, for sure.

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