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This till was just the thing I needed for my shop. I have seen a ton of saw till, plane till, and chisel rack designs over the years but none that include all three. So that's what I set out to accomplish with this design. I built this till from cherry and walnut hardwood to add a ton of...

This is a custom cabinet for storage and display of hand tools. Made from a combination of cherry plywood and solid cherry. Features angled shelves secured with lamello clamex. Lights are just inexpensive low voltage units from Ikea. The most interesting part was design of execution of a bunch...

I have been loving the french cleat system I put in for my power tools so much, that I decided to make one for my hand tools. Before, I was keeping most of them in cases/tool boxes under my workbench but couldn't stand having to root around when I needed a tool. So now everything is visible and...

Here's the Dutch tool chest I recently finished according to Chris Schwarz' Popular Woodworking plans. The chest build was straightforward, simple and fast. Configuring the interior of the tool chest however, was very, very time consuming and required exacting measurements and planning. I wrote...

If you're like me, your workshop space is at a premium. Situated in an L-shaped portion of the garage, I have to make every square inch count. One day, I woke up and decided I was fed up with "drill sprawl." My hand drills and braces were strewn hither and yonder across my pegboard landscape. So...

I decided on a 24″ by 18″ by 18″ dovetailed box. The moldings and bottoms were nailed and glued on, while the top has a split piano hinge as its method of movement. Most of the dovetails and dadoes are splined for strength (because I can't cut a tight dovetail) and I used a L-N low angle block...

I have spent hundreds of hours on this project and only one weekend of it was spent making the shelves and took racks. A little over a year ago I took a big interest in restoring and using vintage hand tools. I have a blog series on here that is dedicated to my restoration work so if anyone is...

Copied this idea from http://lumberjocks.com/projects/62400. Nice way to store some planes. Mine is a lot deeper to accomadate the molding planes on the inside. And lukieB's is a lot nicer wood and construction. But this will work for me untill I can get my hands on some nicer wood. I was a...

A way to hand a hand router on the wall. Just a couple holes and dowels. quick build that works well.