Very interesting. It’s very well made - I use those techniques myself a lot - indeed, I’ve just finished for the day with the last job applying Osmo to my wall- hanging router bit storage - with inspiration from the one that Stumpy Nubs showed on his channel. I’m moving into a new workshop at the moment. My first job is to make bespoke tool and equipment holders/carts etc. We each work differently and like our workshop to be organised to match that. I hate tools getting dusty and therefore bought a lot of secondhand office cabinets with tambour doors. I then fitted draw slides to the bottom and the top with plywood vertical “drawers”. I now slide out whatever wall the tools I need are on; finish, slide the wall back and pull the tambours closed. With chisels, I like to work with the whole set of chisels in front of me so that I can reach for the 6mm or 10mm or whatever. So, my chisel racks are more like upright trays. To ensure the chisels don’t move or drop out, I hide rare earth magnets beneath a home cut veneer. There is a balance for me on what timber I will use and how much attention I am going to give making a chisel rack. I use whatever off cuts I have - so one rack might be plywood and oak; the next one walnut and sycamore. I keep in mind that I want a rack pleasing to my eye but there is a limit - I wouldn’t go as far as dovetails for instance. It seems such a waste to use some great veneer or figured timber on something that is a tool. A
Very interesting. It’s very well made - I use those techniques myself a lot - indeed, I’ve just finished for the day with the last job applying Osmo to my wall- hanging router bit storage - with inspiration from the one that Stumpy Nubs showed on his channel.
I’m moving into a new workshop at the moment. My first job is to make bespoke tool and equipment holders/carts etc.
We each work differently and like our workshop to be organised to match that. I hate tools getting dusty and therefore bought a lot of secondhand office cabinets with tambour doors. I then fitted draw slides to the bottom and the top with plywood vertical “drawers”. I now slide out whatever wall the tools I need are on; finish, slide the wall back and pull the tambours closed. With chisels, I like to work with the whole set of chisels in front of me so that I can reach for the 6mm or 10mm or whatever. So, my chisel racks are more like upright trays. To ensure the chisels don’t move or drop out, I hide rare earth magnets beneath a home cut veneer. There is a balance for me on what timber I will use and how much attention I am going to give making a chisel rack. I use whatever off cuts I have - so one rack might be plywood and oak; the next one walnut and sycamore. I keep in mind that I want a rack pleasing to my eye but there is a limit - I wouldn’t go as far as dovetails for instance. It seems such a waste to use some great veneer or figured timber on something that is a tool.
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Brilliant!
THX 👍