>Don't need no stinkin' plans, just a picture for a REAL man! :-)
I want to build a couple of wall-mounted cabinets to hang/store a bunch of hand tools and smaller pieces of equipment...the kind of cabinets that have the swinging doors that also have pegboard storage on the inside of the doors, built-in racks for screwdrivers, chisels, etc. I envision the whole thing to be 4' wide by 3 to 4" high by 6 to 10" deep. I have a general idea in mind, but have never been above "borrowing" from someone else's design. If you have pictures you wouldn't mind sharing, or if you know of a web site with pictures along the line of what I'm looking for, I would appreciate it if you could pass them along.
I retire on March 1, and want to get the "what he wanna do" list going before the "what he GONNA do" list gets too much longer.
>the wall mounted tool box I made is shop shot #550. I had fun with that one. If you are retiring, you will of course have all the time in the world; you might want to look at a poster of the Studley tool chest.
>If you know the number of the shot, go to that page and do a page search for some term in the title or the name of the person that wrote it. For instance, go to the page and search for "yoder" and it should pop right up. Another way is to click on a shot and look at the url in your url bar. Substitute the number you are looking for in place of the number in that url and it should go there.
Here are is a link to my shop fixtures and jigs. Pictures 2 - 4 detail a fastener cabinet that uses a double thick door with peg board on the inside. I made the doors out of walnut with a luan ply skin. The cabinet works really well for me.
>Hi Joe,congrats on your retiriment.I was done on 01/01/07.Not hard at all,heck its easy.Been trying to get shop in order before i start on projects,got a long sheet to do.My LOML now says she has twice the husband around and only gets half the money. Carl
>Sorry Joe none of mine have doors. but I would hang a french cleat all the way around the shop to hang your shelves on. shops are a project in motion what may be practicel today won't be tomarrow. so the ability to move a cabinet easily is a plus. here is a link to my shop tour I need to update that thing my shop looks naked! I now have cleat and shelves all the way around the nander shop. That is scary! I also hang peg board 2' wide on cleats so they can be moved as needed. My original idea was to make the shop portable so I could move tools up to the power tool shop in the garage when weather permitted. That ain't going to happen I'll just get a second set of tools for out there if I ever use power tools again.
Several years ago Wood Magazine did an article on shop storage ideas. Their cabinets were built with no backs. They hung on French cleats flush against the pegboard wall, so the pegboard became the baco of the cabinet. I used the idea in my shop and I like it a lot. I ran a French cleat arouund the top of my shop and attached white peg board to it. One whole wall of my shop is peg board. I cna move the cabinets anywhere I want and still have a peg board. My cabineys aren't the tool cabinets like yo'er are talking about but the idea would work well with your tool cabinets. Here's a photo:
