Hand tool storage....?

Re: Hand tool storage....?

Barry Irby

I enjoy my shop too. My drawer fronts made form sink cutouts may be severely lacking in color coordination, but I remember which job they came from and where I got them. Funny, I was thinking about the ones that came from my friend's soffit. He turned 81 recently and moved to Florida at his wife's insistence. I asked him if he were excited about moving to Florida and he burst into tears and said he was going there to die. I may send him a picture and remind him I still have the souvenir.

Re: Rare Earth Magnets

Kevin French

I use the REMs the same way for the hex wrenches and whatnots on my stationary tools. I also have 6 magnet bars I use to hold all my screw bits, punches, my low-end chisels, and any other tool I need readily and don't want to have buried in a drawer.

Re: A product of circumstance

Hank Knight

My walnut wall seem like an extravagance; but, actually, it's a product of circumstance. I bought a lightly used Hammer A3-32 jointer planer from a local woodworker who was moving to California. He offered me about 75 BF of walnut at a price I couldn't refuse because he didn't want to haul it to the left coast. It sat in a pile on the floor of my tiny shop where I tripped over it many times a day for a couple of months while I built my redial arm saw bench. My shop walls are poured concrete and originally, the wall above the bench was white pegboard - a pretty dismal combination.

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When I finished the bench, I looked at the wall and the walnut pile on my shop floor and a light went off in my dim brain. I hauled the walnut to a friend's millwork shop. He milled it into T&G paneling and I nailed it up on the wall. It changed the whole ambiance of my shop; it's a much warmer and more inviting place now. I'm much happier with it as wall paneling than as an annoying obstacle on my shop floor.