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Underbench cabinet: drawers 3 and 4

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Underbench cabinet: drawers 3 and 4

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Underbench cabinet: drawers 3 and 4

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)


Moving across to top right. This is a drawer for wheel cutting gauges ...


I went through many ideas before coming up with this design. Simple, but effective for access and keeping the gauges from moving around.


Two Tite Marks with fine adjusters and two Veritas gauges (these were a steal several years ago - Anniversary gauges in stainless steel. Brilliant!). The gauge at the front is one I built. My idea of Veritas-going-Japanese :)


Everything is removable. The slots for the arms were made with a fluting blade in a Veritas Combination Plane ...


Drawer #4 was much more work. Much more.

This is the middle drawer, second row. The drawer above holds large squares. This drawer holds more squares, small ones for joinery ....


The only way to keep these from moving around in a drawer is to french fit them ...


The little "dot" at the top end is a rare earth magnet. This is to keep extra blades (for the squares) from getting lost.


This is where I moved the Veritas sliding square. There is a Vesper small double square along with a similar Starrett. These are so useful for checking dovetail sockets. Below is my favourite double square, a 4" Moore & Wright, along with a 4" vintage Browne & Sharpe machinist square.

Now slide the top tray away, and below are large and small Starrett dividers, and a vintage Starrett compass ...


Again french fit to prevent any sliding around ...


I managed to get all these rules inside the drawer - Starrett and Mitutoyo in metric and imperial ...


Easier to stack them this way ...


Two more drawers, and I am going to call it quits for a while. Lynndy has orders for night stands.

I hope you are still having fun! :)

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Paul Leuba

Just beautiful work!

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Yonak

This work bench should win a prize for custom design.

Derek, what's your joinery method for the drawers ? Specifically, the face to the sides .. how thick are the drawer sides ?

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

Yonak, everything is dovetailed .... half blinds at the front and through dovetails at the rear. The drawer bottoms are solid wood. Jarrah at the front, Tasmanian Oak for the rest. The sides are 6mm thick, the front 18mm.


Drawer bottoms attacked via slips with Jarrah strips for extra bearing surface and hardness ...


Regards from Perth

Derek

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Yonak

Thanks for the detailed answer, Derek. Yours is an incredibly meticulous and customized build. I can only ogle.

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John Jardin

Yep, too much time on your hands!!

Derek, your work is the pinnacle of what many of us strive for. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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