Tool Box Plans

Re: Tool Box Plans

Tim

>Mark,

I have yet to see a piece of wooden furniture that could not be made entirely with hand tools....

Tolpin's Toolbox book is good.....unless you are the type that needs measured drawings to make something. Jim Stack has a nice tool chest with bow front that has measured drawings.

Tim

2nd Jim Tolpins The Toolbox Book

Jim in Burlington Ontario

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Re: Tool Box Plans

joel

>The Handlyman's book by Paul Hasluck has a large section on tradtional tools boxes - complete with measured scketches and all sorts of worshop funriture.

Library library library

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Nothing beats books, and, if you're lucky, your library will still have some of the stuff from the 1950's that shows some of the between-the-wars traditional boxes - mostly carpenter's rather than cabinetmaker's boxes.

Re: Tool Box Plans

Mike G.

>Fine Woodworking also had a good article several years back on a tool chest. It was issue # 90,Oct., 1991, a cabinetmaker's tool chest by Tony Konovaloff. Also, issue # 48, Sep/Oct 1984 has an article with a large chest that was then painted.

Both of the articles have a semi-measured drawing of the chests. All you have to do is interpolate a little and change some of the measurements to suit yourself.

It's nice to have those old issues of FFW..grin..

Re: Tool Box Plans

Alan Hamilton

>Mark,

Saint Roy of Underhill shows how he makes a tool box in The Woodwright's Workbook and probably in other of his Woodwright's Shop books. As always, it's as much history and karma of wood working as it is a how-to; but he's always a good read.

Alan

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Adam Cherubini, NJ

>I might be able to help, depending on your definition of traditional.

Disappointed with the pseudo-science and revisionism of toolchests in popular press, I contacted Jay Gaynor, then Director of Mechanical Arts at CW (he's been promoted since then). In his book, "Tools: Working wood in the 18th century" Gaynor has several pictures of honest to goodness 18th century chests. These chests are generally simpler than the multi-tilled 19th c cabinetmakers chests. But like so many other things, nothing about their simplicity is arbitrary.

Somewhere I have an article on the subject that I submitted to FWW. I'm not surprised they didn't publish it, but I am surprised they never responded. It probably would be better if I worked with Jay on the article and submitted it to an SAPFM type journal, since its based on the observation of several period chests - I guess its kind of dry and it doesn't include any tool reviews.

If this interests you, I'll e-mail you the article directly, or post it here.

One more thing- Check out "the tool chest of Benjamin Seaton" for some good ideas. But beware- I'm not sure how practical a chest it is. It has a few features I find objectionable (removing molding plane wedges for storage????)

Adam

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Justin W in Ann Arbor, MI

>I, for one, would be curious to read the article... maybe you could post it here?

- Justin

post it!

Bruce, a MN Galoot

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Re: Tool Box Plans

Mike G.

>I forgot to mention that I have a late 19c tool chest. Used to have two, but sold one so I could buy more old tools. The one I have is utilitarian in appearance, about 38" Lx 20" Dx 16" H with 4 sliding tills. It looks to be made of Pine or Poplar with the hidden DTed joinery for the carcass and raised panel lid with saw storage in the 3" deep lid. The other chest was bigger...two people to carry it empty, was made of Mahogany, I think, with six sliding trays or tills, also made of Mahogany. Kind of wish I still had it, but it was much too big for me. I acquired both of them at the same time full of woodworking and machinist tools. One belonged to a patternmaker and the other to a cabinet maker. If Swmbo will let me borrow her digital camera, I'll try to post a pic.

Re: Tool Box Plans

joel

>I would be very interested in reading your article. Please post or email.

On the Seaton chest. It was found packed for long-term storage and shipment. I would guess that once set up in a shop not everything in the case would stay in the case (after all it was ALL the hand tools needed to stock a professional cabinet shop far away from the ironmonger's store - so it was loaded. ) and in actual use it would have been practical.

I have both a mid-late 19th century toolbox and a traditionally configured one I built into a Knack box. I am continually amazed at how much stuff both sensibly and practically hold.

Re: Tool Box Plans

Zack A.

>the april 2004 fine woodworking?

i just finished making that exact same one.

it works beautifully

the article

miami

>If you don't post the article, I'd appreciate a copy by email ...

Thanks,

Clay

Don't be coy Adam

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>It's not like you. Please either post the article or submit it to the WC editorial team for inclusion in the articles section. It deserves to see the light of day and I'm sure quite a few here would be interested in reading it. Unless of course you want to have to send it out a gazillion times to folks as an email.

What is a tool box?

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Mark,

It seems like the answers have drifted in two directions:

Do you mean a box that mounts on the wall, with hinged doors?

Or, do you mean a great chest that sits on the ground, with a top that opens, with removable/sliding storage areas and so forth?

Re: What is a tool box?

Mark Kuzee

>I was requesting info on a tool chest to be precise.

Re: What is a tool box?

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Ahh. There have been lots of articles/plans on the wall type lately, that I have seen. Not much on the chest type.

Good luck with your project, and post some pix!