Hand Tool Cabinet Finished *LINK*

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Terry in Ottawa

>Looks great.

What do you think about arranging planes in a herring bone pattern? One vertical/one horizontal. Would that help fill in the upper triangle? Could an upper cleat be used to retain the toe of a vertical plane and a horizontal plane?

Thanks for posting the pictures. Nice work.

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Steve Kubien

>I really like the overall shape and proportions. The crown moulding is a great touch! A bit different than what others have done but I think thats a nice piece of work.

Thanks for sharing,

Steve Kubien

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>Thanks. I'm sure it will work to hold planes horizontally. I'd make the spacers between the planes taller so that the horizontal planes can't slip through the cleats. The spacers can be made to allow the cleat to be used on four sides if wanted.

Kurt

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>I got the moulding out of the trash pile at a house under construction. Also got a good bit of heart pine that was used as flooring. May use that for a saw till.

Kurt

Quite impressive and handy

Matti Kuikka

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>I see to many holes in that cabinet that will be costly. Looks nice is the black ebonized or painted?

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>It is painted. Actually, it is a very dark green that appears black.

Kurt

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Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Thanks for sharing, Kurt. I like it a lot! When I finish my kitchen I hope to make something like that for myself.

About the open space.....I like it. I don't like filling every piece of real estate with an object of some kind. Things get too busy and cluttered looking.....like my shop ;>) Great job!

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Mike L

>Very nice Kurt. Very, very nice!

Cheers,

Mike

SWEET!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Very nice cabinet Kurt. I like the design and proportions of it. A great job from scavenged materials if I do say so myself. Nice assortment of planes too, but those green spokeshaves scare me.;)

I Love it!

Bill Ward

>Teriffic job. Ernie Miller and Roger Nixon have seen the hand plane catastrophe in my shop. After knocking a #78 off the bench and breaking the nose off, I know I need to do something. You've hit it on the head. Only thing I might change is to make the side wings into hinged doors that close the front up (I still have dirty dust making electron consumers). Thanks for the inspiration!

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>I have a workspace underneath the cabinet, so in my situation, closed doors would make the cabinet stick out too far from the wall. Otherwise, given the space, doors would be nice.

Kurt

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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>Scott,

I hear ya about the spokeshaves. Wouldn't mind replacing them with LN or LV. For paddle making, they have worked out fine for me. When I bought them about 10 years ago, there weren't any other options.

Kurt

broken 78

Mike L

>Hi Bill,

I have an extra #78 body you can have if you need it.

Cheers,

Mike

btw: are you going to the SD PAST meet this weekend?

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Paul M. in San Diego

>Thanks for the heads up on the PAST event here in SD. I forgot all about it this year. I'll have to go to the parking lot sale tomorrow AM.

Really Lousy...

Ed in Arizona

>That Cabinet is not on MY wall

NICE piece of work !!

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Angelo Schembari in Cornwall, NY

>Looks great Kurt! I really like the clips to hold the planes in place. I can just see myself bumping one and having to learn that these planes don't "fly"

Well Paul...

Mike L

>how'd ya do at the old tool swap meet?

Cheers,

Mike

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Paul M. in San Diego

>I didn't make it after all. This is a meeting of professional tool guys, and I haven't found any great deals at previous meets there. I was still thinking of going anyways until I slept in this morning. You snooze, you lose!

Did either you or Bill make it, and did you get any good toys that I missed out on?

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Mike L

>Howdy Paul,

I live north of the Orange Curtain now so it's a bit too much of a drive; especially now that I'm trying to move more into tool user mode rather than tool accumulator. I agree that most of the vendors there are selling at retail prices but there's one seller I've seen there every time I went who unloads boxes of fairly desirable user tools for _very_ good prices. This stuff sells in less than an hour and then he puts out his high ticket items so the window of opportunity is very brief.

Cheers,

Mike