BURR!!! A good day to be in the shop..pics...
Terry Hatfield
>Howdy everyone,
Well, that big 'ole No.7 not having a home got solved today. I went out to the shop this morning armed with a bunch of pictures I printed of other folk's plane storage ideas to try and figure it out. I did'nt have a clue what I was going to do for more storage but I was determined to figure out something that would be fairly easy, cost zero and allow for expansion in the future.
I think I came up with a pretty good solution. The back of the bench has 4 doors. The center ones are right behind the drawers on the front so there was about 11" of room left over that I put an adjustable shelf in when I first built the bench. I used the area to store finishing supplies, glue etc...
I emptied all that stuff out of the bench and jambed it onto other shelves leaving this pretty good sized hole.
I used a scrap piece of 3/4" white oak ply to build an angled back for the left over hole. It's tilted back at a 15 deg. angle but the planes smaller than No.5 seemed a bit unstable to me. I thought about making cleats as others have done but I happened to remember that I had some 1/2" rare earth magents!!! I drilled holes 1" below the end of the toes of the No.3, No.4 and LA block and epoxyed the magnets in the holes so they are barely proud of the base. They worked great!!! They have just enough pull for the planes to be vey stable yet not so much that you have to wrestle them out. You can see them in this pic.
And here is the done deal. I still have some room left for more goodies!!! The smaller planes could be stacked if need be in the future. The dividers are attached with a few 5/8" brads so they can come out easily too.
Obviously I had to revamp the insert in the drawer where the planes were while I was at it. :D All the planes except for the newly aquired No. 7 were in here originally. I really wanted my chisles in this drawer anyway. :D I built a little divided box to hold them. I actually have expansion room in here now too!!!!
All in all a good day in the shop.
Thanks for looking!!!
Terry