Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Plane Storage Cabinet/rack
Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>Having moved into the new place last Octover, I'm just now getting some of the stuff unpacked, and arranged for use/storage.
This plane storage cabinet is still a work in progress, but it will probably be quite some time before I get around to putting the face frame and the (Lexan-paneled) doors on it.
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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
>Nice! But I guess you can't buy any more tools:-)JR
Looks great Jim!
Paul in NJ
>Are they all tuned and ready to go to work?
Paul Dzioba
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Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario
>Hi Jim,
A great looking cabinet...warming up in it's new spaces too I see!!
Take care,
Jim
Re: Looks great Jim!
Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>Yes, they are. The 'daily users' though, are on another rack directly over my bench. It's a wire mesh shelf (Closetmaid 16") suspended from the ceiling via four threaded rods, and it holds the 3's, 4's, LV LA smoother, LN85, and several block planes.
With all those planes, believe me the Tormek gets frequent workouts!
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>BTW, because some of the shorter and smaller planes didn't seem stable enough in their niches, I countersunk and epoxied in 5/8" neodymium magnets under them 'for insurance'
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William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>But, it's already full.
Something I noticed, even before trying to count and categorize the plethora of cast iron baileys (even a blue one), is that you obviously fully appreciate the most important difference between LA and Cleveland, and have used that knowledge to your advantage.
Sir W -- Say what?
Clay C in Miami
>"fully appreciate the most important difference between LA and Cleveland, and have used that knowledge to your advantage" ...
Referring to ... LA's reputed absence of old tools in the wild? Something subtler somewhere in that pic?
Clay
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>I suspect Sir W is referring to the tendency of the ground in LA to move around some from time to time, causing things that aren't firmly fastened down to reduce their gravitational potential by falling to the floor, whereas Cleveland suffers from this problem only during the annual installation dinners at the Rock and Roll Museum.
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ray k
>Very nice storage unit. But I can't get over how many planes you have. I'm curious how often do each one gets used/month. Even if you don't pull them off the rack, it's still great to have all those planes and know you can use them if you need to. I guess I have something to strive for. And being that I still live in LA, the magnet idea is definitely a good one.
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>I use them a lot, but must admit that some of them are seldom used.
One luxury, though, is beingable to start a large planing job, and just switch planes when one gets dull, instead of running to the sharpening bench every fifteen minutes. Four or five like planes, all sharpened, adjusted, and ready to go, make the job go a lot quicker - at least until it's time to start 'batch sharpening' them all...
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Jim in Burlington Ontario
>I really like that style of cabinet. It's similar to Hank Gilpins in FWW with more planes. Great Cabinet
Nice collect...errr...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>Group of users you have there Jim. Do you use the transitional ones? How do you like them
Also what are the little things hanging on the wall above these evil green spokeshaves and small planes?
They look like fences to 78's to me
Nice cabinet, it's good to see you getting the shop in order.
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>The two 35's are among my favorite snothers. On one, I put a quarter inch thick Lignum Vitae sole (many years ago), and the other has an ebony patch in front of the mouth to close it up a bit. Both are a pleasure to use.
Those items on the wall above the Kunz POS spokeshaves (They were a gift; otherwise they's be long gone ;-) ) are indeed 78 fences. The four 78's are on the shelf just below them.
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glh
>Nice rack, but what are you going to do when you you get more--build another. Great collection.
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Mike L
>I thought it was the difference in real estate prices between Orange County, CA and Mahoning County, OH. Only Bill Gates can afford that much wall space in O.C.
Cheers,
Mike - in O.C. planning on building a *much* smaller wall cabinet than Jim's fine example (also with added protection for seismic disturbances)
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>but what are you going to do when you you get more--build another.
Sure. Why not? I've still got a lot of blank wall space!
Seriously, though, I'll probably be selling off a few from time-to-time, but will also be looking toward replacements or additions, too. There may well be an 'annex' in the future. Who knows?
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William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>Yup, Bill's got it right. It's the earthquakes that concern me. I've been through one substantial one, and that's plenty. I'll put up with hurricanes, hail and lightning, tornados, blizzards, nor'easters, or swarms of greenheads any day, but I don't like it when the ground starts bouncing around.
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Mike L
>Yep, quakes are a constant source of worry if you store valuable and fragile tools with a lot of potential energy. Strangely, I've been through several quakes (including being pretty darn close to the Northridge epicenter) without a single incidence of personal damage. Then again, the Whittier quake toppled LOML's upright piano (long before I knew her); so they _can_ jostle stuff about.
Just so Jim doesn't get to careless in his seismic-free zone, I grew up just down the road from Austintown and back in May of '85 a nasty tornado did some serious damage to my hometown. A tornado can pick up your entire shop and deposit it who-knows-where. It happened to nearly every detached garage on my street (although most of their contents were left unscathed).
I've seen the results of quakes and tornados and they're equally brutal to those affected. But I'd take either one over swarms of flesh-eating insects!
Cheers,
Mike
What you grow up with, maybe
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>We've never discussed where you were raised, William, so I could be way off, but I think some of it has to do with where one grows up. When I lived in the Midwest, I could always feel my head kind of collapsing onto my shoulders during tornado season, and I still shudder when I see twister photos - they just look so evil! Earthquakes, though - if it happens, it happens, and it's possible to minimize the odds of damage (something I haven't gotten around to...) if you reinforce your house right and nail down the tools so they don't dance a jig.
Bill, one of that small, exclusive group known as "California natives"
To the right of the Kunz spokeshaves *LINK*
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Is that a box scraper to the right of the Kunz green meanies? Do you find you have a use for it? Should I regret trading mine away?
Blood and Gore on box scrapers
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William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>I was born in Ohio, and grew up in the middle of Lighning Alley in central Florida. I've experienced lots of really bad weather, and near misses. I never lost a roof to a tornado or a hurricane, but have seen several go, really close-by. I've lost count of the number of tornados, funnel clouds and water spouts I've seen. I've lost lots of electronics and trees to lightning, but no dogs, cats or family members. The number of bolts close enough that there was no discernable time lag between the flash and the boom must number in the hundreds. The biggest earthquake I've been in was 6.9, in Taipei. So far, I've only been stranded by one flood, but again suffered no property damage. Also, so far no pyroclastic flows, no tsunamis (although I've been on the beaches at Crescent City, Hilo and Patong), no mudslides, no avalanches and no meteorites, either. Remember, "close" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Knock on wood.
Hooks?
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>Are those grey hooks the kind meant for use in pegboard?
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>Are those grey hooks the kind meant for use in pegboard?
Yeah, they are. I just removed the plastic screw and cut the protrusions off the back of them, then screwed them to the plywood backing. Pretty neat, huh?
They hold the spokeshaves and 80's/82 quite nicely.
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>Is that a box scraper to the right of the Kunz green meanies? Do you find you have a use for it? Should I regret trading mine away?
Yes, it is a #70.
No, I've never found a use for it. It's only there because it was a gift, and I never sell or otherwise dump a gift.