Show me your tool cabinet

[MikeJ]

I want to build a cabinet for storing my hand tools and I am looking for some ideas. Show me yours and tell me what you like and dislike about it and what changes if any you'd make to it.

MikeJ

[Belle City Woodworking]

This is my all time Favorite:



it's Chris Beckvoort's Cabinet.

Good luck on choosing and building your tool cabinet.

John

[Dimner]

I'm very interested in seeing what other's have but here are 2 threads to start with:


Thread 1

Thread 2

[SawdusterII]

Here is a not so good pic of mine.



What I would do differently is to make it larger to hold more tools. I designed it to hold my most often used planes, shaves, and the like, but, as you can see it is already suffering from over crowding. I built it before I got the bench shown in the pic and have a peg board overflowing with other smaller hand tools plus a rack for my chisels at the old bench. Then a seperate till for my handsaws.

And a rack for my older auger bits (seen in the lower right of saw till pic) which I don't use since I got a boxed set that hadn't ever been used. And a larger peg board on another wall to hold the bigger planes, tailed tool accessories, turning tools and who knows what else. And I still have more tools than places to put em.

What I do like about this design is the drawers. Hold all sorts of little tool parts and small stuff like DT markers etc.

[Bob Zajicek]

Here's mine.

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This one took about a weekend, not including the saw till. I wanted to build a regular cabinet with doors, but realized I'd be looking at 2010 with my schedule. This is a stop gap solution, and has worked very well the last 9 months it's been in use. I can still add the doors at some point when time permits. HTH.

[dogwood1300]

How do you like your Freud hand saws?
I've picked up an 8" Freud brass back saw, for $1.

[Bob Zajicek]

I like them a lot. I had them sharpened professionally (by Tom Law) a couple of years ago and they cut very well. The DT saw I had Tom re tooth and sharpen rip and it cuts as well as my LN DT saw. I paid about $75 for my set of five over 20 years ago, so you got a heck of a deal.

[dogwood1300]

But you've got yours sharpened by Tom Law!
I haven't used mine yet, the Disston #4 I got from the bay served me good.
(Being a iron back, the #4 is not as heavy as the Tyzack, or this Freud).

Also grabbed some sheet metal backed back saws, all I want to say is
what a pitty. I can bend the saw (including the sheet metal back) with
two fingers. Not sure what I am going to do with them.

[Maestro]

I like this one from the Wall Cabinet contest recentely. Wish I had done it!;-)

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The one John posted in nice also.

[HaroldC]

Who is Tom Law?