I built this toolbox a while back and never posted it. It's my version of a design from Fine Woodworking magazine. At the time I built it, I was having some financial problems, so I made the toolbox out of my shop scraps. A neighbor of my mine put a wooden desk out to the curb so I recycled the wood and used it in my tool box.I used only what I already had in the shop and the only thing I bought was the piano hinges. Total cost including all materials was $29.00 Here's how I made it.
The case was made from 3/4 inch ply and the joinery is box joints.
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The back of the case is a piece of the lofting I had from a boatbuilding project. I left the lofting of the design show in the back. Looks cool, and reminds me of the Lawton dingy I built a few years ago.
Here is the pile of recycled desk parts that I used in the rest of the project.
Next up was making the drawers. They are all from the old desk. Box joints again.
This is a center marker that I made out of a rosewood scrap, and putting it to use. No measuring.
Layout of the drawers and center divider.
I had a scrap of rosewood left over, so I made the knobs and mortised them into the drawers so that they would not spin.
The finished drawers and hand plane storage cubbies.
The finished toolbox.
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