Hand tool cabinet-very long, lotsa pix

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Excellent Tony! Great craftsmanship, design and materials use! Thanks for posting!

[David Fried]

Picture 1 - Very nice - looks great!
Picture 2 - SPRONG!!! Amazing how much fits inside and looks well planned.

Greats pics - no, you can't post too many! Thanks.

[Bruce Page]

Beautiful cabinate Tony! I’m going to make one of those if my collection of planes & chiseles ever gets big enough. (I saved your post just in case )

[Eric Coyle]

Nice cabinet Tony.

Don't blame you bout being concerned about it coming crashing down. Lotsa weight there. Lotsa pricey tools too. Would a cuppla extra screws give you more piece of mind?

Eric
in Calgary

[Mike Holbrook]

I hung some kitchen cabinets not long ago. The wall was sheet rock as yours appears to be. My studs did not turn out to be in the best positions so I used a few E-Z Ancor's, available at the Depot. I started using E-Z Ancors quite a few years ago and have had very good results with them. They are like very wide screws with very wide threads, "self-drilling drywall anchors". You simply screw the big lug into the sheet rock and then run a normal screw, provided, threw the cabinet etc. into the lug. They are rated to hold up to 50 lbs each, screwed into sheet rock without a stud. A few E-Z Ancors, placed anywhere you like should make that cabinet very secure.

E-Z Ancors actually come in a lighter and even heavier version but I find the ones rated to 50 lbs. the easiest to use. I have used many boxes of these over the years and have never had one come out of a wall.

[Doug Cowan]

I think it looks great, and I'll bet you feel like a kid on Christmas morning everytime you open it! Add me to the list of those filing it away for future reference.

[Louis Bois]

(A very poor man’s, or at least a very poor woodworker’s, Becksvoort, if you will.)

Are you serious?!? A poor woodworker?!? Surely you must be a prince among paupers!!! Just look at those new LN chisels? LV shoulder planes? LN assorted planes? dovetail saws?!? SHEESH! I give up...

...anyone want to buy a slightly used type 5 #8?!?

Kidding aside, you've done a great job of organizing a potential nightmare...but as I gaze through my crystal ball, I forsee a duplicate cabinet...hung next to this one...made with different scraps from your shop...is that walnut?!? or maple?!?

[Dan Forman]

Tony---A very nice blend of form and function. I like the fact that it is made from bits of this and bits of that. And you have an enviable collection of hand tools to populate it as well.

Dan

[Tony Sade]

Wow-A whole new round of compliments-thanks, guys. I do find my self heading out to the shop occasionally to open the doors and gaze lovingly at my small family.

Kidding aside, you've done a great job of organizing a potential nightmare...but as I gaze through my crystal ball, I forsee a duplicate cabinet...hung next to this one...made with different scraps from your shop...is that walnut?!? or maple?!?

Well, Louis, I am working on the non-hand tool companion for this cabinet--small power tools, sanding stuff, adhesives, etc.-- but I've pretty much run out of decent looking scraps. This brute-it's about a foot taller and will need to be lagged into the studs at about 150 spots, is likely to be entirely from borg ply. I may be able to find some cut-offs from the cherry for a couple of drawer fronts, though.

Thanks again.

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Tony, wait a little while to build your second cabinet. One of the most unique things about the cabinet that you have built is that it has bits of a lot of other projects that you have done. If you wait a while to build the next one, it too will have the soul of many projects in it.