You know how it is. You go to make a heap of shavings and the entire bench gets full. But then there are all these tools banging around on the bench that you're always moving from place to place when you try to make room, or you just want to vacuum up the mess.
I'm about to do the final smoothing on parts for a cherry cabinet, and the bench will be six inches high with shavings. Here's a shot of some of those tools in the places they've shuffled around in for over a year now.
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For the moment the bench is clean, but as soon as the shavings start, those tools would be buried in dust and chips. Today I finally got fed up with constantly moving the spokeshaves out of the way. See that little rack over there:
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Now they're off the bench for good.
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This is some good hard ash cutoff from a guitar my nephew is asking me to build with him. It machines like glass on shearing cuts as from the table saw, Forstner bit, or router, so I tried my hand at the band saw. I got lazy and didn't change from the 1/2" blade, though, so the curves got a bit ragged in spots. Only I notice. I sanded it up as best I could.
The back is just birch plywood, but I added a little ash platform/plaque behind the Boggs shave so it would stand up. Otherwise it would droop backwards and look odd. I think the effect is rather spiffy. The angles of the 151 and 151R took a bit of design effort. I would prefer to have them sit upright, but that would have required cutting backwards-leaning hooks in the ash and placing the shaves farther from the wall for clearance when removing them, so I opted for straight vertical notches and forward-leaning shave bodies.
I thought I'd put an oil rub on it, but for now, here's the rack where it will probably spend its time. In a twist, I made the rack so it could be moved when needed. I might still mount it on the wall a few inches up, but I wanted to live with the shaves there for a while to see if that's going to be their permanent place.
Now about that hammer, brush, No. 80, No. 71, and a few marking gauges... Once those are up in holders, I'll only have my little pencil turtle and the bench dogs. I guess those could go somewhere, too...