I am making a tool cabinet. I got super inspired by the legendary and arcane Studley Tool Cabinet after picking up the book on it. I am nowhere near Studley's level of woodworking though. I am what men of his day termed "a n00b". At the very least though, I thought could take some inspiration from the layout and organization.
So I have been working on this cabinet, and thought I had a sound basic design, but when I got to one of the main compartments I found my initial idea didn't look right in practice. At its core its just a box with a lid flap that swings upwards. It just has an odd shape due to the plane tills intersecting with it.
I was going to make a series of small boxes and stack them to form the interior portion, essentially.
As soon as I put the boxes in it was clear that the depths of the sides would make it inconvenient to put tools in or take them out, and would waste space I could use to fit more tools. So I revised it and tried a single box with one side that zig-zagged to fit around the tops of my hand planes... but that just looks wrong and kind of rickety.
I'm turning over some other ideas but I was really hoping someone here would have a better idea about how to approach this before I waste any more wood.
Thanks!