I've had a desperate need for a while for someplace to store my hand tools (instead of all spread out on benches, shelves, etc..). After looking around at different pictures and plans for chests, I decided to roughly follow this design from Woodsmith Magazine.
I've been working off and on for several months on this chest and was going to wait until I finished to post build pics. Then earlier this week nbo10 revived the thread "Alternative Methods" Challenge.
Since I'm building the same chest (sort of) that was built by several others in that challenge I thought I'd go ahead and start posting now and show my methods and design changes.
For reference here are links to the other threads where the machinist's chest was built:
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternative-methods-challenge-machinists-chest-30864/
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternative-methods-project-3-machinest-chest-30401/
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternate-challenge-machinist-chest-30057/
And here is a picture of the chest from Woodsmith Mag.
I've been working off and on for several months on this chest and was going to wait until I finished to post build pics. Then earlier this week nbo10 revived the thread "Alternative Methods" Challenge.
Since I'm building the same chest (sort of) that was built by several others in that challenge I thought I'd go ahead and start posting now and show my methods and design changes.
For reference here are links to the other threads where the machinist's chest was built:
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternative-methods-challenge-machinists-chest-30864/
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternative-methods-project-3-machinest-chest-30401/
http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/alternate-challenge-machinist-chest-30057/
And here is a picture of the chest from Woodsmith Mag.
