tool cabinet finished *PICS*

[Brent Beelby]

I started a thread last week about my wife wanting something nice for the house instead of for my shop, and that I would post some pics.
Well its finally finished!
The meat of the cabinet is made with baltic birch with black aniline dye. The trim and drawer fronts were done with African Padauk. I used T&T's Danish oil for the finish.

Thanks Per for the help on spray painting the brass. I never would have used 400 grit, I probably would have used 120. The 400 worked great. You can see them on the front of the cabinet on the right of the drawers.

I put locks on all the drawers because I have two boys, 16 and 6 yr old that love to "borrow" tools. Which is totally fine but I hate finding my tools a few days later by running them over with the lawn mower.

Brent

[Jim O'Dell]

Brent, that is SWEET!!! Where did you get the locks? They look like they work like deadbolts, but with a round key, is that right? Regular key locks are so easy to pick ;-)) .
Looks as tough as it looks good. Ii'm sure you will get a lot of years out of it. Jim.

[Corey Hallagan]

Wow, that is a sweet tool chest!! Nice work!
Corey

[mike malone]

[QUOTE=Brent Beelby]I started a thread last week about my wife wanting something nice for the house instead of for my shop, and that I would post/

Super job, Brent...very nice!! Must have been a nightmare alining up the drawers.
mike

[Jim Becker]

Wow! That's a real honey of a cabinet, Brant!! Awesome!

[Bob Marino]

Very nice work-almost too nice for tool!! Any finish for the inside of the drawers?

Bob

[Richard Wolf]

Very nice, is this for the wife or is this the tool box?

Richard

[Wes Baltzell]

Awesome job!

Wes

[Frank Pellow]

I started a thread last week about my wife wanting something nice for the house instead of for my shop, and that I would post some pics.
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Brent

Very nice cabinet Brent. But I am confused by your opening sentence. Is this tool cabinet for the house or for the shop?

[Brent Beelby]

Brent, that is SWEET!!! Where did you get the locks? They look like they work like deadbolts, but with a round key, is that right? Regular key locks are so easy to pick ;-)) .
Looks as tough as it looks good. Ii'm sure you will get a lot of years out of it. Jim.

Jim,
The chest handles, stainless-steel drawer pulls and the door bolt locks all came from Lee Valley. I couldn't believe how cheap and easy to install they were.
Brent

[Brent Beelby]

Very nice cabinet Brent. But I am confused by your opening sentence. Is this tool cabinet for the house or for the shop?

Frank,
It's for the shop. Last week I started a thread about my "angry" wife comenting on my tool chest. She had said "why don"t you build something nice for the house instead of your shop".
Sorry about the confusion.
Brent

[Brent Beelby]

Very nice work-almost too nice for tool!! Any finish for the inside of the drawers?

Bob

Bob,
No, I didn't finish the inside of the drawers.
I don't like the 'sound' a tool makes when it hits that 1/4" bare wood on the bottom, so I'll just put down some kind of liner.

[Jerry Olexa]

Outstanding work!!! Really cool...

[Effie Lever]

Great looking cabinet Brent, and the workbench is not too shabby either. No wonder the wife is complaining

Effie

[Jeff A. Smith]

At times like this, use words of tenderness with your wife. Here are some suggestions:

1) Yes, honey, I have a nice tool chest, but you did get a washer and dryer, didn't you?

2) Remind her of how when you dated you always paid.

3) And ALWAYS as a last resort, explain to her that she has more pairs of shoes than you.

4) Tell her that when you build the rolling tool chest companion to this one, that she's free to keep some scissors in it.

It's advice like this that you need to soothe her envy.

Seriously, that's an heirloom-quality tool chest. And it just looks stunning!

Jeff Smith
Athens, AL