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Pegboard lines he walls of the garage/shop but those organizers leave quite a bit to the imagination. Can some of you folks show photos of the organizers you use for hanging small hand tools on walls and such. Almost anything has to be an improvement over the little metal hanging clips on pegboard. Thanks.
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lives under the end of the bench:
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Sean,
You put a lot of time, effort, energy, thought, and money into your storage ideas.....
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I didn't build all of these in weekend. They evolved over time - years.
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Actually,I'm not as organized as I'd like to be. Too much stuff,and not an inch of wall space left.
The riffler file box is about 12" x 14" and holds rifflers I made and a set of fishtail carving tools I also made from W1 steel. It has seen a lot of use,and was made to look old to begin with. The carving tool racks aren't as neat as they could be,either. My tool chest was made in 1970,my first year as musical instrument maker. It is more like a pattern maker's chest. Not copied from any style.
Hopefully,now that I have a camera I can manually focus,future pictures will be better than some of these.
The "ghost"looking white skin is a ray skin I bought to use in a restoration job. The boxes with red labels are Bigsby guitar vibratos. My wife is in the picture.
I had to make 450 feet of shelving for the new shop,so it is not the most highly finished shelving around. At least,made from good hard pine.
I did not imagine I'd ever fill up a 30' x 40' and a 16' x 22' room and a lawn building and a full house basement. But,when I retired,it was a whole new game!!
Last edited by george wilson; 04-04-2014 at 8:43 AM.
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Judging by the picture George, it looks like you punched above your weight. ;-)
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Hi Sean
Those a beautiful cabinets and boxes. You have clearly put a lot of thought into them, and I can imagine how much time it took!
There is a drawknife in the picture below I'd like you to tell me about - the small one (perhaps 4" or 6" blade) with the rounded handles, a carvers drawknife.
I have just purchased one like this on eBay, a 6" Jennings, so my curiosity is piqued.
With regard to my own humble shop fittings, they are also items I have built over the past 5 years (new shop), as the need arose and there was time. It's just cheap pine tarted up with Jarrah trimmings.
There are marking tools hanging on the wall behind the bench ...
There are also tool trays attached to the wall behind the bench (rather than attached to the bench, which stands free) ...
To the left are cabinets for spokeshaves, ploughs, braces, rasps ...
Nothing is ever this tidy!
And a bench dog to keep an eye on all ...
Regards from Perth
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Last edited by Derek Cohen; 04-04-2014 at 8:56 AM.
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Sean and Derek,your shops are so much more beautiful than mine. I wish I could make mine nicer,but just haven't the space,or the energy at this point.
I have just too many interests,with a complete machine shop(for metal working),and a woodworking shop,and blacksmithing area all crammed into one.
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Tell you what George, I'll trade my tools for your skills. Deal?Originally Posted by george wilson
Regards from perth
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The little drawknife has a four inch blade. I'm blanking on the maker right now, but I can check tonight. I do a good bit of craving, shaping and so forth in my projects, so I'm always anxious to try more shave type tools. This one is very useful at times, but my vintage 8" Swan gets 95% of the use (better than the LN and Barr to my hands). I find I get too many tools not because I want to collect, but more because I'm curious to compare and owning seems the only way. You don't know till you hold it and use it.
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