Box for combination plane blades

[Barry Dima]

Normally, I'd post this in the projects section, but it seems more relevant to the neander section—if at least for y'all's critique.

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I'm pretty happy with this. Fun little project that will greatly help reduce clutter.


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The box is unfinished. Maybe I'll add BLO when the weather's warmer so the box doesn't have to warm inside? I do like poplar's booger streaks, though.

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Whoops, screws. Also, planing down the dividers to better fit the irons to reduce slop would have been smart.

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End grain wasn't supposed to show. I really need to do a better job of following my plan, ya know?

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*Privitive design heavily inspired by Brandon on Lumberjocks, which is better. For one, he left spaces for the tongue blades' depth stops. The 1/4" material seems too thin to dado out space, so I'll have to deal. Second, his lid is smarter because it doesn't interfere with the back row of blades.

[Jim Koepke]

Pretty neat storage box.

The only problem is if you end up with another bunch of blades you will have to expand.

Currently I have storage in the original box that came with my #55. There is a full set of blades for a #45 including the special cutters in a box made by a previous owner. There are four of five boxes of blades on a shelf. Then there are some small drawers with blades for my #45, #50 & #55. It would take a pretty big box to consolidate them all.

jtk

[Bill McNiel]

Barry - I really like your attitude and self evaluation. BTW-anything that reduces clutter is a positive step IMHO.

[Barry Dima]

Pretty neat storage box.

The only problem is if you end up with another bunch of blades you will have to expand.

Currently I have storage in the original box that came with my #55. There is a full set of blades for a #45 including the special cutters in a box made by a previous owner. There are four of five boxes of blades on a shelf. Then there are some small drawers with blades for my #45, #50 & #55. It would take a pretty big box to consolidate them all.

jtk

Now THAT would be a neat storage box.

Barry - I really like your attitude and self evaluation. BTW-anything that reduces clutter is a positive step IMHO.

That compliment's probably the best I've gotten in awhile. Thanks, Bill.

[David Eisenhauer]

Thanks for sharing Barry. I need to do something like this for the cutters on my 45.