Over the past year or so I have become hopelessly addicted to using handtools.
I have acquired planes in antique stores, garage sales, as gifts and a few from our friend Walt Quadrato.
So many have found their way home that they now need a place of their own. While I really like the designs and innovation that y'all have shown in your tool cabinets I have decided that a single function cabinet is more to my likeing.
This is a design based on a Plane Till that Dave Anderson of Chester ToolWorks built and posted on a couple of other forums. You can view Dave's Plane Till here.
In design I decided that one of the requirements for my storage was dust control. Therefore an open cabinet would not suffice. I will be installing a shiplap back, and doors on the front.
However, I like the sloped tray for the longer planes, hinged lids over shelf storage, and cubbies for the smaller planes and so will keep these design elements.
In true neander fashion I begin by cutting wide poplar stock to length:
True up both edges to make the panels:
Once glued, thickness and flatten:
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