Storing the wooden hand planes? Show us what you do.

[Gene Davis]

Doing web searches, I can find many ideas for storing iron planes, but few for the blocky wooden ones.

That is, other than a large wood box for one's entire tool kit. That is not what I want to do. I'll not be hauling these to work sites.

If you have any suggestions, post them here.

[Tom McMahon]

not pretty but it works
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the longest planes are on the top shelf just out of view

[Frederick Skelly]

Gene, I took about a 16" piece of a 2×8, cut a series of shallow grooves at various widths (to match the width of the planes) and then made dividers out of 1/8" plywood. It looks like a short version of those desktop file folder holders. Nothing fancy but it works.

[Stanley Covington]

not pretty but it works
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the longest planes are on the top shelf just out of view

Looks beautiful to me! Wow! And these are just the ones in your bedroom, right? You are my hero.

Thanks for the peek.

[Tom M King]

003 (640x480).jpgA couple of rows in the cubbies to the left, and one and a half in the set to the right that you can't see the front of. All those boxes are waterproof and air tight, and most have silica gel canisters in them. I used to want them out where I could see them, but this way there is not only no rust to worry about, but not even any dust accumulation on them. I'm somewhere past 110 of those boxes now, all in cubbies so no unstacking needed.

[Pete Hotard]

003 (640x480).jpgA couple of rows in the cubbies to the left, and one and a half in the set to the right that you can't see the front of. All those boxes are waterproof and air tight, and most have silica gel canisters in them. I used to want them out where I could see them, but this way there is not only no rust to worry about, but not even any dust accumulation on them. I'm somewhere past 110 of those boxes now, all in cubbies so no unstacking needed.

Is there just one plane in each of those big boxes??

[Tom M King]

No. Most of those boxes are full. There are many other tools in various ones, other than the dozen or so plane boxes. For instance, one is labeled "H&R", one "Beading", etc. Also, things like Dremel, Hammer Drill, Stone 1, and 2 (for stonework tools). The "8" box only has a couple of planes in it. It's the lightest populated one. I think all the molding plane ones are stuffed.

[Kees Heiden]

This is a problem I have too. I saw on an old image from an antique woodworking shop how they nailed a batten horizontally between two studs and simply stuck te planes behind the batten, nose down. Maybe I'll do something like that too.

[Gene Davis]

I think I want to store the wooden planes sole-down, and with the wedges loose. Just watched a YouTube video by David Weaver in which he discusses this issue of wedge-tight and body in tension or not.

[ken lewellyn]

I built a hanging cabinet with a shelf for wooden moulding planes. I have since run out of room so I am contemplating building a dedicated wood plane storage chest and using the existing space for metal planes...