I was working down in the shop and the A/C was on because it was about 90 out and very humid. I went over to the bench where my planes are kept and had a hart attack. The high humidity had caused the window unit to spit water and that had built up on a few of the metal planes and covered them in rust. Two hours later after cleaning off the rust I finally decided to build a tool chest. I settled on an 1830’s style tool chest from one of Roy Underhill’s books. It’s made form some scrap popular that was laying around the shop, taken down to 7/8 inch thick. I threw in the folding two foot rule to show the size. I haven’t had the time to build the tray but now my planes have a home.
I plan to remove the knots in the top to put in a brass mortise lock.
The lid was not hinged at the time the first two pic were taken.
I have the tray runners in but the tray it self remains in board form. I post pics of it when I get around to making it.