With open trays and compartments, your tools can jostle around. Either configuration allows you to see the tool’s profile with ease. Or the molding planes are stored in a compartment with the toe of the tool facing forward. Molding planes are usually stored vertically against the back wall of a floor chest with the help of a single divider, which is simply nailed to cleats, making it easily removable. Again, this allows you to reconfigure your tool set without ripping out a bunch of precisely made wooden walls that you constructed right before you bought that new shoulder plane. Note, though, that these areas don’t have dividers or specially fitted compartments. The lower compartment of a standard Dutch tool chest lets you store your molding and joinery planes so you can see their profiles. A traditional floor chest is sized so there’s enough space for a good set of bench, joinery, and molding planes. A rack set away from the case side with spacers, also called a French rack, works great in a tool chest, allowing you to store tools such as chisels and saws.įor storing handplanes, most tool chests have an open well. apart holds and protects awls, screwdrivers, cutting gauges, and dividers without making it hard to reorganize them. I use two types of racks, one with holes and one with spacers. I protect these types of tools using tool rolls or wine cork, or I store them in a rack. Still, I don’t want sharp, delicate edges getting dinged in these open trays.
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This makes them quick to install and a breeze to remove.
To guarantee space for his most frequently used tools, like his block plane, Schwarz nails dividers into place. No more opening 10 drawers to find the nail set.
Plus, with traditional trays, your tools are never hidden. Just move them to the top tray, like in a traditional English chest, or to the front of the compartment, like in a Dutch tool chest with its open area below. And they let you easily reorganize based on which tools are the most important at that moment. The fact that the tools touch one another horrifies some woodworkers, but open storage allows you to fit lots of tools in a small space. On the whole, I prefer open storage, like trays and spacious compartments, so I rarely make a specialized holder for an individual tool. Adding spacers between the rack and the chest carcase allows you to store wide tools, such as chisels and saws. The tools are easy to move around and reorganize, too. A simple rack with holes holds and protects a variety of narrow tools.
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