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anmius wrote:Google "Plane Storage" and click on "images." You might be overwhelmed with ideas and suggestions.............

https://www.google.com/search?q=plane+storage&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=nz4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7jjEUqGJMtepsATzp4G4DQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=623

Amidst dozens of images I was expecting to find was this one which I should have expected to find, but didn't... I found it a little bit humorous.

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A tongue in cheek suggestion:
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Gene Howe wrote:A tongue in cheek suggestion:
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Now that is just sick...

It "is" pretty neat. After I looked at it closer that is a fairly minimal set of tools but a good assortment. I would have to build about 6 of those cabinets.

This got me to remembering how few tools I owned when I got married (1963, I was 21). I had made the mistake of just using the tools in the farm shop and working on my car or any other shop work there. When I got married I basically had nothing except for my few tools that I was issued at work and kept in my car. That was maybe 2 screwdrivers, a pair of pliers and a small ball-peen hammer. There were a couple of other odd pieces but that was pretty much it.
Things were pretty tough in Central Indiana in the early 1960's. I got a job in a local factory in late 1962 just by luck after spending all summer job hunting. I clearly remember walking into Warner Gear in Muncie IN and the girl at the desk telling me that she could give me an application form but that they had just laid off 600 men that morning...
I just happened to walk in that local factory at the moment that they needed to replace a guy. They didn't pay very high but they were very steady. They went all through the great depression of the 1930's without laying off even one employee. I worked there almost 5 years. I never got rich but I always had a job. The trouble was I didn't have any loose money to buy tools. I made it very clear to family that at Christmas and birthdays I wanted tools... (and it has been that way ever since) . The first thing I bought was our rings then it was tools. My parents bought me an Indestro basic tool set which was a decent low price 3/8" drive socket set and a small set of end wrenches (I still have those and they are still good). On our first Christmas my wife bought me a 1/4" electric hand drill. Over the following years I bought tools at auctions, yard/garage sales and some new stuff. I'm still buying tools now 50 years later including an attack a few years ago when I bought at least 25 used Shopsmiths from all around the eastern US.
I don't have every big name tool on the planet but I am now a long way from those first few years when I picked up used nails and woodscrews off of the floor at the factory tossed by the maintenance guys and carted home pallets to disassemble for wood. I used to go down to my first little basement shop in the evening and used a hammer and a steel plate to straighten those discarded nails from work so I could make stuff...


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My reaction was somebody needed to build something with all those tools and had a lot of time to build that.

A labor of love for the craft fer sure!

I hope the aromatic cedar works for rust prevention.

There is room for more tools!

P.S. Interesting door between two columns. Wonder what is behind it? N????????

Henry O may be rolling over!

JPG40504 wrote:My reaction was somebody needed to build something with all those tools and had a lot of time to build that.

A labor of love for the craft fer sure!

I hope the aromatic cedar works for rust prevention.

There is room for more tools!

P.S. Interesting door between two columns. Wonder what is behind it? N????????

Henry O may be rolling over!

Google image search comes through again!

Some questions answered -- others raised. Such as, "What is behind the columns?"

Thanks Dennis. The chest is even more awesome when you know more about it.

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Google image search comes through again!

Some questions answered -- others raised. Such as, "What is behind the columns?"

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Google image search comes through again!

Some questions answered -- others raised. Such as, "What is behind the columns?"

Secret compartment(s).

Now about that "N"? Nev mind yer link solved that!;)

And behind de door?

It's not the kind of tool cabinet I would build but the word awesome fits well...


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It's not the kind of tool cabinet I COULD build but it is still awesome.