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I happened to catch what I think was a season 6 show where they built this tool box. I think it was Don's dad showed up at the end of the show, 97(?) years old.

Did others catch that show?

I'm thinking of building one or three of these this summer. Well if I can find the time.

Has anyone built one of these or maybe something similar? Got pictures?

Comments and questions welcome.

Ed

Here's a link. I didn't see them using a Shopsmith though. Maybe they should think about it.

http://www.woodsmithshop.com/download/607/grandpas-tool-chest.pdf

That is very much like some larger ones that I posted pictures of (and about the same size as one of them) on the "Back to the shop move" thread last week.
I just love that kind of boxes and this Woodsmith one is quite nice as are their detail drawings.

I am often drawn to what many consider "utility" items, some that are quite primitive.
I also like utility boxes like old dynamite boxes etc.

One of my soon to happen projects for the shop is an old fashioned "shave-horse". I would rather build something like that than something like a jewelry box.

I used to think that I should build stuff that other people would like but these days I only build what I enjoy.



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Here a woodcraft postcard that I saved. Pretty close I'd say.

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I've always have a list of projects that I would like to get to but I'll never get most of them done. Just not enough time. Yea I waste a lot of it here and other places, need to lower the computer activity and do more woodworking I guess.

I know if I build one others in the family are going to ask for one too. I can see the number turning out to be about 8 of them.... I'm not sure I will want to do that.

I was also thinking of making a smaller version of this that could hold my wallet, knife, keys, and the like. More of a woodworkers box on the night stand sort of thing. Thinner material and maybe all glue joints????

Ed

On page three of the plans from the link given can someone tell what
detail B at near the middle of the page is?
It says it's the Section view of lock mortise and recess for escutcheon

But I see many more pieces that I can imagine being there. I'm getting tangled up with the pieces not labeled "a" "e" or "f" To me it looks like there may be 6 additional pieces not labled or id'ed. I suspect they are perhaps lock parts or I'm just not sure.

Ed in Tampa wrote:On page three of the plans from the link given can someone tell what
detail B at near the middle of the page is?
It says it's the Section view of lock mortise and recess for escutcheon

But I see many more pieces that I can imagine being there. I'm getting tangled up with the pieces not labeled "a" "e" or "f" To me it looks like there may be 6 additional pieces not labled or id'ed. I suspect they are perhaps lock parts or I'm just not sure.

Detail B is a close up of how the lock is fitted in board A (center of the top edge)

Ed in Tampa wrote:On page three of the plans from the link given can someone tell what
detail B at near the middle of the page is?
It says it's the Section view of lock mortise and recess for escutcheon

But I see many more pieces that I can imagine being there. I'm getting tangled up with the pieces not labeled "a" "e" or "f" To me it looks like there may be 6 additional pieces not labled or id'ed. I suspect they are perhaps lock parts or I'm just not sure.

Those 'additional' lines are the lock itself.

Some "Box" links.

http://rainfordrestorations.wordpress.c ... tool-cart/

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/89105

http://blog.lostartpress.com/2013/05/11 ... hest-cart/

Here is a shot of my maternal grandparents taken about mid 1940's with a push-cart of the style a lot of tradesmen used for very many years into our past to haul their tools from place to place. He had made this cart from the wheels of an old horse-drawn one row cultivator and the box was a former 1930's pinball machine. He later replaced the box. I still have that cart and it needs a new box again. He only used the cart as a garden cart and I rode in it often as a child. Such carts are still quite handy. I have a fair sized rubber tired modern one made by Garden-Way.

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Bet the original looks even better than 800x600.

So it has been a few days and I've been looking more at this as a project.

If I used the hardware listed it seems like $131.75 plus shipping.

For the wood I found some nice looking "rustic"(that is the label they had on it??) hickory that would surely look nice and give it that "old" look even when new. As a guess with minimum expected waste that would be $160.

I don't know if I like the idea of spending $300 for one of these.......

Well, back to the study of the project.

Ed