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For as long as I have enjoyed turning wood on my lathe I have desired a cabinet for storage of tools, pen and other project kits/accessories. Yesterday I completed the final touches. The base cabinet is 40" high 20" wide and 14" deep. It is constructed of red oak. The drawers have box joints with plywood bottoms. The top cabinet is made from Baltic Birch Plywood. It is 12 1/2" high and 13 1/2" square. This cabinet is mounted securely atop the base cabinet with a bar stool style lazy Susan. The yellow slide out drawers are from a kit Shopsmith sold a couple of years ago which included 24 drawers (six on each of the four sides.) I really liked this design as it enabled me to top the upper unit with a yet another unit with a baltic birch plywood base and is as wide above the drawer units as the cabinet below yet protrudes two inches wider on the remaining 1/2 of each side frame. I have drilled holes to enable vertical storage of numerous turning related tools and chisels. Four sides above are made from Poplar Within the finger jointed frame above and within the open frame I store glues, sanding devices and the numerous other little items that defy storage in any other sensible manner. late last night I realized I must make an addition to the top three drawers of the base unit. I will be adding a suspended tray that glides on a track mounted at each end, this increases my ability to store and readily locate smaller items. I seldom post a picture of items I create. Once before I posted pictures of a storage cabinet which demanded a few folks to let me know (privately) how silly it was. Others I discovered later found it useful. I pray someone out there will find my nutty ideas useful. Incidentally this project became a reality due to my loving brides desire for a sewing machine cabinet. She has been designing this cabinet for years and desire drawers and other interesting storage be included. I truly wanted to create something first which would allow additional opportunity to try my hand at the talents required to make her to enjoy her project. Now I begin shopping for the wood for her sewing center. fjimp

Bravo! Magnificent! I love to see custom pieces designed for the individual craftsman according to his/her needs. I hope this one serves you well.

I like it sir, I have stuff everywhere and take in all these storage ideas to oneday make my own. Actally more pictures are better, it helps give me ideas, so when you're bored throw on a couple more.
Nice job!

Outstanding! Great use of space to store all those odds-and-ends in one place.

GoodJob, Jim!:D I'm sure you will find this handy cabinet very useful!:)

My compliments to you Jim. Great design. I definitely like it. I should make myself something like that for my turning tools. Presently I have them all in a roll-away metal cabinet which I could use for other tools. Whenever you build that sewing cabinet, please post pictures of it as well.

Great job. I like the turn table on top. I too have to build a sewing cabinet. We bought one about ten years ago. I will use that one as a pattern, this machine is too big to fit in it.

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That is a well thought out cabinet! Very helpful, I'll bet. The bins are a great idea as well. Salute fellow woodchuck! jimsjinx

Many thanks for all of the nice comments. I am enjoying the cabinet. I have also discovered a few shortfalls. One in particular I am in process of working on. I always seem to have several really small tools that defy storage and are always lost. I decided to create two floating trays that will be sized 1/2 the depth of the top two drawers (depth being defined as distance from front to rear of drawer.) These two trays will be 1 1/2" high and be mounted at the top inside of drawer with a track running under each end of shelf so the tray can slide between front and rear positions. They will also be easily removable. Yes I will post pictures when completed. Thanks again for the kind comments. fJimp