I am a recent convert, like many, to working out of a tool chest instead of hanging tools on racks, using shelves, etc… (here are some old posts about it http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/tag/tool-chest/ )
but there’s still lots of tools hanging around. I put a chisel away today, and found yet another argument for using the tool chest.
good reason for a tool chest
So I know some of what I will do in the shop tomorrow.
tomorrow’s task
Here is one of many boxes I made in the summer, when it was too hot for real woodworking. The blocks to separate the chisels were based on something I saw in the new edition of the Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton. (this detail is in the old edition too, but I was only looking at the book because I had got the new edition…)
mortise chisels
I got my copy of the Seaton book by joining the Tools & Trades Historical Society… http://www.taths.org.uk/ - it’s worth a shot if you haven’t already done so. But it might be you have to buy the book at this point…I don’t know. You gotta have it either way.
October 16, 2012 at 11:04 pm
I hate when that happens!
October 17, 2012 at 2:37 am
The Seaton book was a great read, lots of great historical detail.
October 17, 2012 at 8:52 am
I got mine after joining TATHS earlier this year. Anyone interested in historical woodworking needs to own this book.
October 17, 2012 at 9:19 am
Peter
I suggest that you consider making a shallow mortise in in your benchtop in front of your bench hook so the hook can be tapped down beneath the bench surface. Your photo of the chisel and the hook is teling. Someday the two may meet to the detriment of the chisel. Or, worse yet, perhaps the toothy critter will attack you. I think you probably have a slide or two from Baltimore that speaks words on this subject.
Persnickity.
October 17, 2012 at 11:07 am
Does working out of a tool chest prevent chisels from falling apart – or is that not the point? Sorry if this is a dumb question!
October 17, 2012 at 6:04 pm
I think what Peter means is if the iron had gotten loose in the chest there would be little to no potential for it to fall on a floor .
October 17, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Tis the season for bifurcating and precipitating chisels.
October 18, 2012 at 11:40 am
The second edition Benjamin season book was available from Tools For Working Wood earlier this year. Unless they sold out already.
October 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm
I keep hearing the pro-chest argument…
…Doesnt it slow you down?
I guess when Im blacksmithing its easier to grab heavy iron stakes than futz with case….but it seems like shelves are faster to grab something.
…in the event of emergency woodworking, lol
*shrugs*