Remember this joint?
http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/workbenches-lathe/
I was back there this week as part of a group of museum folks and preservation carpentry people recording the details of this building and its fixtures. I can’t go into great detail here on the project, it’s quite convoluted. But the building is in good hands and has a lot of people watching over its next phase.
If I hadn’t just converted to a tool chest, and hadn’t just written about how stupid tool and chisel racks are, I would be making many of these for my shop…
tool rack
ahh, I’ll probably make some anyway. Here’s my sketch of the first one. 1/4″ grid.
tool rack
Here’s another, made to hold just one chisel. How’s that for specialized? the slot is 1/4″ x 1″.
bracket for one chisel
October 21, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Could make some for your chest. Like Chris added, just 1620 style.
October 21, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I wonder if my pushsticks will get analyzed to this level of detail in 300 years?
October 21, 2012 at 9:24 pm
that is funny!
October 21, 2012 at 10:46 pm
That first one looks more like a makeshift dart board than a tool rack to me.
October 23, 2012 at 7:47 pm
could be dartboard, but we read it as where the joiners/carpenters put their awl. For generations.
October 22, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Peter, why not tool racks that fit in a tool chest? Can be lifted out and placed on the bench whilst working and then placed back in chest. I am working on this at present – I am prototyping the racks, and then working out a chest design to fit them! All using garbage pine collected from the council cleanup stuff left on the footpath. My bench is 900mm wide and all-sides-accessible so moveable racks are feasible. The question is – will I build the _proper_ chest out of better wood or just use the prototype? I am still using my fold-up shave horse prototype made out of the same stuff. Why are all the edges chamfered?
Seems a long time since we chatted at the end of May in Plimoth, thanks again for your time, and signing the book, great workshop.
Peter in Sydney beautiful Spring weahter.
January 10, 2013 at 11:42 am
What exactly seriously inspired you to create “tool
racks Peter Follansbee, joiner’s notes”? I actuallyhonestly adored the post! Thanks a lot -Annie