Sunday, August 27, 2017

Japanese Style Tool Box

The last item to be finished of the portable workshop is the tool box. I finished cleaning it up last night, as much as it will be "cleaned up" it is a tool box don'tchknow, and put a coat of Danish Oil on the outside. Today comes the hard part....Deciding what tools to take. Too many and the tool box becomes unwieldy and too heavy to be "portable", Too few and either the "work arounds" take the pleasure out of making or even the project becomes dead in the water.

The list leads off with a couple of planes, I expect a #3 and a #5 with two cutter sets. A chisel roll with 1/4" through 1" plus at least one paring chisel. A couple or three saws, I have not decided between Japanese or Western, there are advantages to each. Marking stuff, squares, knifes, winding sticks, tapes, rules, and so on. Rabbet plane, plough plane, router plane....Anyway you get the idea. A couple of bench appliances like a bench hook also need to find a place as well.

Of course all this may be unnecessary because the bench and tool box may end up being a table and accessory to hold the whisky glass every evening .

Anyway here are a couple of photos of the tool box, click 'em to big 'em:


With lid open and tool tray:


See you guys on down the road,

ken


9 comments:

  1. I made a tool box and I screwed bench hooks on each end of the toolbox with a threaded insert. That way I didn't give up any interior space to them. If that doesn't work, maybe there is some way to make the sliding lid do double duty as a bench hook?

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  2. Anonymous9:14 AM

    Two sources of inspiration for a basic set:
    Paul Sellers " *essential* woodworking hand tools".
    Jonas Jensen who is working on board of a ship (see his blog "the mulesaw").
    I was wandering why you cited a spirit level in your previous post?
    Sylvain

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  3. Sylvian,

    I like my saw line to be vertical, the easiest way to confirm is with a small sprit level.

    I try to follow Jonas' blog, he does a lot with very little, and Sellers usually has very good information to pass on.

    Thanks,

    ken

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  4. Ralph,

    My thoughts are to make a narrow bench hook with a second hook to add support.

    ken

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    1. Steve D6:30 PM

      The lid is a cleat short of being a bench hook.

      Being multitalented is a good quality in a travel companion.

      Steve

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  5. Good job. Now comes the hard part...figuring out how to fit all the tools we think we need into a small container :-)

    Bob, back from another road trip to Ontario

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  6. Good job. Now comes the hard part...figuring out how to fit all the tools we think we need into a small container :-)

    Bob, back from another road trip to Ontario

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  7. Steve,

    The multitalented part is very true....

    ken

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  8. Bob,

    What surprised me was after filling the box, with the help of MsBubba I could carry it to the Motorhome and load it into a bin. Of course once in Oregon the one tool needed will be in Arizona.

    ken

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