Friday, February 15, 2019

Tool Holder For The Shop Moravian Bench

The shop Moravian bench has a quick and dirty tool tray that I keep telling myself I'm going to replace with a nicer one, someday. You know how someday never gets here if the butt ugly thing is working. Whatever someday I'll make a nicer tool tray.

What I have missed on the bench is a tool holder on the back side of the front slab. All my other benches have one because they have split slabs and no tool tray. While I've grown to like the tool tray I still miss having a tool holder for my squares, chisels, and saws that are in use.

I was looking for an excuse to not work on MsBubba's kitchen desk and what better is there than making and installing a tool holder for the bench.

From the back side:


From the front side:


MsBubba's desk base has been dry fitted and is taking up room in the shop. I needed to figure out how much to take off the legs. After rough trimming of the legs they will need shaping and all surfaces planed before glue up. Get a drawer made and cut the top to size and I'll get that sucker out of the shop.


ken



6 comments:

  1. If you plan on keeping the top that thick I wouldn't remove too much from the legs. The overall proportion looks good to my eye. Thinner legs may look spindly.

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    1. Ralph,

      I agree. About all I will do to the legs put a little taper on the wide side bottom. The top will have a pretty good bevel on the bottom sides to lighten the look as well.

      ken

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  2. Like you and Ralph, I too have one of those table in progress :-)
    Better get back to it soon...

    Bob, king of procastiners

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    1. Bob,

      I can't say anything about procrastination. This desk is taking forever to finish. I keep finding other things to do,like wash my hair or cut my toenails or the catchall when I don't want to finish something, sharpen chisels.

      ken

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  3. I like the idea of the tool tray and wish I could see better how it's made. Any chance you could take another picture of it on the top of the bench?

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  4. Andy,

    Sure thing. I'll post a couple more photos. It is simplicity itself, three spacers thick enough but not too thick and a board screwed to the back of the slab. Basically the same as the "split fill" on the Roubo benches less one board.

    ken

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