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For those of you who use hand planes... I'd like to see the different ways people store their bench planes. I'm starting to round out my bench plane collection via ebay, and I think I'll probably limit it to as small as #3 Stanley on up to #7 or #8, including 4-1/2. I'd like to be able to display them in my shop, as well as keep them handy for use. I had been keeping them in a drawer of a tool cabinet, but now I've got too many, and I'd rather not hide them anyway.

So... Do you keep them on a shelf? Or have a special display just made for them? I'd love to see some pics if you have any.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

I like it, especially the lower tier for the block planes. I had seen something similar to this before, but I was a little concerned that the tail of the plane could slide out and fall, but I see you've got a little rail at the bottom which would take care of that.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

Looking goood there Todd, one nice way to store planes, i also see that you have a very large collection of chisels, WHEW HEW HEW!

Wow, Todd you're giving me serious TAS.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Good gracious Todd! Thats one mean looking set of tools!
All superb quality as well...........TAS indeed.
I saw an article in the latest issue of FWW's Tools& Shops that shows how to make a decent looking cabinet for fine woodworking tools, not bad.
Cheers
Charliewood

I have posted this picture before, it is a few years old. There are more planes there now...

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Aaaah Man, i can't wait for the day i will have such a nice collection as Todd's and Arnt's! Drool!

Oh crap, Arnt is causing even more TAS to kick in.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Work in progress - cabinet is supposed to have doors which will provide racks for chisels, rasps, spokeshaves.

Yes, it's a Harbor Freight trim router box. I remain unrepentent

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Hi. Because I have limited space I've put my plane on the floor joists above my head and the small ones in the printer type-set cabinet.

The floor Joists in the basement.

Printer type-set cabinet.

The bigger picture.


The guitar hanging on the cabinet is the latest and nearly finished.

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Michael Lloyd

“I was born to ignorance, yes, and lesser poverties ...
I was born to privilege that I did not see ... I didn’t know it, but my way was paved” – John Gorka

My main work bench has "work area" of about 3'x6' so I devoted one small corner to chisels and planes. I also like to keep them handy. There are maple runners that they rest on/against to keep them on the bench and to keep the blades off the bench.

My small ones and the spokeshaves aren't shown. My collection is quite a bit smaller than everyone else's. A fact I plan to bring to my wife's attention just as soon as I post this. EBay here I come...

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That is great!

Your tag line is too funny.

"There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

I'll be using that one.

Ron: You still have more than I do.

(this said, I'm totally hitting up ebay for more block planes soon...)

a pine frame hung behind bench with lift in/out pockets for #3-#8, and high-angle woodies. Shelving adjacent to bench for misc. others.



- Carl Radens

I'm not going to show my haphazard mix of drawer and cabinet storage. I expect to move the shop this spring, and redo everything.

To hijack the thread somewhat, I see that a lot of people hang chisels in rows, one above the other. It makes sense in terms of organization--horizontal wall space is limited-- but aren't you bound, sooner or later, to cut yourself on the chisel that hangs above the one you are taking out or putting back?

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Howard, that does not seem to be a problem as long as they are not in the same plane, in other words, the lower ones are moved out a bit from the ones above.

Some people don't like storing tools above the bench at all as there is always the danger of dropping things as you reach over the work to grab a tool, or that chisels may fall down and so on. I haven't had any real accidents with this (know on wood!), I think the advantage of the easy access and always knowing where things are outweighs this potential problem. Your tools will get dusty however. If you don't like this drawers are probably a better idea, but my drawers always get messy and disorganized and I never find what I'm looking for. Small tools can be kept in various boxes or trays.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

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a pine frame hung behind bench with lift in/out pockets for #3-#8, and high-angle woodies. Shelving adjacent to bench for misc. others.



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Nice looking instrument there Carl. I'd love to see you start a new thread and give us some info on it.

Welcome to the OLF.

I'll second Ronn in saying Welcome to the OLF Carl and yes, please post some more pics of that awesome mandolin!

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