Finally got around to making the tool chest from ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’. It took a while to find a place that had board of light weight wood wider than 9 inches, in the end I found some wide 12″+ boards of tulipwood and managed to make a full height chest with one staggered glue seam.

I didn’t do a very good job buying wood, in that I didn’t work out how much I would need before going to the lumber yard, so I ended up forgetting to account for the skirts and internal stuff. It worked out well in the end though as I found I had enough mahogany salvaged from leftover window sills, which was easily enough to make the skirts, dust seal and internal trays.

I still need a better way of storing the chisels, so next on the list of things to make is a couple of chisel rolls.

Its not finished yet, in that it has no finish to it- In the book he makes a point of saying all tool chests should be painted, I’ll have to think about the colour for a while.