Nice!

Nice!

When and where

can I buy one (or more)?  

nice!

I'll have to make something like #2... although I don't have the nice jig to do the fine corner joinery. Great inspiration!

Plans?

Unless you totally freehanded those, I expect there are some plans lying around somewhere? 

They are very pretty. 

Plans? We don't need no stinkin plans

Had a rough sketch in my head and built it around the amount of pliers I had.  Knew I wanted flat blade screw drivers on one side and Phillips on the other.   It kind of evolved as I went. 

Plans just complicate things.

Can take some more pics if you like.

It's about 6" wide and apx 8" deep

I do like a box joint, any time I can use it I do.  Have the Incra ibox jig and it works great.

John

Very nice, love finger joints

Very nice, love finger joints even better than hand cut dove tails.

Beautiful work and very

I have a love of old boxes

I have a love of old boxes with finger joints, hard to imagine cutting those by hand. Do think that for drawers dovetails are the only way to go.

Will try to get some more pics up this afternoon.  

Thanks for the comments.

John

Almost ...

  Not that I have any better design, but I am always on the lookout for something to help me get organized.  Just a couple things that I would change about it.  For me:  it needs some sort of separator so as I use the pliers out of it and put them back, the handles don't get all tangled together, and I am not stabbing myself on the tips of the nippers.  Second: I like to see the tips of my screw drivers/ knives and such to make sure I am grabbing the right one.  Third: A carry handle and way to secure the tools for transport.

  Looks OK for the bench, and slightly more organized than my bucket O'tools, but I am still looking for that "ultimate" tool caddy/workstation.

Toni

" still looking for that "ultimate" tool caddy/workstation"

  I keep my most used tools in rows on the work bench top off to the side and the lesser used stuff in an old machinists type tool chest with sliding drawers. Things like paint brushes and sharpies reside in large coffee cups lined up along the rear of the workbench. As long as one has a plan as to where the tools reside the containers don't matter much, I do like having the common stuff out in the open where it's easy to pick up......DaveB

Some design thoughts

Thought about this a lot,

The screwdrivers I tried several approaches and whatever I came up with where the tips where exposed took up so much space that it killed the idea.  So my aproach is that the flat blades are on the right and the Phillips are on the left, small in front and large in back, so far it has worked out great.  It forces me to be slightly organized.

The pliers are a compromise, I would really like them laying out flat fully visible.  I did a test layout where I put all of them flat as close as I could and it took up almost 8 square feet.  So far I have not poked myself and everything is visible.  

Thought a couple times about a handle, but I only travel with this 3-4 times a year and it's no big deal to sit on the bottom of my tool bag.  Any handle would have been in the way 99% of the time.

Not saying mine is better, just explaining my design approach.  I really was motivated by making the footprint as small as possible.

I have a tool chest with a bunch of small drawers on the left side of my workbench and it too holds stuff that I don't reach for every other second.

John

John