The Woodshop Shed

Plane-making tools box

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I built a box to hold my plane-making tools (floats, brace and bits, and circle templates). It holds all the tools securely, including the box of my gimlet drill bits and nothing rattles around.It's built of 3/4 pine which my sweetie salvaged from some shelves she no longer needed, plus some beech scraps for the dust seal. The hardware is brass from Ace Hardware and set me back less than $20. The box is glued and nailed together, using cut nails from Brooklyn Tool & Craft.The inserts to hold the floats are pieces of a construction grade 2×6 I had laying in the shop. I sawed and chiseled recesses to hold the floats by hand. The floats with their handles to the left cut on the push stroke, and the handles on the right cut on the pull.Finish is linseed oil and a couple coats of shellac. The plane carved in the lid is my first bit of artistic carving. Not great, but not horrible for a first attempt, I guess. The letters on the front are carved and filled with black wood filler.

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