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267875 Dan Beck <drumsandbacon@g...> 2019‑02‑15 Tool Chests
Ed and Brent - great job on these tool chests and thanks for sharing. I
thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" and generally
try to ascribe to the theories contained within, I decided to go with a
french cleat tool wall instead of a tool chest. After seeing the tool
chests you've both made, I am beginning to regret my decision.
267877 Bill Ghio 2019‑02‑15 Re: Tool Chests
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> On Feb 15, 2019, at 5:03 PM, Dan Beck  wrote:
> 
> Ed and Brent - great job on these tool chests and thanks for sharing. I
> thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" and generally
> try to ascribe to the theories contained within, I decided to go with a
> french cleat tool wall instead of a tool chest. After seeing the tool
> chests you've both made, I am beginning to regret my decision.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have both....
267886 Brian Welch <brian.w.welch@g...> 2019‑02‑16 Re: Tool Chests
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:02 PM Dan Beck wrote:

> I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" and generally
> try to ascribe to the theories contained within, I decided to go with a
> french cleat tool wall instead of a tool chest. After seeing the tool
> chests you've both made, I am beginning to regret my decision.


Just this week in the Lost Art Press blog they reprinted a section on the
history of drawers from Charles Haywood.

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2019/02/12/four-centuries-of-drawer-making/

This line stood out to me and is exactly the reason I am building a wall
hanging tool chest:
“It was not until the 17th century that drawers in furniture were used to
any extent. The chest of drawers was entirely unknown, and it is with
something of astonishment that one comes to realise that through all the
centuries previously men had been content to bundle out the entire contents
of a chest in order to reach something at the bottom.”

Brian
Who just turned 50 and is finally starting to feel like an old tool himself
267888 Dan Beck <drumsandbacon@g...> 2019‑02‑16 Re: Tool Chests
This is true. And I’m sure I will.
267889 Dan Beck <drumsandbacon@g...> 2019‑02‑16 Re: Tool Chests
Ed- looks great! I love looking at other people’s workspaces.

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