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270495 "dks@t..." <dks@t...> 2020‑04‑15 tool storage
I sent this earlier, but it didn't seem to get through...

So unlike Eric, who's finishing far too many little projects now that he's
confined to quarters, I have been making only a wee bit of progress on
storing/displaying and generally making accessible some of the tools which I use
most often, attempting in my own unsophisticated way, to replicate the wall-hung
panels that were illustrated in FWW not so long ago. This was occasioned by my
deciding to shift EVERYTHING accumulated over the past 30 odd years from one end
of the basement to the other about 16 mos. ago..., in order to gain some natural
daylight in the cave. Anyway, suffice to say, progress has been made at galoot-
worthy speed, but I'm always on the lookout for new, interesting ways to store
and display tools. As result, I was distracted by the many workshop photos that
Claudio D. has posted on the google. In addition to his many completed projects
( about which we should speak ), I was particularly taken by two things

1. the way in which Claudio mounted his cabinet screwdrivers on a simple angled
bracket, in contrast to the more common horizontal strip, and

2. the brackets in which Claudio's many chisels are suspended. It appears the
brackets were constructed of many little pieces held together by dowels rather
than the more common arrangement of holes with slots.

So I was wondering if those were his own ideas, and also whether he was happy
with those particular features?

And then I thought it might also be interesting to hear from others about
storage methods/arrangements which they considered successful or unsuccessful -
and why?

Don

Recent Bios FAQ