Galooterati,

My storage solutions include (inter alia) five recycled items:

1.  The mail sorter pigeonholes from a nearby town's post office--56
    openings in a 7X8 grid, each about 4X7 inches and over a foot deep.
    This holds planes of many types. It sits atop--

2.  A set of old barber's cabinets--three drawers on top and six flip-
    down doors below (where the towels used to go, I imagine). Thes
    hold a miscellany of bulkier stuff--plow planes, things in boxes,
    and so on.

3.  An old specimen cabinet discarded by the natural history museum the
    LOML used to work for--waist-high, two ranks of ten drawers. Holds
    flat or long-and-skinny stuff--chisels, files, bits, shoulder
    planes, layout tools. On top of this are two Gerstner toolchests--
    but they're not recycled.

4&5. Two discarded library card catalogue stacks, each with 15 drawers.
The card guide hardware has been removed and the slots in the bottoms
covered with lauan plywood recycled from some cheap sliding doors
(formerly on the base cabinets in our garden shed). These hold
hardware, mostly.

While the first three items are unique, the card catalogues are easy to
pick up at fleas and anteek mauls--the libraries are all going to
electronic cataloguing.

Clearly, I need to make an inspired find to convert to a saw till or
I'll actually have to (shudder) _make_ something...

John Wadsworth, in Delhi, NY