I asked Gustav to take a few pictures of how his block plane was held in his DTC. He also supplied a few other pictures of details.
The block plane which was a gift from Brian Eve of Toolerable sits on the left side of the chest in the top compartment. The inspiration for the holding arrangement also came from Brian, who has his block plane sitting in a leather pouch in the same spot.
Gustav chose to make his out of wood. Each side is made out of two strips of wood glued together via a triangular piece. The entire holding arrangement was glued and tacked to the side of the chest after the two sides were dry.
In the other side of the chest, his speed-square is mounted using a piece of wood with a groove in it and a notch in the outer tool rack. The framing square simply sits along the backside of the chest being supported by the narrow slots in the shelves. We had to cut off 1.5" of the long leg of the square to make it fit inside the chest, but It sits very well protected now.
The two drawers are dovetailed with through dovetails. The bottoms are massive wood planed down to 1/4" thickness and held in a groove in the front and sides and overlapping the back of the drawer. We made them the traditional way because I know that once in a while it can be useful to have an example of a drawer to show to people. For instance if you need to show your friends what a dovetailed joint looks like.
The pulls are thin leather straps nailed to the bottom of the front. The straps will bend when the battens for locking the fall front are inserted, and they don't protrude so much that the drawers needed to be made shorter. The notches for allowing the locking battens just need to be a bit deeper to accommodate the folded leather.
Thanks for the shout out! I think I like Gustav's wooden holster better for the block plane.
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome :-)
DeleteThanks for the nice plane.
I think the wooden holding arrangement came out really well too.
Cheers
Jonas
I have a collection of block planes in a deep drawer that I've been meaning to store on end similarly. I like your cradle and hope to adapt that to hold the five planes that are clacking around currently.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve,
DeleteThanks for your nice comment, I am glad that you like the cradle arrangement.
When I helped Gustav install it, we first drew a line square to the bottom of the compartment.
The first side was installed, and then we added a piece of sandpaper to the width of the plane to prevent it from binding.
Good luck with your project.
Brgds
Jonas
Fine looking chest down to the details. I've been thinking about a DTC, so now I'm going to include some of Gustav's ideas for tool holders and drawers. Hope mine turns out as well as his. (Btw, yours looks pretty good, too)
ReplyDeleteHi Jeff
DeleteThanks for the nice comment.
A DTC is a great little project. I seriously considered making more tool holders in mine as well, but since I mainly work from a wall hung cabinet I decided not to.
The drawers I think are a great for storing pencils and sharpening supplies etc. And there is still plenty of room for all the other stuff.
It is not clearly visible in the previous post, but Gustav has added thin strips between the slots for his chisels.
Since his chest occasionally will be lifted around, the chisels can swing a little and technically touch each other. It might not be a deal breaker, but gluing in a bunch of thin strips is not a big deal either.
Brgds
Jonas