Dutch tool chest

This is after the tongue and grooved back and front was nailed on both to the upper and lower cabinet. So since my last blog I have already progressed further, but in this blog I wanted to quickly …

A need to save space in a cramped furnace-room/workshop was one reason Jonathan Judeich chose this Dutch tool chest design about three years ago. It was also one of the first things he built after making his workbench. “My first time doing dovetails, shiplap, and breadboard ends,” he said. PINE, POPLAR, AND RED OAK, 12-3⁄4D X 24W X 42-1⁄2H (WITH LID CLOSED) @gizanked Dubois, Pa.

The other room has more floor space. There is a fine old workbench at one end, with tool cabinets and a rack for clamps and other things. ...

It turns out that the Dutch Tool Chest I recently finished is a little larger than I needed.

In the October 2013 issue, you’ll find plans for Christopher Schwarz's "Dutch Tool Chest” – a handy-sized container for taking your tools on the road (one person can lift it) or for storing them in…

Dutch Tool Chest In my endeavours to become a better woodworker it only seemed logical that I would eventually be making dovetails. I wasn’t intimidated, but it is a very different thing to make jo…

Design Considerations The topic of tool chests has been quite polarizing on lumberjocks.com. The benefits, some would argue, are that they protect the...

Just…wow. On the block at the Martin J. Donnelly Nashua spring auction is an actual Dutch tool chest – complete with carpenter’s tools, brought to the U.S. from Holland by Marinus Steenland. …

livewire516's Project

Waiting for a book to print on the laser writer at the shop is boring, so Chris and I were talking to pass the time as we awaited the pages of Nancy

I followed plans to build this very functional Dutch tool chest to house my growing collection of woodworking hand tools. Check out the design features here.

Building a dutch tool chest is a fantastic exercise in many different kinds of joinery, and gives you a place that you can take an entire furniture building shop’s worth of hand tools on the go.

With the lid complete I can finally layout and begin installing the hardware for the chest. The chest will ultimately be painted but I want to test fit all of the pieces and the hardware before I b…

I don't know why, but I didn't like the idea of a saw till on the floor of my tool chest full across the front, walled off from the rest of the floor space…

Note: If you been directed here from another site looking for plans, I’m sorry. There are are a lot of individuals out there representing other people’s work as theirs.&nbsp…

Orion Henderson at Horton Brasses was kind enough to work with me on a custom, blacksmith-forged hardware kit for the Dutch tool chest, which includes two

RobD's Project

Large Dutch style tool chest, in two sections, full of tools, made by Phil White