Here's one I made earlier...

[Heath Robinson]

Thought maybe you lot would like to see this, it's the toolbox I made on my furniture course about 18 months ago.

It's a black walnut frame with oak panelling, and beech drawer backs and a beech and wenge lift-out tool tray. The drawer-fronts have wenge details and handles, and there's a hexagonal brass rod that runs down the front to keep them in when moving it about.
There's a space under the tray that fits 4&1/2 and 5&1/2 planes and bits and bobs, and the chisels hang down the back of the drawers.
It's all hand done, and took an age to make, 3 weeks pretty much non-stop. It weighs a ton.

Anyway, thought I'd better show that I can actually swing a chisel, not just waffle.

Jake

 

[Harbo]

Very nice - lovely work

Rod

 

[wallace]

Nice work Mr. Quick question, were tool boxes of old meant to be moved around or left in one place?
Mark

 

[mn pete]

Very nice! All the details on the tray are really sharp...sort of a mission/Wright feel to it.

 

[paulm]

Like all the detailing Jake, lovely work

Cheers, Paul

 

[Graham Orm]

Love it! I like the chamfered edge around the top and storing the chisels down the back. Definitely an heir loom piece.

 

[Mister Griffiths]

That's a beautiful piece of work

 

[Waka]

Now that's a very nice tool chest.

 

[kinsella]

i agree, that is an amazing piece of craft.

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

That is one the nicest ones I have seen. Well done.

 

[Heath Robinson]

Thanks guys, it's possibly the thing-wot-I-dun that I'm most proud of.

Mark, I think that at this size or larger they were only designed to be moved when absolutely necessary. I take the big planes etc out if I have to lift it, for fear of rupturing something irreplaceable.

This really isn't that practical a box for carrying stuff, it's not the right method of construction. I kind of made up the method of joining the frames, and having panels that can expand and contract within the frames made the whole thing very heavy without so much as a marking knife in it.
Thinking of it, I'll take a few photos of how it's jointed, as that might be interesting to someone. The frame pieces themselves are dovetailed together. As it was a sort of apprentice-piece, it was less a design of a perfect toolbox than an exercise in practicing as many different techniques as possible, so there's a few weird joints and ideas in it.

 

[Timberfreak]

Thanks guys, it's possibly the thing-wot-I-dun that I'm most proud of.

And so you should be, very nice indeed!

~~~ if I may say so . . . there's nothing 'Heath Robinson' about that project.

 

[Heath Robinson]

No, just the rest of my life...

 

[Mcluma]

great craftsmanship

 

[Heath Robinson]

Here's a shot of the tool tray, little wenge pinned tenon joints, and a finger-jointed wenge handle.

And this is the front drawer detail. The outside strips are the little wenge handles, and the strip in the middle is a detail to make the indent for the locking rod look right when the rod isn't there.
The drawer fronts are all from one bit of oak, and the wenge bits are also all one bit, so all the grains match up when the drawers are shut.

You can sort of see the big dovetail here, between the main frame panels.

 

[andersonec]

If that's just a toolbox I would love to see your Wine Cabinet. =D>

Andy

 

[Heath Robinson]

I'm afraid that wine never hangs around long enough to get to a cabinet...