Tool cupboard build (final update)

[MikeG.]

Sorry, W2S!! Like I said, this is just a working arrangement in a workshop, and not a display item. So long as it holds all my screws, nails and other bits and bobs, the bandsaw marks won't bother me in the slightest.

 

[Simon89]

Really enjoying your WIP, need to find some time to get my shop organised.

These could look cool on the screw storage bins...
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3041419709

 

[Lons]

They're not tool cabinets Mike it's furniture!

enjoying the thread. =D>

 

[MikeG.]

They're not tool cabinets Mike it's furniture!........

How very dare you!

 

[Lons]

They're not tool cabinets Mike it's furniture!........

How very dare you!

Wasamarra with that? It's a compliment. :lol: :lol:

Mine are all in ready made drawers and cupboards salvaged from a college skip, bloody vandals but my gain as they're oak, plus wall cupboards from old kitchens.

My problem is the more cupboards I have the more I seem to need. #-o
This shows about 1/2 of them, I started sanding some of the doors and drawer fronts several years ago - never finished.

 

[MikeG.]

They're not tool cabinets Mike it's furniture!........

How very dare you!

Wasamarra with that? It's a compliment. :lol: :lol:........

I can't help but think of Waka's tool cabinet etc (at least, I think it was him). All beautifully finished hardwood and so on.......the ultimate nightmare for me in a workshop. I'd be frightened to use stuff like that, frightened of putting a tool down too heavily or, frightened of dinging it with a piece of wood. That's why "furniture" and "workshop" aren't a hugely positive combination in my eyes.

 

[Lons]

I can't help but think of Waka's tool cabinet etc (at least, I think it was him). All beautifully finished hardwood and so on.......the ultimate nightmare for me in a workshop. I'd be frightened to use stuff like that, frightened of putting a tool down too heavily or, frightened of dinging it with a piece of wood. That's why "furniture" and "workshop" aren't a hugely positive combination in my eyes.

I admired that project as well Mike, beautiful piece.

What about calling it workshop furniture then?
Dovetails etc. deserve at least that.

 

[SammyQ]

Jings Bob, that is some place! Nice bit of recycling.

Sam

 

[MikeG.]

Trivial update. I put the handles on and filled the parts bins:

This involved hours and hours of sorting out screws and so on. "Do I chuck out these 2-1/2" black Japanned dome-headed slotted screws I haven't used in 25 years?".............

And I spent a whole day just cleaning and tidying the rest of the workshop. From this:

To this:

So that's it. Done. No more posts on my workshop. I've sorted out my timber racks and storage and will be starting on an unusual stair build in the next week or so. Now that I've created the space I am looking forward to using it properly.

 

[sammy.se]

Thanks for taking us on the journey!

 

[MikeG.]

My pleasure, Sam.

 

[Lons]

Jings Bob, that is some place! Nice bit of recycling.

Sam

It's just a double garage Sam, organised chaos! :lol:

The cupboards were a lucky find for me though I was furious at the waste at the time. I got a call asking if I wanted any as they had been ripped out of a college science lab and standing out in the rain. I got what I wanted but less than half of them as I just couldn't store them at the time, wish I had found the space for the lot as they were skipped in the end I understand.
Solid oak drawer fronts, door and face frames and oak faced blockboard carcases, they could easily have sold them for college funds. :roll:

 

[Lons]

Thanks for taking us on the journey!

+1

I take it you're restoring a few handsaws Mike?

 

[jimmy_s]

Looks good mike

My wall cabinet is made out of a staking pallet frames and some scraps from refurbishing the old kitchen. Not as nice as yours but functional. I used the hinged corners off the pallet frames as the hinges for the doors.

I can barely see my bench. My bench also has drawers from a chemistry lab that was stripped out and skipped.

Amazing what gets skipped - I got my Harrsion M300 metal lathe from a high school that was getting refurbished that I was working on - they dumped all the tooling though.

 

[Lons]

Looks good mike

My wall cabinet is made out of a staking pallet frames and some scraps from refurbishing the old kitchen. Not as nice as yours but functional. I used the hinged corners off the pallet frames as the hinges for the doors.

I can barely see my bench. My bench also has drawers from a chemistry lab that was stripped out and skipped.

Amazing what gets skipped - I got my Harrsion M300 metal lathe from a high school that was getting refurbished that I was working on - they dumped all the tooling though.

The amount of waste drives me nuts and I've salvaged where I can over the years, I guess that's why I have so much "stuff".

Apparently if I get within arms length of a skip I'll suffer a fate worse than death according to swimbo. :shock:

 

[jimmy_s]

We moved house and I lost out on workshop space - the new workshop is the garage I can hardly move for stuff. I need to build a new workshop but there's so much to be done on the house I can't get to it. Despite all that I came across a morso guillotine in a skip on one the the sites I'm working on a few weeks ago. I couldn't find the arm off it but Couldn't let it get scapped so I went in after it and rescued it. Its now in my garage taking up the little bit of space I have left. I don't really have a use for it but felt it was a crime just to let it go to the dump.

 

[Lons]

We moved house and I lost out on workshop space - the new workshop is the garage I can hardly move for stuff. I need to build a new workshop but there's so much to be done on the house I can't get to it. Despite all that I came across a morso guillotine in a skip on one the the sites I'm working on a few weeks ago. I couldn't find the arm off it but Couldn't let it get scapped so I went in after it and rescued it. Its now in my garage taking up the little bit of space I have left. I don't really have a use for it but felt it was a crime just to let it go to the dump.

A man after my own heart. =D>

 

[Jonathan S]

Looking good Mike, and some interesting design's.....looking forward to the staircase build....a few years back, before I discovered forums I made my first cut string staircase....took a lot of head scratching and looking at old books.


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[Trainee neophyte]

Looking at your new space, "Beautiful Wasteland" springs to mind.
How will you find anything, if you can't see it?
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[Trevanion]

This involved hours and hours of sorting out screws and so on. "Do I chuck out these 2-1/2" black Japanned done-headed slotted screws I haven't used in 25 years?".............

As soon as you chuck them out someone will come in the next week asking, "Have you got any screws like these?" #-o