Tool storage/protection

[galleywood]

I recently bought an Incra T rule - the stainless steel rule of which is very thin to allow the marking of points and lines with a fine pencil.

It is a little too delicate to leave it on the bench unprotected as you might do with a combination square.

I have taken to placing it in the upturned blister pack until I have something more permanent.

What examples can others show me of how they protect their vulnerable or teasured tools?

 

[Racers]

I make boxes from 6mm Birch ply with 3mm birch ply tops and bottoms.
Like this...



Make then saw in half.

Pete

 

[ED65]

I think how often you use it should probably dictate where to keep it.

If I'll reach for something often I'm not a fan of putting it away in a drawer, better to mount it on a tool board on the wall where you can just reach for it quickly as needed. I quite like tools being on display anyway

 

[sunnybob]

two padded cup hooks on the wall, hang it up, take it down, in a second. Then you wont "forget" to put it away when youve had enough for the day.

 

[D_W]

My measuring tools are in a metal tool box (mechanic's tool box type with a bunch of shallow drawers) with a foam rubber liner on the bottom. They're easy to get to that way, but protected when I'm not using them.

 

[Bm101]

My 'Filing Cabinet'. If you study the picture Very Hard For A Very Long Time, slight build quality distinctions between mine and Pete's chisel box may become apparent. It's an illusion and should be ignored.

 

[bridger]

https://bridgerberdel.wordpress.com/201 ... d-storage/

 

[NazNomad]

My 'Filing Cabinet'. If you study the picture Very Hard For A Very Long Time, slight build quality distinctions between mine and Pete's chisel box may become apparent. It's an illusion and should be ignored.

Ah, but the only way Pete knows a tool is missing is if he opens the box... Which, being box-shaped, is bound to have 2cwt of other crépe piled on it. :-D

 

[NazNomad]

... and on the subject of measuring tools.

We bake and crush our eggshells to feed them back to the chooks.

SWMBO was in the garage, smashing the granny out of a bag of eggshells recently. I couldn't find my tape measure anywhere.

See a story unfolding here? :-(

(I might start using her rolling pin as a mallet now).

 

[Peter Sefton]

I have my Incra rules hanging off rare earth magnets on the wall behind my bench.

Cheers Peter

 

[woodbrains]

(I might start using her rolling pin as a mallet now).

Hello,

You mean you don't use her rolling pin already?

Mike.

 

[AndyT]

I have many tools on open racks and shelves, for easy access, including almost all the planes. The fact that there are easily reached tools does sometimes mean I don't trouble to get another tool out of its box, which, as noted already, will sometimes have other things on top. It shouldn't be like that, but that's what I have noticed.
Special chisels, files and measuring tools live in an engineer's home-made chest, which a neighbour asked me to help lift in the back of her car to take to the dump. I couldn't let that happen!

 

[DTR]

(I might start using her rolling pin as a mallet now).

Hello,

You mean you don't use her rolling pin already?

Mike.

When Doris realised her rolling pin was a nice lump of beech, it didn't take her long to carve it into something else....

We now have a non-wooden rolling pin to prevent a reoccurrence :lol:

 

[Racers]

My 'Filing Cabinet'. If you study the picture Very Hard For A Very Long Time, slight build quality distinctions between mine and Pete's chisel box may become apparent. It's an illusion and should be ignored.

Pete