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Freehand Carving Devon/Ipswich
There’s a large body of carved designs I have learned from studying surviving oak furniture from Devon, England, and Ipswich, Mass. These designs are chiefly found on chests and boxes, although they ...
Open Wire: The Place to Ask Your Questions
Just a gentle reminder – or announcement for those of you who are new here – that six Saturdays a year, we hold “Open Wire” hours from 8 a.m.-5 pm. That’s the place to post any and all woodworking ...
Know Your Materials
Before starting any craft or trade, it’s essential to know the material you plan to work with. Most of us know the rudimentary properties of wood: It’s a renewable resource; it can be soft like pine or poplar, or hard like maple and oak; it splits with the grain, but ...
Mind Upon Mind: Bevel Gauge Stand
Here’s a quick bevel gauge stand idea for theBS chairmade from scrap from the chair. There’s need to keep taping it and retaping it. Wedges allow for easy removal and placement of my inexpensive bevel gauge, which ...
A Good Visit: Rosenheim Wood Technology Museum
After I dragged my butt off the plane to Munich with no sleep, Heiko Pulcher did me a huge favor. He plunked me into his Subaru wagon and drove me to the Das Holztechnische Museum Rosenheim (The Rosenheim ...
Video: Build Your Tool Chest Interior
A video with Megan Fitzpatrick.
In this video, Megan Fitzpatrick shows you how make and install the interior structures of a full-size English tool chest (in this case, an "Anarchist's Tool Chest") with three sliding tills and their runners, a combination hanging tool rack/backsaw rack, a floor till for full-size hand saws, and a moulding plane till.
Megan has built dozens of these chests for customers and has refined the techniques for making the tills, tool rack and saw till well beyond what is covered in the book, "The Anarchist's Tool Chest." Many of her methods make the interior easier to build and fit into the chest. Plus they are reversible (in case your heirs ever want to turn your tool chest into a blanket chest).
You'll also learn how to install the hardware: ring pulls for the tills, chest handles, hinges and a "crab lock." Finally, you'll see how Megan installs casters and deals with keeping the lid open. She discusses how to finish the interior (or not) and the paint she uses for the exterior of chests.
The video is nearly two hours long and can be watched one of two ways. You can stream it (after logging into your account here at Lost Art Press). Or you can download the video and put it on any device. The video is offered without DRM (digital rights management), so the files will be easily moved to any of your devices, now and in the future.
The video also includes Megan's notes on construction and sources for the hardware and tools shown in the video.