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Gerstner Tool Chests

Susquatch said:
I never questioned that for even a nano-second. It's a tool box. I have a little Grizzly one that I almost never use anymore. Too small. I used to use it for HSS, but even that outgrew it.

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Mine has no center key post and the bottom drawer is full length. I might change it over to small precision tools. But I suspect even that wouldn't fit.
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I hate tool boxes and drawers that are too small... for this reason alone I want to make my own large storage cabinets.
 
@TorontoBuilder : perhaps these pics and the Pdf will help you on your quest.

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I thought a bit about making a tool box. I think the key will be to make all the drawer parts and other duplicate parts as sets so you can dado or machine multiple pieces at once.
 

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Brent H said:
@TorontoBuilder : perhaps these pics and the Pdf will help you on your quest.



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I thought a bit about making a tool box. I think the key will be to make all the drawer parts and other duplicate parts as sets so you can dado or machine multiple pieces at once.
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Thanks Brent, I have all the hardware photos from Gerstner, and I will be ordering the parts above, but it would be nice if they put dimensions to them... ditto for their corner protectors, The dimensions that they provide is useless for seeing what dimension the parts need to be installed properly. The instructions are great and should prove handy

I've mostly figured out the dimensions, and yes I'll be gang cutting, routing parts like a production line, which is pretty much why I've decided to make multiples.

I got my drawer fronts and case layout almost worked out, only the thickness of the side panels hasn't been finalized. Instead of the bead milled into the drawer bottom I've decided on a faux ebony edge banded detail with a bead to make the drawers pop a little more. Still figuring the best handle design to compliment the drawer fronts

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Brent H said:
Are you making this out of solid wood? Drawer bottoms of metal? Etc etc
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The chest bottom and lid will be a mix of birch plywood with hand cut thick veneer and solid wood edge banding treatments for the structural stability. I'm undecided on the sides, we have so much maple I don't need to cut veneered panels, but I'm super frugal, and I like dimensional stability.. so veneered plywood with edge banding makes a lot of sense too. What to do what to do...

Speaking of edge banding, woodpecker makes a very good but expensive router bit set so you can use tongue and groove to affix edge boards from very wide to almost invisible edge. I'm using it to make a twist on the traditional gerstner drawer bead.

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The drawers will be solid maple sides, face and backs, with plywood bottoms. The drawer slides will be stabilized maple so they wont wear out in my lifetime. No metal bottoms, since I want wood mass to dampen fluctuations in humidity. For this reason the interiors of the drawers, lid, sides and front panel will not be sealed.

The drawer pulls like the accents of the drawer faces will be torrefied maple that is stabilized and dyed midnight black using cactus juice.

I wish I had an aluminum foundry permanently set up, so I could cast corner protectors from aluminum then bead blast them and anodize them black. I will try to make such protectors next summer, but can 3D print temporary ones for now.
 
TorontoBuilder said:
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Proportions look good, the top cross piece is sized to accept the Veritas spring pins. I've decided I'm not buying US products where an alternative exists. Blame it on the poor exchange rate and anticipated retaliatory tariffs. Yeah, that's the reason.
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I hesitate to get into this, but no tariffs if you live in the 51st state . . .

Before everyone piles on: 1) I’m 100% against this & 2) I want Alaska to secede, rename Denali and become a new Province.
 
Susquatch said:
Looks great John. You even managed to apply a curly maple pattern!

What is the bottom gap all about? A pull out and up front cover?
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The front rendering is incomplete as i assemble and tweak the rabbet joints etc in the model but I wanted to see if the visual aesthetic looked good. It does.

yes, the gap at the bottom is to fold and slide the front cover into as you surmised.
 
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