{"id":3924,"date":"2021-10-10T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:44:13","slug":"workshop-tool-caddy-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"HOME\/DiY: Workshop – Tool Caddy, Phase 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What I wound up with, brought indoors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I followed up phase one of my tool caddy build, with the second step: adding a back panel\/spacer strips, for taller and thinner stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much to my surprise and delight, since my most recent major tidy up and reshuffle, whilst things are far from complete or ideal, I can at least work in the shed workshop space now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u2018instant access\u2019 tool caddy should help increase efficiency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cutting and gluing spacer strips for the back panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I used marine ply for the spacers, busking the dimensions completely. It would later transpire, rather miraculously, that these spacers turned out to be near enough the exact same thickness as a piece of random ply I bought from West End DIY. How unlikely must that be!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cutting spacer strips with the super basic sled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cutting stuff on the Kity is going well at present. Although I think the blade – the same one that was in the machine when I bought it – needs either sharpening or replacing. And the very basic cross cut sled I made\/adapted is doing sterling service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gluing the base strip on the rear of the tall segment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The strip that runs along the bottom at rear is there to stop certain things, such as rulers, dropping straight through. I chiselled a few little bits away here and there; not all the way through. Just sufficiently to add more depth for some of the tallest \u2018tall boys\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The back panel gluing up, clamped and weighted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After gluing the back panel in place I also screwed it in position. After which I planed some of the faces a little, to smooth and square things up a bit. Like Patrick Sullivan\u2019s version of this idea, which is my inspiration for this project, mine will have two more sections, or tiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single most satisfying part of todays work on this project arose out of a real pain in the ass: when I went to glue my spacer strips to the rear of the tall segment, I discovered there was a hump down the central axis of the chopped\/glued board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a planer-thicknesser for exactly<\/em> this job, but I\u2019ve still not got it hooked up to a motor, and running. I must attend to this ASAP! So I had to go old school, and simply plane the mother flat. That entailed sharpening my smoothing plane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time was, not that long ago, when I hated doing this, as I\u2019d spend ages getting nowhere. But I now have the right tools – a plane-iron guide, a whole range of abrasives, etc. – and a few planes in basically good shape, that just need fine-tuning type maintenance. So it was pretty quick and easy restoring a keen edge. And once done, planing the rear face of this block proved easy as pie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I followed up phase one of my tool caddy build, with the second step: adding a back panel\/spacer strips, for taller and thinner stuff. Much to my surprise and delight, since my most recent major tidy up and reshuffle, whilst things are far from complete or ideal, I can at least work in the shed … <\/p>\n

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