Hanging Hand Tool Cabinet

[Coop]

Looking darn fine!

Sorry for the distraction but sometimes, looking at others shops, I see stuff that I wasn’t directed to see but catches my attention. Where did you get the drawer pulls for your sharpening station? 

[pkinneb]

On 3/22/2025 at 8:57 PM, Coop said:

Sorry for the distraction but sometimes, looking at others shops, I see stuff that I wasn’t directed to see but catches my attention. Where did you get the drawer pulls for your sharpening station? 

It's been a while so don't recall but I'll pull the article when I'm in the shop tomorrow and let you know. Pretty sure this was a Woodsmith article/plan

[Von]

On 3/22/2025 at 9:57 PM, Coop said:

Looking darn fine!

Sorry for the distraction but sometimes, looking at others shops, I see stuff that I wasn’t directed to see but catches my attention. Where did you get the drawer pulls for your sharpening station? 

+1 and +1

[Mark J]

I like the step stool.  Where did you get that from? 

[pkinneb]

On 3/22/2025 at 8:57 PM, Coop said:

Sorry for the distraction but sometimes, looking at others shops, I see stuff that I wasn’t directed to see but catches my attention. Where did you get the drawer pulls for your sharpening station? 

So I looked everywhere and could not find that article but here are the plans

https://www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/roll-around-work-cart/

And the pull material is 3/4" extruded aluminum drawer pull. Here is one example of many available online 

https://orangealuminum.com/pad63750/

On 3/23/2025 at 8:03 AM, Mark J said:

I like the step stool.  Where did you get that from? 

Here is this one I purchased

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LGS2YG9?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

FWIW while searching for the above article I saw this wood venison in Vol. 31 / No. 183 of Woodsmith

https://www.woodsmith.com/magazine/issue/183/

[pkinneb]

So last night I woke up thinking about the magnets I will be using to hold the doors closed and how seeing them was really going to bug me. While pondering the thought came to me why not bury them? I could use the Pantorouter to make quick work of it...hmm then I fell back to sleep.

Well this morning I set out to see if it would work, mainly would the magnets have enough holding power through the wood, so I set out to see. first I thought I would use a longer flat magnet on the cabinet that I could inset on the top and bottom. Well it worked great no issues with holding power at all

Then in the door I would use a round one again cut at the PR

While this proved in I was not sure my bar magnets would be long enough so I decided to go with two rounds instead. Each door will have one top and bottom. Then using scrap and file I made a quick plug

Flush cut it and with a quick sand was pleased with the result. FWIW I'm cheap so I actually pulled the magnet out before flushing the test piece flat  

Now before I can glue up the case I need the door frames done so I can mark and cut the slots for the magnets so back to dove tails it was

When I cut these after getting the blade started I cut all the way down on the front this helps me keep the saw kerf straight

While chopping out the waste I realized my only sharpened mortise chisel was too wide for the middle DT so I needed to sharpen up a narrower one.

Here is a Narex right out of the box...

 So I needed to flatten/ polish the back first

This should be good...

Then sharpened the blade

Then finished cleaning out the waste of the middle pin. Not going to lie its always satisfying to have one go together with no paring 

Now I just need to repeat that 7 more times 

 

 

[fcschoenthal]

Dang Paul, I'm gone a week and you're almost done with this.

Really some nice work going on.

[pkinneb]

Not much time today but I did finish up door one.

One more to go...

[gee-dub]

We all have these days on different projects.  Some times an hour shows massive progress and some times 4 hours doesn't show at all.  Ever onward!

[pkinneb]

Back at it. First up swap in a new Woodslicer resaw blade to resaw some ash.

This is for the door panels this stuff was a bit squirrely so I went almost an 1/8" thick and will take them down to final thickness 1/16" on the drum sander.

This should work. I will need to resaw some plain maple for the back side. I'm using 3/8" BB for the core.

Going down to 1/16" requires a sled so I  knocked one out quick since I didn't have one long enough laying around

While I waited for that to dry I knocked out the second door frame

That's it for today.

[pkinneb]

Finished cutting what I hope is all the veneer I will need for the project and then cleaned it up on the drum sander. FWIW these are the longest thin sheets I have sent through the drum sander and you need to hold them down on the platen as it feeds into the DS or they may buckle not so laissez-faire like in this photo...ask me how I know 

[pkinneb]

Busy week at the office so no workshop time until today. 

Started out by marking the area the fixed shelves will go in each door. With the joinery all done I don't need any mistakes...

Then milled some shelf stock up

Marked the location for the main shelf mortice in each door side

Then set up the PR to cut the mortise. I have two template holders so I can have one set up for up and down cuts and one for the side ways cuts. Well worth the cost especially if you wait for a sale which they have regularly 

With the set up done I cut the mortises

Then it was time to set up for the tenons. The beauty of the PR is once set up you can really knock things out fast, especially with the air clamps option. Here I use the shelf stock to insure the tenon is centered on the shelf

This swing stop lets you swap parts with out further setup 

I cut a tenon and immediately realize I mucked up! Forgot to change to the larger bearing, good thing this is a test piece so no harm done

That's better

With that done I just need to drill holes for the shelf pins so I can have adjustable shelves. 

With a fence set up at the DP this was a quick task

Time to clean up the door parts

It was at this point I realized that while I had run tests for the magnet cuts I had never actually made the cuts on the project...facepalm!

So I put the doors back together and marked the locations. Then I reset the PR for this task

I'll make the cuts in the AM but did make the plug stock using hand tools

That's all for today.

 

 

 

 

[pkinneb]

Got a couple hours in today.

My shelf pins came in. These won't be seen as I will add a relief in the bottom of the shelf

Next I routed the slots for the door close magnets

Once lined up I remove the tape and cut. I used tape to insure the were in the right spots a miss now would be bad 

Then worked out the door pull reliefs using the PR and a core box router bit

These should work well

[pkinneb]

With the deck done time to get back to this project. First step clean up the shop its a bit of a disaster...

Before

After

 

Next up determine what's left to do prior to glue up.

[wtnhighlander]

Funny, I spent the afternoon 'straightening up' my shop, and it STILL looks like a "before" photo...

[Coop]

Paul, if I tote everything out of my shop, onto the driveway, will you organize it for me? I would say re-organize but that would be an oxymoron!

[gee-dub]

My gosh, this thing is looking so good!  This is going to be a joy forever.  I love the fact that you use the little MF style finger plane.

One of my favorites for detail work as well.

Michael's design (or version 2 actually) was a total inspiration for my wall cabinet.  Mine is no where as elegant as his and yours but it was the kernel for my effort. Mine has been a joy for many years and will probably survive me.  Yours will do the same . . . rock on. 

 

[pkinneb]

Final finish prep and a coat of shellac in preparation for case glue up

[fcschoenthal]

On 12/27/2025 at 3:39 PM, pkinneb said:

Final finish prep and a coat of shellac in preparation for case glue up

Thank goodness. I thought that you had forgot about us.

[pkinneb]

Ok that was stressful glue up, glad its done 

Next up a coat of shellac and glue up of the doors. 

[wtnhighlander]

The joints look great!

[Coop]

On 12/27/2025 at 7:25 PM, wtnhighlander said:

The joints look great!

+1

[Mark J]

17 hours ago, pkinneb said:

Final finish prep and a coat of shellac in preparation for case glue up

Is the shellac applied to resist staining from glue squeeze out?   Very clean edge, do you tape off the surfaces to be glued, or just apply the shellac carefully? 

[pkinneb]

On 12/28/2025 at 9:05 AM, Mark J said:

Is the shellac applied to resist staining from glue squeeze out?   Very clean edge, do you tape off the surfaces to be glued, or just apply the shellac carefully? 

Yes the coat of shellac allows you to easily remove any squeeze out without issue. I just apply it carefully 

[pkinneb]

First up today steam out a couple dents in the cabinet

With that done I prepped and added shellac to the door parts

Then on to glue up

Next I need to start on the door faces so I started staring at the shop veneers I cut earlier this year to get a layout I like. This isn't to bad

The panel backs (inside face) will be out of the plain ash veneers

Hope to get these in the vacuum bag tomorrow but may work on the face frames first so I know exactly how big the panels need to be and also if I want to bag them as 2 or 4 pieces. They have some warp which may be easier t deal with if I do 2 panels per door.