Originally Posted by carolaug
I love the tool chest idea!!!! That is AWESOME!!! Great way to hid tools if you do not have a cellar.
The first one I made about 40 years ago when I started this whole furniture making business. What the old time carpenters would do is make a chest such as that, and they would travel around by wagon and go up to the prospective customers place and open it up and display their fine assortment of tools and the fitted compartments that housed them, as an indication of their degree of expertise. The Blue one is more utility styled. It houses all of the wooden bodied planes. The varnished one houses the metal bodied tools.
John