The Toolbox Book: A Craftsman's Guide to Tool Chests, Cabinets and Storage Systems
The Toolbox Book: A Craftsman's Guide to Tool Chests, Cabinets and Storage Systems book cover

The Toolbox Book: A Craftsman's Guide to Tool Chests, Cabinets and Storage Systems

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Taunton Press
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Jim Tolpin has been a woodworker for more than 30 years and has written a dozen books on the subject, selling more than 750,000 copies. He teaches woodworking for a living at his school, The Port Townsend School of Woodworking.http://www.jimtolpin.com --This text refers to the paperback edition. In this guided tour of some of the world's best tool-storage solutions, you'll learn how the toolbox evolved as an essential tool and how the site boxes of today have their roots in long-ago journeyman's tool chests. But this book also provides practical advice on how to develop a tool-storage strategy of your own. Jim Tolpin guides you through creating an individual tool storage system best suited to your needs - from planning, through selection of materials, construction and finishing (including special situations like waterproofing the lid of a box intended for a job site). --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Features & Highlights

  • A complete survey of toolboxes for everyone who values tools. Popular Fine Woodworking author Jim Tolpin's illustrated guide shows tool storage solutions from rugged, old-time journeymen's chests to today's versatile truck boxes. Tool users learn to plan and design boxes to increase productivity, save time and prevent loss or misplacement of their most valuable assets.

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Inspiration to create

I came across this book at an estate sale where I also bought a several vintage Stanley rabbiting planes (i.e. no 45) and a Disston carcass saw. I later figured how to use the saw, self taught although I used a panel saw and cut nails growing up. As the tool collection grew with Bailey planes, backsaws, rasps, and chisels I needed a tool chest to store them all. Using the drawings and pictures from the book I was able to come up with a design that works for me. Yes its a compilation of different types, functions and not too technical. But it inspired me to build what keeps my tools safe.
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Formatting is the worst I’ve seen

The kindle format of this book makes it unreadable , I want to send it back, captions for images are not on the page with the image some columns of text are 6 characters wide. Image quality is awful, I am not sure if this Amazon or Taunton fault, truly awful experience