Company Name: Gregg NovosadI thought it was time to make some heirloom quality furniture. The veneers are resawn and drum sanded to 1/16 inch.
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| Posted By: | Frank |
Great job! Great piece of work!
It's also refreshing to see one of these masterpieces with REAL tools in it -- sanders, cordless drills, even a light and a plug strip -- rather than the usual museum of molding planes and brace-n-bits, plus of course the 3,412 chisels accumulated through years of not dating.
Great work, and I hope you are getting good use out of it. Not exactly portable, though....
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| Posted By: | kol |
wholly cow I wish I had that tool cabinet. is there a way to get plans? Great work, very inspiring. I need to make me one of those!
| Posted By: | Gregg |
Kol, the plans were a kit bash of 2 articles from popular woodworking, one for a tool cabinet, the other for 19th century secretary (the center section). I wanted to do a period piece with all the hidden compartments, but this style doesn't go with my house, so into the shop it goes. I also used this project to try out all the different joiner techniques. This project hooked me on veneers.
| Posted By: | steve |
Greg,
It looks like this is loosely based on Glen Huey's design, right?
Great work! What kinda hours you have into it?
I am in the process of making something similar, but not quite as high-styled.
| Posted By: | Brian Sheldon |
I would be afraid to keep tools in it, it is a masterpiece! How long did it take to build? And how did you find the time to pay attention to such detail for shop cabinets? Nice work!
| Posted By: | Gregg |
It took 300 hours, but this was a learning project, I had never done dovetails or any veneer work. Plus the finish was brushed poly, which took time. I use to bruch most of my projects since I tended to work on them in the winter. Now a do about 1000 hours of work over the winter, and spray them all at once in the summer ( I don'[t have a booth, so I do it in the garage.) Way more efficient.
As for the plans, I didn't copy the first page of the article so I don't know who published it, but it was in popular woodworking. The middle section borrowed ideas from Popular Woodworking August 2000 Drop-Lid secretary by Troy Sexton and Fine Woodworking on-line video by Lonnie Bird.
| Posted By: | dwain geoghegan |
This tool chest you call it is a thing of beauty. I'm not sure I would store tools in it, maybe Gold or some other expensive item. True craftsmanship Great Job !!!
| Posted By: | Michael Dugan |
Niiiiiiiice!!!
| Posted By: | Garry |
Real nice piece of work
