Functionally Assembled

 

After two weeks of charity work, it was time to get back to my hand tool cabinet project and finish up the doors. Since the panel on which the tools will eventually hang is comprised of plywood, I wanted to dress up the front just a little but in the same vein as the rest of my cabinets. I dug around in my scrap bin of wood and found a piece of something or other with a lot of defects that I thought I could cut around. After milling and cutting it up, I think it might be mahogany but I'm not sure. If it is, I don't know where I would have obtained it and I the only thing I can remember building out of mahogany was a box to store our silverware maybe 12 years ago or more. Anyway, it did serve it's purpose and dressed up the front doors.

Above is a picture with the doors fastened in place to the rest of the cabinet.

Above shows the outer doors opened for access to hand tools.

Above shows the inner doors open for access to hand tools and larger items. 

Overall, I am happy with the results though they arguably aren't my best work. Working with that hard maple was just plain hard. Next up, I plan to do a bit more sanding on the outside of the cabinet and probably apply a coat of oil. Then I need to take down the pegboard wall and hang this cabinet in it's place. There are some things on the pegboard that are too long to go into the cabinet such as my three feet level, steel rule and drywall square, all of which I will need to find another home for. Once it is mounted, then begins a long process of figuring out on which layer, which tools will go, how best to organize them to maximize the space and figuring out how to hang them inside the cabinet.