DIY Metal Tool Cabinet

[Making Stuff]

Made my own tool box, but it weighs more like a vault. Hope you enjoy!

[DIYer]

Thanks Making Stuff! We've added your Metal Tool Cabinet to our Toolboxes category,
as well as to your builder page: Making Stuff's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Metal Tool Cabinet by Making Stuff

tags: toolbox, cabinet

[Skun Knuckles]

Good job.
Like you said you could buy one, but I don’t think any you get these days would be as strong as what you’ve built.
Cheers.

[Making Stuff]

Good job.
Like you said you could buy one, but I don’t think any you get these days would be as strong as what you’ve built.
Cheers.

Thanks a bunch!

[wizard69]

Nice work on that tool box. I was just over at Horror Freight looking at tool boxes and left not liking what I saw. What is cool with your approach is that draws can be designed to specifically meet your needs. Now all you need ot do is to fill it up with tools.

[rgsparber]

I sometimes get that make/buy comment. Why go to a nice restaurant for a meal when you can pay someone to go for you?

I appreciate that you shared the missteps too. I don't learn that much from watching everything go smoothly.

Your toolbox should outlast the human race. Well done!

Rick

[Jon]

I've come to feel sorry for the people who present that old make/buy argument. The enduring satisfaction of creation is a rich and fulfilling experience, and they're missing out on it.

[rgsparber]

I've come to feel sorry for the people who present that old make/buy argument. The enduring satisfaction of creation is a rich and fulfilling experience, and they're missing out on it.

On the other hand, they have mastered the “buy it now” button.

Rick

[mklotz]

I've come to feel sorry for the people who present that old make/buy argument. The enduring satisfaction of creation is a rich and fulfilling experience, and they're missing out on it.

Even more so when the ingenuity of the creation is much more impressive than the creation itself.

[Jon]

Yes, many of the tools people build here are of course useful (they're tools, after all), but there is a hidden element of a homemade tool as a sort of Proof of Ingenuity, like a solved puzzle. And the intellectual satisfaction of that proof sometimes provides greater value than the utility of the tool itself.