Travel Tool Chest & Workbench with Integrated Vice

[Dr.Al]

Thank you for the kind words

[mwmkravchenko]

I labour of love for sure. Very thoughtfully designed. I have been a Cabinetmaker for over 40 years, and I have not ever taken the time to do something like this.
Hat is off to you sir.

Mark

[Jon]

Congratulations Dr.Al - your Tool Chest Workbench is the Homemade Tool of the Week!

Historically, it's been difficult for woodworking tools to win this award, but this excellent tool chest is an obvious choice this week.

Some more good builds from this week:

Lathe Tool Post Cap by hersch_tool
Knurling Tool by The Hobby Machinist NZ
Adding Pre-Flow to Spool Gun by Gadgeteer
Double Ratchet Lathe Chuck Key by Mook
Center Finder by orioncons36
Adding a Spool Gun to a MIG Welder by Gadgeteer
Tool Rests by The Hobby Machinist NZ
Brass Hammer by orioncons36
Converting a Mechanical Timer to a Countdown Timer by rgsparber
Miter Saw Stand by Making Stuff
Camera Gantry by hwmrob
Steady Rest by Make Things

Dr.Al - you'll be receiving a $100 cash prize, in your choice of Amazon, PayPal, or bitcoin. Please PM me your current email address and prize choice and I'll get it sent over right away.

This is your 4th Homemade Tool of the Week win. Here are all of your Homemade Tool of the Week winning tools. Congrats again

Slow Speed Grinder by Dr.Al

tags: grinder, disc

Tap & Die Storage by Dr.Al

tags: storage, tap & die

Shooting Handle by Dr.Al

tags: handle, plane

Tool Chest by Dr.Al

tags: tool storage

[Philip Davies]

Greatly impressed! I think that you can consider this a masterwork, so put your mark on it, where it can’t be seen! You mention some innovative ways to deal with humidity changes, what are they? It’s Surprising how light it is! I don’t think I could have done a better job.

[Dr.Al]

Greatly impressed! I think that you can consider this a masterwork, so put your mark on it, where it can’t be seen! You mention some innovative ways to deal with humidity changes, what are they? It’s Surprising how light it is! I don’t think I could have done a better job.

"Innovative" might be stretching it a bit - more "new to me". Most of the stuff I've made (or seen) has been four-sided solid wooden frames. The fifth/sixth side would be loose (e.g. a box base sitting in a groove) or relying on plywood's dimensional stability (e.g. plywood boards nailed into the back of a frame). I needed something that would be robust enough to clamp stuff to and to act as the fixed jaw of the vice, so the approaches I'd seen before wouldn't really work.

My approach was to have narrow slats with mortice & tenon joints into the top and bottom. They'll still expand/contract a bit across the width, but they're narrow enough that the expansion/contraction shouldn't be a problem.

Like I said, I doubt this is exactly earth shattering or patent worthy, it's just it was new to me and it was nice to find my own way to solve a problem.