I'm in the process of getting everything organized in my new shop and I'm doing everything mechanical in boxes and all my woodworking on pegboard and displaying vintage woodworking tools high with pegboard. Good thread with a lot of help for organizing.
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Well, I've had to do some things out of necessity. The biggest thing I'm doing right now is restoring an old craftsman chest. I'll have to post the link to that thread. Here's a few things I have already. Built the platform, the shelves and got the pool table up
I'm not really sure, this box was the smaller of 2 Craftsman left to us from my wife's side of the family. Her grandfather's.
And indeed, he was in airplane mechanic in Ohio
Right now I'm stripping it to bare metal and repainting. The drawers are in good shape but I guess I'm doing the same because it won't look right with the old red drawers.
The pencil sharpener has been removed lol although the day before I got the chest I did have a dull pencil and was...
Here's another old craftsman restore but I figured I'd start a thread on it cuz everyone gets different information and another one won hurt anybody. Forgot to take pictures with drawers installed but I realized I needed some as a started cleaning. Here's the before
Hey everyone,
Excited to be here and share everything from my workbench to squatrack in my new garage and learn some interesting new things! Here is the blank canvas I started with in June 2015 (after extensive cleaning!)