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Haven't updated this thread in a while, but overall I've been very happy with my French cleat storage walls. I've made a few minor additions here and there over the last couple years, and this weekend I finally decided to do something about the chaotic pile of cordless tools and batteries that...

Yes, that's what I said too... :)

From the size of the tool and the slenderness of the handle I'm wondering if it's a plane adjusting hammer. Although most of the ones I've seen are brass...

In a recent Adam Savage workshop video he features this little hammer, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. The handle looks something like a jeweler's chasing hammer, but the head doesn't immediately remind me of anything I've seen before. It's almost halfway to being a gavel, other than...

An update on wall organization... I've pretty much occupied all the French cleat wall space with tools and storage. The back wall is all Akro-Bins containing non-aircraft hardware like nails and wood screws, plus a couple of small shelving units where I didn't want to cover over existing...

Thanks - Most of the time I leave my shop furniture completely unfinished save for a quick application of wipe-on poly on the working (top) surface. This one has no finish for the most part, just regular old birch ply from the orange store. The table top happens to be prefinished maple ply...

More quarantine woodworking... finished off the new workbench by giving it a big storage drawer and some cabinet doors for the router compartment. I didn’t want to leave the house just to go buy drawer pulls, so I made my own out of scrap hardwood - for which having a router table was quite handy!

Quarantine woodworking... you can never have too many workbenches, so I built another one with an extra twist. One end doubles as a router table, which is a tool I only occasionally have a use for, but there are times when nothing else will do the job. With the fence stored out of the way...

Thanks! Between you and me, before I post these photos I try to tidy up and hide the mess just out of view, so it doesn't usually look this nice in real life. :)

I set out to put up a couple of French cleats for wall storage of tools and materials, and ended up getting carried away and building a whole set of French cleat walls all around the workshop: I trimmed the parts cabinets to the wall panels to make them look built-in. I also installed a...

I built a rolling stand for my sliding compound miter saw. The design is a mixture of several different plans I'm sure everybody has seen, with one or two little tweaks: With the folding wings extended, the span about eight and a half feet: Instead of a vertical fence, I embedded a length...

Oh yes, the Sortimo boxes are outrageously expensive by DIY standards. I am only using them for aircraft parts, and will almost certainly put up some Akro-bins for generic stuff like nuts n' bolts. I view my Sortimo boxes as an investment, plus they're actually sort of reasonable by aviation...

This is something I did a few months ago, but forgot to post here. The size of my workspace varies based on what else is parked in the hangar, so my tools have to be able to move around. The bandsaw, bench grinder, 12" disc grinder, and 2" belt sander are all very useful for aircraft work, and...

Thanks! And yes, we are on an airport - really a dream setup for me. Although the RV-7 and the Cessna do tend to fight for space with the workshop tools! The RV-12 is a great airplane, I have about 30 hours in them and once got to ferry one halfway across the country.

These are T-Boxxes. Annoyingly, they've since changed the design from grey boxes with multicolored inserts to black boxes with black inserts, so if I ever add to my supply of Sortimo boxes it's going to set off my OCD. Luckily I have several empties stashed for future expansion. The stuff in my...

Sure, here you go. No drawings, but here's a brief description: The red toolboxes are sitting on a ladder-shaped base made of long 4x4s and shorter 2x4 stretchers. The base is less deep than the boxes, which gives me a toe kick area. The upright support frames are just square structures made...

I decided to make an investment in Sortimo boxes to store the majority of my small hardware. Feels good to get rid of all the old drawers, bins, boxes, bags, and food containers full of parts. I built these simple cabinets from birch ply and poplar, which gives me a place to keep the parts boxes...

A Cessna 140 and most of an RV-7 (project on extended hiatus). I'm really an amateur sheet-metal guy slash machinist, even though I'm currently on a carpentry kick trying to get the house and shop in order! The pliers organizers are from MLTools. I bought them in pairs from Amazon - slightly...

Thanks all. Yes, there are one-and-a-half airplanes in the hangar, which does rather cut down on the available space in the wood shop! Not a lot of visible progress recently, but I have got the tool drawers mostly organized. I still need to clean up and rearrange a few things, but I'm happy...

Ordered on the 30th, got the shipping notification email on the 31st, and received my order on the 7th. I should probably also mention that the way I resolved the discrepancy in shipping cost between Amazon and direct-from-distributor was to call their office in Georgia and harangue them about...