FuturShoc
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I decided a few years ago that I was tired of futzing around with all of my little jars and boxes of screws and small parts containers. Though I inherit a hoarding tendency when it comes to these things from my late grandfather, an archetypal Depression-era saver and a repurposing genius.
A parts cabinet of some kind has been on my todo list since then. I have a history of picking up a handy cabinet of some sort or another, pressing it into service and later discovering it doesn't fit my needs as well as I had hoped. I then sell it off at a loss and keep looking for the just the right fit. So, the end result tends to find me building a custom job from scratch because I'm way too picky about that Perfect Solution. The problem with this approach is that the custom cabinet and fixture list gets so long that I can never find time to produce projects in the shop like furniture for my house. So, sometimes I need to reconsider a prefab solution for the sake of moving on to the rest of the todo list.
Yesterday I stumbled on a great cabinet at my local ReStore. Finding exactly what I need/want at the right time is always tricky with the ReStore, but yesterday the stars seemed to align.
A great deal at 25 bucks, I'd say.
As a bonus, I had a formica cutoff lying around from another project and it happened to be *exactly* the same width and the perfect depth to allow me to pull the cabinet forward from the wall a bit to create a useful top space.
It was a fine afternoon spent cleaning up the space for it and organizing all my parts, hinges and bolts into it. I often enjoy that process as much as I do working on projects in the shop.
A parts cabinet of some kind has been on my todo list since then. I have a history of picking up a handy cabinet of some sort or another, pressing it into service and later discovering it doesn't fit my needs as well as I had hoped. I then sell it off at a loss and keep looking for the just the right fit. So, the end result tends to find me building a custom job from scratch because I'm way too picky about that Perfect Solution. The problem with this approach is that the custom cabinet and fixture list gets so long that I can never find time to produce projects in the shop like furniture for my house. So, sometimes I need to reconsider a prefab solution for the sake of moving on to the rest of the todo list.
Yesterday I stumbled on a great cabinet at my local ReStore. Finding exactly what I need/want at the right time is always tricky with the ReStore, but yesterday the stars seemed to align.
A great deal at 25 bucks, I'd say.
As a bonus, I had a formica cutoff lying around from another project and it happened to be *exactly* the same width and the perfect depth to allow me to pull the cabinet forward from the wall a bit to create a useful top space.
It was a fine afternoon spent cleaning up the space for it and organizing all my parts, hinges and bolts into it. I often enjoy that process as much as I do working on projects in the shop.
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