Rich's Woodcraft: Project Cleanup (spoiler alert: includes tool porn)

For me, as major projects come to a close, I spend time in the shop doing those small jobs that occur to me when in the middle of something big. Gives me a chance to clean things up and recharge before diving into something new.

First off though, the bedroom furniture is ready for delivery, my son is moving from an apartment to a house in a month or so, so its being stored here getting a bit of sun to tan the cherry a bit more. I must say they are aging nicely.

The side panels are the same on all pieces,
cherry from my hometown, should have been firewood!

Lots of storage here

The dresser provides lots more storage options.

In addition to the Chest and Dresser I made a special surprise to go with them, more will be revealed in time once the surprise is gifted to its unsuspecting recipient...

Organization to feed the OCD soul...

Tool Chest Willy Nilly

When I made my bench-top tool chest I lined the drawers with leather and placed the tools inside loosely until I decided how I wanted them to be organized. This became an annoyance after a while as things slid around and hit one another as the drawer was opened and closed. So I decided to fix this; I bought some of the 30mm layered foam from LV and prepared to work the drawer layout. Before making a cut I decided I wanted to deal with my plane storage area as well, as it was becoming overcrowded with a few new additions. :-) This meant moving to a bigger drawer and thus it became a bench drawer re-org project.

The foam is quite easy to use, but I did not follow their directions where it showed scooping out what you don't need which was very tedious. Instead I drew around the item, cut all the way through with the knife and then shaved the cutout piece to the thickness I wanted to raise the item to the proper height. This let me cut sections of the piece to completely support the tool that had a staggered profile, like the marking gauge. This is the top drawer of my workbench so these are all right at hand and are always where they need to be - wish I had done this years ago.