I have a lumber problem

This time it's for the pergola.  It was a good deal for redwood, what can I say?  I have projects for the black walnut...  13' long clear boards from the same tree, lots of possibilities.  Curly maple with lots of character?  I'm sure I can find something to do with that!

Needed some redwood, why not get some walnut and maple while I'm at it?  Redwood is pretty nice, a little short, but it's just so hard to find dimensional.  I'll make good use of it for the pergola's. 

Looks messy, but it was a lot worse.  French cleat wall just to hang up stuff and get it off the floor.  Used to store lumber here vertically, but it just didn't seem to store much and boards were hard to get to, especially if they were right at 8'.

Went to the plywood store to find some cheap plywood.  The cheapest they had was pre-finished birch plywood.  Guess what was on the other side?  The nicest cherry I've seen on plywood.  Felt a little guilty about making a french cleat wall and a router table with cherry plywood, but I'll get over it.

William Ng School and Dutch Tool Chest with Chris Schwarz

Was at the William Ng school of woodworking to build a dutch tool chest.  Fought a cough and cold the whole time there and for some time afterwards, but learned a lot and discovered neat little details everywhere.

My completed tool chest.  Used copper nails and hardware from Lee Valley.  Some of it was pretty crooked (the hinges and the hasp) but oh well.  I really like the copper nails.

Decided to french fit all the tools in the chest so they wouldn't bang into each other.  Making the wooden holsters for the block planes simply took forever.  Used all sorts of scraps which was kinda nice, some of those pieces I've been saving forever.

Decided to put a drawer in the chest for the bottom part.  The section without the drawer is plenty tall enough for planes and such, but a drawer allowed the use of the space left without having to stack things on top of one another.  It really does hold a lot of tools.

Aerangis time lapse - sort of

Shot this over something like 2 weeks and went though quite a few batteries.  Canon 70d kept turning off, still couldn't get to the bottom of that one...  Gave up on the movie because I simply bumped into the tripod too often and had to change the shot as the spike moved.

Macro shot of the shop

On a 10mm? sigma lens.  Can't see the lathe and some of the stuff by the table saw, but a picture of the garage when I used to be able to park in the car in there.