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.