| The toolbox is a fundamental tool in any shop. Not only does a toolbox protect tools from damage and dust, it also organizes them for efficient work-flow and quick inventory. In this book, Jim Tolpin offers expert guidance on how to plan and build tool storage boxes, cabinets and totes. Like its companion volumes The Workbench Book (The Taunton Press, 1987) and The Workshop Book (The Taunton Press, 1991), The Toolbox Book offers a wealth of new ideas for woodworkers. This fully illustrated guide to tool storage features full-color photos of beautifully crafted and ingenious storage systems. In this guided tour of some of the world's best tool-storage solutions, you'll learn how the toolbox evolved as an essential tool and how the site boxes of today have their roots in long-ago journeyman's tool chests. But this book also provides practical advice on how to develop a tool-storage strategy of your own. Jim Tolpin guides you through creating an individual tool storage system best suited to your needs - from planning, through selection of materials, construction and finishing (including special situations like waterproofing the lid of a box intended for a job site). This book is for anyone who works with wood, not just shop- based woodworkers, but also carpenters and builders. If you value your tools and want to find the best way to store or transport them, you'll find invaluable information here. |  |
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