derekcohen
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A little more progress with the pine and makore tool box. What may be of interest to those reading are the tools chosen to be included. The intention is that these are all that is needed to do fine work when building furniture - to cover joinery, such as rebates, mortise-and-tenons, dovetailing for cases and drawers, jointing and smoothing. The box is small, and the challenge is to fit everything inside, as well as keeping the weight down. So far the total is 7 kg.
The plan is to make all the tools in the tool box. The only exception here are marking tools, but I may change my mind later.
The top layer, comprising three boxes, is done ...
There is enough space to slide a box along and get a finger under the side latch to open it ...
From the right, the chisels have been narrowed to these, with bevel edge from 3mm through 25mm, a fishtail for clearing pin sockets, and a 6mm mortice chisel. The handles are West Australian Sheoak, and all the steel is M2 ...
The middle box has the marking tools needed: Starrett 12"/300mm combination square (the blade is housed separately), a 4" Starrett double square, 4" iGaging sliding bevel (excellent copy of the Starrett at a fraction of the price), and a combination compass/divider ....
All tools are French fitted inside thick felt to prevent movement and provide cushioning during travel.
The third box contains several recently-made tools: marking knife (with interchangeable blades. Here sporting a double bevel), screwdriver (with several bits), kerfing chisel (for extending kerfs in half-blind dovetails), scratch awl (for positioning dimensions and starting screw holes), and a carbide rod burnisher for card scrapers ...
Regards from Perth
Derek
