Systainer Use for Hand Planes

[c_dwyer]

Hi All:
Do any of you use systainers to store & transport your hand planes?  If so, care to share some examples? Thinking of going this route and building an insert to house a few planes and sharpening items, and wondering if others have been there and done that.

Thank you in advance for posting examples.

 

[lwoirhaye]

Not really.  I have an L-Boxx-1 I have a jack plane, a surform block plane and maybe a block plane in, along with several other items I'd want by my side installing cabinets or molding.  Unless a problem came up that box would stay in the truck or at the bottom of a stack.

I carried a jack and a block plane in a Veto carpenter's bag for awhile but that bag got real heavy with that kind of kitchen sink approach.  I've been considering ditching the bag and making an insert for a large L-Boxx but making all the decisions about what to put in the box is kind of overwhelming. 

 

[Farming_Sawyer]

Depends on how many planes and their size... I should think a sys1 could hold a jack plane, a low angle block plane, a sharpening jig and a diamond grit block all held in place in kazen foam. In a sys2 you could have a bottom layer with a rebate plane, a small wooden chamfer plane and maybe a longer smoothing plane all set in foam on their sides with a top layer of the planes I first mentioned with the foam glued to an piece of 1/4" ply so it could be lifted out. Make this in a sys 2 combi with Some sharpening gear and bench dips in the drawer. That would make a road warrior trim and cabinet kit, but it might be a bit heavy to lug in and out every day....

 

[wpz]

Hi,

you can buy lie nielsen planes in a systainer from a German company called Dictum:
https://www.dictum.com/en/lie-niels...ry-level-plane-set-in-t-loc-systainer-703436#

 

[Farming_Sawyer]

Hi,

you can buy lie nielsen planes in a systainer from a German company called Dictum:
https://www.dictum.com/en/lie-niels...ry-level-plane-set-in-t-loc-systainer-703436#

More or less what I was thinking....

 

[Df1k1]

Hi,

you can buy lie nielsen planes in a systainer from a German company called Dictum:
https://www.dictum.com/en/lie-niels...ry-level-plane-set-in-t-loc-systainer-703436#

Whoa. That’s pretty sweet

 

[lerabotperche]

http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-and-tanos-systainers/show-your-systainer/?all
at least two examples here

 

[demographic]

Not realky a handplane box but I do have a Veritas low angle blockplane in a systainer with my drill driver and impact screwdriver, along with a few of my day to day common usage tools.
I have my jackplane in my toolsafe and that only really comes out when I'm fitting doors and am putting a leading edge on or taking the final shavings off.

 

[grbmds]

[member=42263]c_dwyer[/member] I store some hand planes (a block plane, a smoother, a tiny "violin makers", a spokeshave, and a cabinet scraper in a ingle Systainer. I have sometimes brought them with me but generally just use the Systainer to store them in.

No dividers or anything except I did line the bottom with Kaizen Foam to cushion them a little. They just basically lay in the Systainer, but it was an extra and I didn't have anything else to put in it. I think it works well for both storage and sometimes carrying them with me.

 

[Stunt]

I keep some in one of the new blue systainer 2 that just came out. Mostly the ones I'd use the most on sites, and a couple others that fit in.
It just has my Stanley #78 & parts, mini router plane, a small hand made luthier plane in a small Baltic Birch box, smooth plane, Stanley adjustable mouth block plane and a Veritas apron plane with the VPM blade. Also a desiccant pack to hopefully keep rust down.
The foam I used was left over packing foam from a jobsite that came with some lighting fixtures.
It was about half inch thick and I used 3 layers. Bottom layer was not cut for any.
Plane Systainer

 

[Mario Turcot]

If you go the systainer route, I suggest that you put a Silica Gel Packets in it or use something like

L.V.