Another vanity project....any excuse to get away from working on the deck/garage roof! I made this chisel rack about fifteen years ago. It was meant to be temporary, but it has been in constant use and could quite easily continue for many years to come. The real reason for upgrading it is I need space for more chisels...
The original was knocked up from scraps of plywood and a few panel pins, maybe some glue...
I'm going to make something better from some scraps of walnut and oak. And no panel pins.
This is the basic concept:
Glue up in progress...
After flattening one side, planning to uniform thickness, and trimming to final size:
Marking out where to cut slots in the piece...
All the slots were cut on the cabinet saw and then cleaned up with a very narrow sanding block.
The back panel will be made from a piece of scrap oak - this piece came from a desk drawer that I broke up a while ago.
This is the basic concept; I will be attaching the leftover walnut strip to the top edge of the back panel, and then gluing this assembly to the front section:
This is after the back panel has been squared up, trimmed and the walnut strip added with a mixture of wood glue and pin nails. The two pieces were then glued together and left for a few hours.
I made some more trim pieces for the base and for the sides from walnut, these pieces are all planned to 0.20" thick, the same as the other walnut strips at the top.
This is the view of the base after the strips were added - the slots I cut for the chisels do not extend all the way through as a result.
This is the view from the back:
After mounting and filling with chisels. Straight after taking this photo, I took the chisels out of the rack and sharpened every one of them.
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