titmas,

That is beautiful work, and the rendering was quite on even though it was an artists rendering. I'' be he(she) was pleased.

Do you have a web site?

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the comments and feedback. Kenny, Gidon, I've seen the Studley tool chest before. I think it was in a book I have on workshops. And yes I get and have looked through Fine Woodworking magazine. I thought maybe you guys may have designed one of your own that might be unique.

Titmas, I plan to build it with the same construction techniques I use in my furniture, but will use a mix of scrap wood. So it will have random pieces of tiger maple, black walnut, blistered maple, spalted maple, wormy butternut, etc. Everything in my shop so far has been constructed from plywood and red oak trim. So this will be the first "show" piece. I looking to have fun with it.

Thanks again guys

Hi Folks,

I am in the process of designing a tool cabinet to hold my most precious hand tools. I figure it will be approximately 4' wide by 3' tall by 8 to 12" deep, with two doors. It will hold hand planes from a 24" jointer to my smallest block plane and many in between. It will also hold marking tools, chisels, measuring tools, screw drivers etc.

Do any of you have a model or ideas or suggestions? I will share the final model and pictures with the group when I have completed it.

Gidon,

I admire you for being involved with your kids education that way. I wish more parents in the States were involved, especially in the inner cities. I'm 63, but when I went to school we had shop programs. In fact I graduated high school with honors in Industrial Arts. That meant I spent all my time in the various shops and liked it. We made tool boxes, bowls, night stands, trays etc. Small simple tables are great for kids to do homework or color on. Good luck. It sounds like a great project.

Thanks a lot Bob. That saves me some homework.

Thanks Gidon. Glad you liked it.

Bob, do you have a bigger picture or do you know of its existence. I might like to build one. I really like the design.

3eighty,

You are welcome. Hope we get to talk more on the new SketchUp Woodworking forum.

Joe....
http://www.srww.com

I recently finished a Six Pane Oak Hutch made of white oak. You can view it at the bottom of my gallery page at http://www.srww.com/gallery-fine-furniture.htm . Also, you can view a log of its construction on page http://www.srww.com/six-pane-oak-hutch.htm . Lastly, I have a number of furniture models available for free in native SketchUp files. See http://www.srww.com/sketchup-furniture-plans.htm . The last two (Office Table and Six Pane Oak Hutch) were modeled entirely in SketchUp and are quite complete. The previous ones were done in TurboCAD and imported to SketchUp, aprocess which leaves behind a lot of information like dimensions. So these models, while complete structurally, need some cleanup and dimensioning.

Joe....
http://www.srww.com

Alan,

Great site with lots of good info. I'll be reading through it when I get home from visiting on Cape Cod.

Joe.....
http://www.srww.com

Jerry,

I have a list of favorites on my web site. See http://www.srww.com/google-sketchup.htm towards the bottom of the page. I use CutList Plus too and find CutListAndMaterials.rb works well, though a little clean-up is needed.

Joe....
http://www.srww.com

Susan is right. There is no "Point at center" on my SU 6 either. You guys must be drinking a Ruby drink.

Joe....