glenn bradley
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I keep my 1/4" - 1" Forstners out in the open along with a set of twist and brad point bits. Somehow my larger Forstners gathered there as well. As I plan for the new shop I want to move things into a wall cabinet near the drill press and out of my faithful old Craftsman red metal tool box top tray. I'm no snob but I would like the C-man metal box out of the main shop and dedicated to things one might expect in that sort of tool box; wrenches, sockets, sledge hammers, bolt cutters, pliers, etc. etc.
To that end I was playing around with a lot of wall cabinet formats to hold things involved at the drill press. I soon realized I was trying to make room, right at hand, for things that I only occasionally use. My best shop organization efforts have been storing things used daily near at hand, things used weekly a few steps away, things used less often farther than that, etc. . . . until I have to leave the shop to go get them .
I decided that my larger Forstner bits need to be near but not right out in the open. Some previous re-org efforts had yielded an open drawer in the DP base cabinet. My son in law dropped off some packing foam that he had come across at work headed for the recycle bin. He has seen some of my dumpster-diving inventions and knew I might like to have the foam.
Anyway . . . quite talking Bradley and get to it already . . .
Some foam, a cutting mat and a razor knife plus a little quick set glue.
A piece of scrap cut as a divider.
I'll play with this for a while and see if it sticks.
To that end I was playing around with a lot of wall cabinet formats to hold things involved at the drill press. I soon realized I was trying to make room, right at hand, for things that I only occasionally use. My best shop organization efforts have been storing things used daily near at hand, things used weekly a few steps away, things used less often farther than that, etc. . . . until I have to leave the shop to go get them .
I decided that my larger Forstner bits need to be near but not right out in the open. Some previous re-org efforts had yielded an open drawer in the DP base cabinet. My son in law dropped off some packing foam that he had come across at work headed for the recycle bin. He has seen some of my dumpster-diving inventions and knew I might like to have the foam.
Anyway . . . quite talking Bradley and get to it already . . .
Some foam, a cutting mat and a razor knife plus a little quick set glue.
A piece of scrap cut as a divider.
I'll play with this for a while and see if it sticks.