tool box

No fancy job,,but a little box I made years ago from some scrap wood

We used to make those a long time ago in 7th and 8th grade shop class. The shoe polish box was only different with a 2 1/2 inch wide top. Used the same patterns with notes in the margins. Still have my shoeshine box ....50 years ago.

Nice work there! Ron MN

looks like a well built handy tool box.

Larry I have 4-5 of those type of tools boxes. My Great Grand Father ,that was the blacksmith, was also a good carpenter. He had these tool boxes with different tools for different wood working jobs. Example, one has all his wood chisels in it, another has his hand brace and bits, one has three sizes of hand wood planes, another one had draw knives and wood rasps. I use them and put them back just as he did all those years ago. He passed away in 1968 at the age of 89. He showed me how to care for and sharpen those tools when I was around 11-12 years old. He left them to me in his will.

I have shown my sons how to care for them and I am now showing my Grand kids too. The kind of surprising thing is the most interested and skilled wood worker in the youngest generation is my one 14 year old Grand daughter. Just before Christmas I gave her an axe that had been my Great Grand Mother's. The handle was shot. We looked around and found an Ash limb that was about the correct shape for a shorter axe handle. My Grand Daughter used all hand powered tools to make a new axe handle for that axe. It looks factory. She finished it with linseed oil and I showed her how to use a stone to put a razor edge on the head. She says that when she goes camping this coming summer she now has an axe to do camp chores. My Great Grand Mother passed in 1960. So now after 58 years another woman is back to using the axe for chores. I would guess that axe is close to 100 years old. Think about tools lasting that long????

Nice! I still have a coffee table I made in 8th grade Shop class. Would be 48 years old this spring.

Nice!

I sort of remember using one (not sure whose it was) when very young, but not since. However, reminds me of a very wonderful movie, "[i:530e1ef0f1]The Simple Life Of Noah Dearborn[/i:530e1ef0f1]"

I built one years ago, everything had a place, now my truck is my tool box and most things still have a place.