Dutch Tool Chest

Dutch Tool Chests gives you the in-depth instruction you need to build your own slant-lid tool chest – from choosing materials, to the joinery, the hardware, the interior parts that hold your tools and the paint.

At the same time, the book offers you detailed instructions on how to grow as a hand-tool woodworker. Author Megan Fitzpatrick offers a complete, clear and insanely detailed description of how to cut through-dovetails. Plus a detailed guide to cutting dados by hand. Plus rabbets, simple fielded panels, cut nails, screws, hinges and fitting chest lids. Building your own Dutch tool chest with the help of this book will make you a better hand-tool woodworker.

Dutch Tool Chests contains complete plans and cutting lists for two different sizes of this portable chest – plus additional plans for a rolling base that adds even more storage.

But the book is not just about building the exterior chest walls. Dutch Tool Chests shows you how to outfit the interior of your chest to hold chisels, marking knives and other pointy tools on the back wall. Plus saw tills and cubbies for jointer, jack and smooth planes.

If that's not enough, Dutch Tool Chests offers a gallery of chests from 43 other makers that show modifications and additions for you to consider. You'll find ingenious ideas for using the chest's tool bay (or bays). Clever rolling bases. Oversized (or undersized) chests. Mind-blowing uses of the back of the fall front and or/underside of the lid. And other unique solutions that set them apart.