For what it's worth...

I dislike stuff on shelves, they collect dust fast. So what I do keep on
shelves, I use the wire grid closet shelves. At least the dust falls
through to the floor.

I'm slowly adding doors to my open cabinets for the same reason. Also the
closed door looks a lot better than the cluttered shelf.

I lucked out and got an old laboratory cabinet for a workbench base. It has
lots of big drawers and some small ones. I'm slowly modifying them to hold
my hand tools. I find that it is as quick to go to the drawer as it is to
reach on the pegboard for things, and I can put more in drawers than on
pegboard.

In 10 years more I should be organized!

Old Guy





"Neillarson" wrote in message
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6 Days of cleaning and organizing, I finally got the new lathe to fit
in. Not well, but in. I built a tool holder for the lathe that mounts
on the table behind the lathe and high enough to reach all my tools.
I
thenb moved the lathe near a wall and mounted the rest of the items I
have on some pegboard behind it.

After my wife asked a few questions about how I store stuff, I
decided
to ask all of you this question.


How do you prefer to store your tools and accessories? Open racks
(pegboard like)? Cabinets? Tool Boxes?


I have found that I am not a big fan of cabinets, tool boxes or tool
bags. I like my tools out where I can see them and get to them
quick.Not through need, but I seem to use the right tool for the
right
job more often and spend a little more time selecting the tool than I
do looking for it. So, I have a LOT of pegboard and just a few
cabinets, and my main cabinets are either open (no door) or have a
glass door. Yewsterday I spent about 2 hours figuring out where to
mount some of my Pinnacle and Starrett measuring tools and now I am
looking for an effective way to store some items like my Incra and
Veritas gauges, dovetail gauges, marking gauges, enginners squares
and
one of those combination squares with 3 different level devices.


I do have some drawers that I built that are under some of my larger
tools, 3 drawers under my router tablke to hold router associated
tools, under my high speed grinder for nothing since it is usless,
under my carving table for carving wood storage, etc.