Neillarson wrote:

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

Think Modular. You're going to acquire new stuff along the way
- jaw chucks, live centers, tail centers, chucks, dividers . . .
So start with laying out all your lathe related stuff - chisels and
gouges, tool rests, centers, chucks, jaws, wrenches etc.
Group them Like With Like so you can find them easier. Make
wall hanging boards - with turned pegs - you've got the lathe, why
not use it. Will give you plenty of experience with various gouges
and chisels. I got really good with a skew turning a truckload of
pegs.

Layout the stuff that go together and work out a Minimum Foot
Print (even though it's going on the wall near the lathe, wall space,
like floor space is always limited - and precious. Once you have a
good idea of what can go where, mark their "centers" and turn
pegs - or drill holes - morse tapered things don't hang well off
of pegs.

With chisels and gouges - you want them quick at hand - but not
able to bump into each other. Edges hitting steel is a No No.

Here's what I came up with
- a module for centers, jacobs chuck, an awl, allen wrenches
and burning wires, dividers etc.
- a module for scroll chuchs (2) and jaw sets along with tool rests
- a module for the JoolTool sharpening stuff
- a "box" for chisels and gouges.
- a removable/ moveable shelf for the JoolTool which can be mounted
on either end of the lathe bench and slid foreward when in use and
bacl when not in use.

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...heBench10.html

Since these pictures were taken I've moved the lathe AND
all its accourtements. Remove some screws, move a module
where I think it'll work and drive the screws back into the wall.

For furniture making "bench tools, a wall hanging cabinet with
space for tool storage in the doors works well. You'd be amazed
at how much stuff you can fit in a small volume - and still be
able to see, and get to just about everything

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/W...olCabinet.html

The wall hanging tool cabinets sold me on the "modular" idea.
I've rearranged things a few times and changed out some of the
modules that didn't work as well as I'd thought.

Go modular and Like With Like.

charlie b