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I know it's a bit random... but pretty soon I'm going to need a practical place
to put my chisels as I buy 'em. I really love the old fashioned, "typical" rack.
For a pic of what I'm talking about check this:

http://pages.friendlycity.net/~krucker/Shop/chisel.jpg

I've been looking around and I can't find any plans to make one like that, nor
can I find any for sale. Maybe I'm using the wrong search words? So can you
guys help me out and tell me if there's an actual name for this style, and
where they are available? I would build but I'd rather buy. Cuts down the
work load! Happy holidays!

Jack, why not go to the lumber yard and buy a one by four?

Then take a 1/2 inch spade bit and make a bunch of holes spaced a couple inches apart. I suppose for the big ol' wide chisels you'd have to slot the hole to let the blade pass.

Couple of sheetrock screws and maybe a 90 degree 1by2 at the back and screw it to the wall.

We have confidence in you. Especially since this was your thirteeth post, this..... is your lucky day!

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I have posted other pictures of this before, but here is my chisel rack.



Then when I want to put it away, it fits in the door of my tool storage cabinet.  Like so:


The base slides under a couple of tabs in the corners that keep it from tipping out when you open the door.  It is a snug fit, so it will only come out when you slide it out straight.  If it is crooked it binds, but it stays and doesn't move around opening and closing doors.

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Waddy

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They are called thigamajigs around here.

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Guitars, guitars and more guitars.

You must be really tall to reach up for those Lie Nielsens, Todd!

I put mine in a drawer (or two or three), but for really wide ranging ideas
about shop set ups check out Taunton Press publications (they are the
publisher of Fine Woodworking magazine, among others).
Great books about all sorts of shop set ups.
-C

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Freeborn Guitars
and home of BeauGuard©

My chisel holder is a series of long magnets screwed to my wall. I know a guy who keeps about 100 chisels on his shops double-doors with neodymium magnets, as well.

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Bob Garrish
Former Canonized Purveyor of Fine CNC Luthier Services

After consulting my Fine Woodworking collection which goes back to the 70s, I've concluded that it's called a .......... chisel rack!

And I keep mine away from the part of the bench where they might accidentally find their way onto a nice soft spruce top.

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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I hope John Watkins posts on this...he has 97 chisels all neatly housed in several "chisel racks". Truly the "Mother of All Chisel Collections."

I, on the other hand, have a modest chisel rack but always seem to have one "go-to" chisel that feels more comfortable and effective that the others...and most of the other 8 chisels collect dust.

I also still have a security blanket!

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Here is the pic that Jack linked to. I just lay mine on a shelf, and they are always there when I go for 'em.

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[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]

Here is the pic that Jack linked to. I just lay mine on a shelf, and they are always there when I go for 'em.[/QUOTE]

The tenth one from the left... is that a chisel or a burger flipper?!

Those are some very nice chisel racks Waddy,Todd,and Bruce.
I really like that tool storage cabinet Waddy!
I usually just put mine in my toolbox but I like how handy these racks look.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

sometimes we seem to over complicate the obvious and seek a grandiose plan instead of just following our instincts like bruce suggests. does someone else always have to show us what to do. we are supposed to be sentient critters, aren't we?

I made my tool cabinet out of a failed drawer for a cabinet I was putting in my kitchen.  It wasn't square, exactly, so wouldn't mount right.  I then built a second one matching the not square one, and attached them with hinge, and mounted shelves, chisel racks, file racks, and places to put squares, and a few extra blades.  The front has peg board on it.  My walls were already full of stuff, floor to ceiling.  So it started with an error.

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Waddy

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Be careful about putting one row of chisels above another. It's easy to cut yourself on the blades of the upper row when you reach for a handle on the lower row. Todd seems to have them tilted so the blades rest against the back wall and the handles lean forward. That right, Todd? If so, could you show how you get them to sit like that?

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

I am with JJ, I own 10 or 11 chisels, 2 of them do it all. Its also a lot easier for me to keep just 2 chisels extremely sharp. I keep my chisels in sheaths made from masking tape in a cardboard box.

Howard, thanks for saving me a couple of potential slices to the hand! :)

Crazymanmichael, yes... sometimes it is best to just go for things. But being
stranded away from my shop on the holidays kind of prevents that option.
Plus, I'd rather have people like Howard share that tip than learn in a more
"unfortunate" way. Not everyone is as "sentient" as you are possibly. Cheer
up. It's the Holidays!

I keep my chisels in a drawer NOT collecting dust......

And I only use a few of them too, perhaps 3-4 total.

Mine is named Nancy.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Sony's too short to reach the drawer.  Unless Hesh has elevator shoes for him too. 

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Hesh, There Is no dust in your shop.Where do you really build your guitars?

Filippo buddy:

1)  LIFO - last in first out
2)  Imitation Tupperware - I am too cheap for the real thing and too honest to not return other people's Tupperware
3)  Good idea!  Sony is feeling under the weather at the moment from eating the plastic eyes out/off of his Christmas present stuffed Tiger..........

Waddy my friend are you volunteering to build Sony a ramp?

Bob buddy it's just easier to vacuum the walls in my shop with the small stuff in drawers......