Tapping the knowledge of dozens of top-shelf woodworkers, Scott Landisâ€™s The Workbench Book, and Jim Tolpinâ€™s The Toolbox Book are filled with inspirational photos and drawings that you can use to enhance your workbench and tool storage needs. John Whiteâ€™s Care and Repair of Shop Machines completes the workshop triumvirate. The authorâ€™s straightforward advice for repairing and setting machinery will help you make the most of every machine in your shop.
Finding a toolbox for a mechanic, for his hand tools, is not a big challenge at all - there are dozens of the tool boxes available on the market, from huge roll-around shop cases to small metal boxes. Plumbers, electricians, and farmers are well served, too, with everything from pickup-truck storage to toolboxes and belts. But, if you are a shop-bound woodworker then the case changes. You get to need a tool box that suits the range and variety of hand tools that most woodworkers like to have. For those who deny making do with second best, there's only one solution, youâ€™ve to build a wooden toolbox that should be designed expressly for a woodworking shop.
When this book showed up at my studio I was very sceptical. Yet another â€œbook of everyÂ­thingâ€�? But after spending only five minutes skimming through it, I learned about a couple of storage ideas my shop needed, some cool new jigs that would come in handy and a few tricks to make my time in the shop more enjoyable and productive. There will be hundreds of ideas in here you will have no interest in whatsoever, but thatâ€™s all right â€¦ there are over 650 ideas in total, so some are sure to tickle your fancy.