Since I had expected to be finished with Shad about now  I had decided to build a new wall cabinet to store my hand tools in. I have outgrown my bench storage and I am sick of the clutter on the bench.

After discovering the problems with Shad I went back and forth on which one to work on. I decided to build the tool cabinet so I can finish the shop rearrangement. It will make the repairs much easier and faster if I don’t have to hunt down tools and constantly having to clean off a space to work!

In case you didn’t know I build a little furniture every now and then as well as boats. But this project is not going to be furniture quality by any means. It’s just a little above quick and dirty.

I started by scowering my stash of oak. I am not a big fan of oak, except quarter sawn white oak, but my father-in-law gave me quite a bit. It was cut from tree’s in his yard a few years back. It wasn’t a great log and apparently who ever cut it really didn’t know what they were doing. It takes a lot of picking to find anything really good, but for a shop cabinet, I don’t mind flaws.

First thing was to run it through the planner since it is all rough cut. Sadie just can’t wait for the chips to pile up so she can sleep on them. Boy is she going to be disappointed when I get the dust collection installed!

About an hour and half later it’s all planned.  Anyone know where Sadie went??

I kept looking at these bad sections of board. It appears to have been a crotch. There is some bark in there too. They are a little rough but I have decided to use them for the doors since they are book matched and there is 2 sets of them. I wouldn’t use them in anything that might ends up in the house, but I just hate to waste them. It will be a little different than just a plain door.

After handling all that wood I was beat. Oak is heavy! So I called it a day. Next I will start cutting box joints to make the sides and trimming and gluing the panels for the doors.