Instant Access Tool Center
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2019
- Designing and building a case that provides instant access for most of the small tools that you use regularly. This portable fixture is set up so that you can easily access the tools you need, and also replace them the second you are finished with them, keeping your workplace organized. It protects small tools from damage or loss, and increases efficiency by ensuring that they will not get lost in workbench clutter.
Plans: this fixture needs to be customized to each woodworker’s personal needs and tools, so it makes little sense to exactly duplicate my layout. However, I will post photos of the case on my website, with dimensions, to help you get started with your own layout. Here is the link to my website:
psullivancarmel.wixsite.com/t...
I will list below links where you can buy some of the tools I show in the video.
iGaging adjustable squares: amzn.to/2XIrm0G
Woodstock machinist square set: amzn.to/2UydUux
iGaging IP54 electronic digital caliper: amzn.to/2IZmqB7
Gyokucho dozuki saw: amzn.to/2HtfTfZ
Suizan 6" dozuki saw: amzn.to/2NPT8no
Gemred digital protractor: amzn.to/2NSRSQh
Starrett rigid 6" ruler: amzn.to/2H5XCG1
DeWalt tapered drills w countersinks: amzn.to/2VKB0ht
Woodcraft socket awl: amzn.to/2tVtGnd
Diamond grit file set: amzn.to/2XITNeR
For the Veritas marking gauge and miniature planes, see the Lee Valley site at:
www.leevalley.com/us/Wood/Inde...
For links to earlier videos where I make some of the tools shown, see the following links:
• Making Detail Carving ...
or go to my channel. - Jak na to + styl
Four years later CZcams decided to recommend this video to me. I want to know how CZcams knew that today was one of those days. Several times today I "lost" a tool or part that had been in my hands just ten seconds earlier. Coincidence? I think not. ;)
I'm studying to be a teacher, and you've unintentionally created the best example of accessible design I've ever seen. You took hundreds of tools with diverse needs, and gave each of them a comfortable home. We often talk about accessibility in abstract terms when it comes up, but this is what it looks like, and I can't thank you enough for giving me such a perfect example to show people.
Great video best of many I've seen NO musak, good camera work, NO big EGO just education of the best kind. Thank you!
I really appreciate the use of Both metric and imperial measures. Being that both are functional in their own way, we should all be fluent in both "languages of measure" I notice that I also watched this about 4 years ago.... well, it is just as relevant today as it was then...
I have to say, your tutorials are actually enjoyable to watch. Everything explained in detail, but not excessively so. Build process well documented and supported by the design. Nicely done, Sir.
the VERY RARE actual process of Design. lay it out, think it through. good show Patrick.
I thought I was the only fella with a bench top that looks like a plane crashed on it. Great video and I’ve already started on my own small tool organiser
Actually,it looks like the English Master Dart champion took all the pieces and threw them in one shot and turned out looking good!
Молодец! Круто четко получается! Так держать. Поможем Добру стать сильнее!
@@andrewdarnley4608 My standard Dad-joke for first time visitors is similar (and I can slide in an humble-brag about being a lapsed pilot). *Don't worry, the haz-mat team has removed all body parts*
Thank you Sir for sharing! I learned a few things and plan to build something similar later this year.
PS: when the tape measure was hung I cheered out loud in satisfaction of the elegant simplicity!
I’ve been looking for inspiration for storing my own quick access tools and this is exactly the concept I wanted but couldn’t articulate. Your attention to smallest details and functionality is a joy to watch.
When this man posts, you watch. What an elegant solution.
This video HAS to be the most useful video I have seen here on CZcams. It is so much better that the bucket I currently use and so bleedingly oblivious.
Mr. Sullivan, I watched thousands of woodworking videos, you're the best teacher, presenter and professional woodworker on youtube period. Glad I found you, however, it's really very very sad that I found just a few posted videos of yours. Please try to share your experience with us more often. Thank you.
Not only a great video, something I really need, but I love the steps you laid out before you started cutting wood. One of the best diy videos I watched.
You are everything I aspire to be as a woodworker one day. I am only 21 and only have a small basement in my apartment with a tiny workbench a jigsaw and a drill but I am learning
I have most of these tools on my pegboard which is setup on the wall. The work table is in front of me with me facing the back on the wall. That is because I have space constraints and I need to film while I am working. I turn to the wall to pick any tool I need. It never occurred to me to put the stuff i regularly in front of me. This is a great solution. It would save a lot of time (and space on the memory card of the card too)
This is on par with the feeling I would get watching old episodes of Yankee Workshop. Thanks.
Better traffic if you get a free website with cheaper hosting that allows it to show up on all mobile devices. The link can’t be copied and used on a PC either without joining WIX I guess. Other than that, one of smartest guys on the web.
I forgot to return to tell you my son and I built a tool center like this for an electronics lab bench as a gift. Our woodworking skills aren't anywhere as good as yours but we decided to call it a first version, and I think it's being used and serving the purpose. We miggt refine it in future. Small tools are now in a known location and being returned, hopefully no scrambling for a tool just set down a few moments ago. And I have noticed when a tool leaves the lab, it gets returned. Very pleased, thank you for sharing the concept!
I built one to hold all the tools from a Chinese tool collection my mother-in-law bought me. It all came in a blow molded plastic case and at first I sort've sneered at it, but then noticed that when I needed a tool, that was the box I went to. Patrick's tool center idea fit the collection perfectly once the blow molded case died. I added a bunch of other stuff I use and it is crammed with the tools I once spent hours looking for. I just built a second one to hold all the metal files and rasps I use in my knife making. The third one will be to hold all my leather working tools. Patrick, this is a simple idea but so apt for the way I work that I have bought several of your designs now, based on how well this one worked.
I loved how detail oriented your video was. I even went as far as book marking your website.
The CZcams algorithm really came through here. I've just started the process of dealing with the chaotic clutter of my small shop, and this is absolutely perfect. I'm going to add a French cleat to the back, and I expect this to spend around 50% of the time on the cleat wall near my bench, and 50% on the bench itself, depending on what I'm doing. Thank you so much for this!
Cheers Patrick, showing your design process is as useful as the tool storage itself.
This is SO awesome. I was in my shop designing a what I call a sharps, marks, and cuts tray. Then I said to myself, I can't be the only person with this problem. Surely someone smarter has solved it before. Lo and behold! I LOVE IT! I am totally stealing this design strategy. Thank you Patrick.
This video was a joy to watch. I now have some hope of managing my tools AND art supplies. Thank you.
Wow, this is such an inspirational video. I've got to build me one and spare myself the time and agony from searching for "lost" tools in the waste basket. Thank you so much for sharing.
How do I love this. Let me count the ways. A wonderfully useful organiser that every toolshop can use. The sense of humour, the beautifully modulated voice and the proffesional way this video is produced and I am hitting "subscribe". Thank you sir. I am heading to my workshop to make one of these for myself, my father and brother.
I recently downsized to a condo and now work at a local makerspace that has the stationary tools but I found myself forever searching for the basic marking and measuring tools, bits, glues, etc. I love this concept and will adjust the dimensions to drop into a toolbox that I can keep on my car. I LOVE THIS!
This is a genius solution to a problem I've never been able to escape. Thanks Patrick!
New actual favorite woodworking channel. Incredibly efficient, practical, elegant, and economical solutions! So many other channels are all about how many woodpecker tools they can smash into each shot.
Excellent idea. And when I remove all those items from the tool wall above my bench, I'll have to buy more tool to fill the void!
Many many thanks for adding metrics measurements for overseas viewers...
it doesnt matter where in the world we are , THAT TOOL WAS RIGHT THERE 5 MINUTES AGO rings true for me too, nice tool tray
Sometimes I find my hand is still holding on to a tool that is no longer there
I think I will build something similar and slap a french cleat on the back so it isn't taking up my table space too. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan!
I've been looking for weeks for something just like this!!! I'm a huge fan of french cleats walls. It will be just what I need for working on my main bench, keeping my work surface clear, as well as carrying it to my layout table.!!! Thank you so much!
Patrick, you are a voice of calm and sanity from what seems like a social and political maelstrom. Thank you. I hadn't seen a video for a while and I was anxious that you had stopped production. This was worth waiting for. With much appreciation from Christchurch, NZ.
Great content here, very much appreciate you sharing your, "here's what works . . . " perspective, Sir! I cannot tell you how badly my bench needs this level of attention. Thank you.
Love it! That spatula hack is genius! I like that this can easily be built with scrap wood laying around.
Patrick, I know what you say about forgetting where tools are laying ,because at 79 I forget alot and thsi plan is very helpful thanks. Long live us old woodworkers.
I just built one and am loving my uncluttered bench with regular tools to hand. Many thanks Patrick 👍
What a great video! I have similar problems with organizing most needed tools. Last year I buckled down and learned Fusion 360 to design similar tool holders that could be built with a 3D printer. It is very nice to have the CAD files because I have changed my mind many times over the past year and making a new carrier is as simple as modifying the CAD file and sending a new concept to the printer.
Always good to know another woodworker has that same problem “ I just put that down where could’ve gone “ lol. Really awesome idea definitely need to build one ASAP thank you for sharing.
I’m going to show your video to my husband....he has stuff all over the place. Great video!
This is so awesome. I’m planning to start my trip down the rabbit hole of wood working in the Spring (Northeast living and no dedicated shop space means my ability to start is weather-dependent), and I have a habit of losing my tools A LOT. This is a GREAT idea and one that I will absolutely adopt. Thanks for posting.
I’ve watched 10s if not hundreds of videos on tool storage - “easy access” type design tool centers and this is by far and away THE BEST ONE; hands down. Thank you for this excellent design and presentation.
I love organization and you’re tops on it. I love that you laid everything out first on the tools you use.
Thank you for the wonderful video, a pleasure to watch your work.
I made one two years ago after a saw your video. Today I watched this video again before making my 2.0. I get rid of some tools I don't use often and make space for extra tools. Thanks!
This is one of my favorite videos on CZcams. Can't wait to build one and I'll be adding cleats to the back for wall hanging above my assembly table. Great job
Great idea! I have a tool wall behind me when at the bench but this idea brings everything to hand and avoids the inevitable cluster of tools on the bench 👍
I really appreciated how you went into your reasoning in depth! I've found a lot of people gloss over how they choose which tools they have on hand, but your criteria were very helpful for me even though I do very different work than you. Thanks!
Thank you so much for going slow enough and such details on the process of Actually Making It! Brilliant by the way; I think everyone wishes they had this for their bench. Great job!
What an inspired build and inspiring build video! The pace is perfect and you show just enough of your problem solving process to enable a viewer to replicate it for an entirely different set of tools, while not dwelling so much on details that it gets boring even for a moment. I will definitely build one or two of these!
This is awesome. I am going to have a pile of stuff of my desk for the next week deciding what is going into my tool centre. THANK YOU for the great idea and the full breakdown of what to do.
We all know organization is essential in small shops. This is a brilliant idea. Thank you.
Thank you for this. I had no idea that such a simple concept could make such a difference. I made one several days ago with your design and my bench tools in mind. I love it already... I can find things! After 50 years working wood you reminded me that the journey is never over.
Love watching a craftsman at work. This man adds true value to our world
I have watched a few of your videos and they are excellent! Im making my version of this right now. Being organized is super important to me. Thanks for the video!
This is awesome. This will help a whole lot in my shop. No more asking myself where I put it. No more walking across the room to get bits. Thank you sir.
As usual you never ever disappoint. Always on point. I really love your videos. I have started Leatherworks and this is heaven sent. I needed something like this to organize mauls, stamp tools and cutting tools. Tandy leather sells something similar for about 70 bucks. Thank you very much for saving me
Great project....I am redoing my workshop and this is a must build. I also had less tools and a bigger brain when I was younger. Now that I am semi retired, I find myself in the workshop more and this will make my life easier.
Less tools and more. Rain ha ha 👍
Patrick, thank you for this video and others. I built an "Instant Access Tool Center" very similar to your design and it has changed my shop work habits forever. Now I can actually find tools, most of the time...haha! Thank you for your effort and keep up the great work.
Built my first one a year ago, building a second one this weekend for my indoor smaller workspace. Absolutely amazingly useful build. Has saved me so much time and frustration looking for a small tool that I was just using a couple minutes before. With this I know exactly where it is and where to place it back when finished using it
Found your channel last night. Instant subscription. Really appreciate the meticulous and thoughtful approach to making these projects, as well as the non-focus on products from Brand X or Y. Keep making videos and I'll keep watching.
Thank you Patrick for an inspirational video. I like the way you emphasized the planning phase.
I think making something like this may well keep relationships together. I won’t be so grumpy and frustrated and I guess a better person to be with.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING VID! I can't wait to get started on mine. I thank you for sharing.
totally sympathetic regarding organizing tools used most often. I have already begun laying out the tools i think will be the most used. But taking a bit of thought as to how to lay them out. This certainly will help. Thanks a bunch for posting ! Very useful !!!
By far the best portable organizer I've seen. I like the thinking outside of the box with using the stainless steel from a spatula! Clever
Hey Patrick, you are a magician with tools. Please don't stop producing these amazing videos. Thank you for your generosity. Regards from Sydney Australia.
The best project video I've ever watched. Thanks for sharing your thoughts behind the design, it helps me think about some specialty tools I use and how to integrate them into my design.
I started watching thinking “why would I need one of these I have little places for all my things...” but I am 100% sold I definitely need to get onto one of these ASAP!!!
Wow!!!’ I’m impressed, all though I’m a woman I love to watch everything related to wood work etc. your tool keeper is fabulous
And You know what? You are talking to us. That's kind of unique skill atm. We have full support of what You do. No stupid loud music or noices comes from drill or hammer. Patrik - THANK YOU! Greetings form Poland.
This is genius. I'm off to find all my tools hiding under shavings and sawdust, and work out a plan for my own version. Thanks a million!
Thanks Patrick. This was a real treat to watch. This does not have to be intimidating and I think you have sweat all the details for all of us.
Another excellent video by Patrick Sullivan. This one came at just the right time. I'm in the process of making something very similar for my little shop. 9 x 13 is all I have so I have to make every inch count. I have a small drill press mounted to one end of my bench and I wanted to have all the drill press accessory items right behind it on a shelf. This has given me the innovation that I was needing. I will also be making a small parts home similar to yours but smaller. Thanks so much for your excellent videos.
I love it! I'm in the process of organizing my new shop after moving to a new location. This has great thought-provoking ideas and inspiration. Thank you.
Well sir, you inspired me to make a tool center very similar to yours. It usually sits at the end of my 6' workbench and has proven to be very handy indeed!!! I made it out of scrap wood I had on hand. As I live with it and use it daily for the next months or year, I will build a 2nd version out of some nicer wood, maple or oak or whatever. Thanks again for your inspiration. This saves me a lot of time and steps in my workshop.
Patrick
I stumbled across your video just as I was on the hunt for tool organizing ideas. I watched the video several times and decided to build my version. I took your comments to heart about not just drilling a bunch holes in a piece of wood. So for me that process was as fun as the construction. I probably took two weeks of just selecting the tools to go in the mix as well as where to put them. So the project was quite simple to build but it’s made my time in the shop so much more enjoyable. I use it everyday. Excellent idea thank you so much
Good one, Pat. I just reorganized the garage shop to improve access for my big power tools, your project will do the trick for my frequently used small stuff.
Hi Patrick: Many thanks for guiding us through the designing. It is the very thing I am looking for as a beginner weekend woodworker. Thank you so much!
How many strokes of genius can one video hold! Harvest the indexes from a HFT drill set, use a spatula, and come up with that modular build, genius I say!
Patrick! I saw my life when you said how could it disappear! My response to lost objects is "It has to be within arms length since I haven't moved, right? Nevr seems to happen though.That policy of once used then it returns home is hard to get used to, but I have about a 50% success rate. Your solution is as my friend from the UK would say is "spot on!". Thanks for posting this.
I love your videos. Thanks for making them so informative and relaxing at the same time.
An excellent idea, rendered useful by your step-by-step instructions. You hit so many nails on the head in this one! I’m sold. Building one of these to clean up my workbench during my upcoming vacation. Thanks a million! 👍🏻👍🏻
I echo the other comments, and I will say: This is not one of, it is THE best CZcams videos I have ever watched. Cannot thank you enough.
One more excellent video for the BEST of CZcams!! Thanks from Uruguay!
Patrick, this is a great demonstration of workmanship, creativity and design to solve a basic problem. I will rise to the challenge and replace my cobbled together holey stand that I made several years ago. Then spray painted it bright green so I could locate it in my peripheral vision. Guess that was a throwback to my early days in surgery when we wore green gowns. New one will be light blue
Thank you. a great design. I am setting up a new shop and just completed my workbench. This is exactly what I needed. I have subscribed.
Mr. Sullivan, I am an organization nut. It drives me crazy if a tool is not in it's proper place. And I love this small tool organizer. Gonna build one right away. Thanks for the idea!
I am definitely making one of these. Thank you for taking the time to share your build. It was inspiring 👍🙏
This is going to be my first proper build..... Brilliant design to build format!!!.... Thank you
Such an excellent video, thank you! I am almost 70 and only started wood work a couple of years ago. I wish I’d seen this before I started building my tool wall (in a spare bedroom! I’d still like to make a small one though, SO good!
Love your videos, you are very informative, clear and insightful. I commend your efforts to show how you build and manufacture your tools and projects. I’m both grateful and inspired.
I love this! Such a simple but clever idea. I love anything that helps make time in the shop more productive, fun and less stressful. It brings me joy to see all the tools neatly arrayed and immediately available for use. I think Adam Savage calls this sort of thing 'first order storage', because it only takes a single step to grab the tool you need (as opposed to opening a drawer, and then selecting the tool. Or worse, opening a cupboard, getting out a tool caddy, and THEN grabbing the tool!). Also your presentation style is lovely, so calming. I hope you keep making lots of welcoming and useful videos.
Hi Patrick. this is a really great idea. There is nothing worse than searching for the item you need when it wants to play hide and seek. A big thank you for providing dimensions in metric. I wish more could do the same as I really struggle with imperial waffle.
I'm so building this. I'm not a wood worker but i've been known to build things. I mostly do Electronics as my past time and I think this will keep my electronics hand tools organized.
What a lovely, well thought out project. I'm definitely going to make myself one - once I find all my tools. 😉
Thanks for sharing, this is exactly what my shop needs right now. i will be making a version of this for myself in the very near future. Thanks again
Thanks sir, happy i watched this in my 20’s
Exactly what I need right now! Drawers are no good for small tools thank you for sharing the plans for free!
same here. I am a messy sod.
Excellent idea! I have a very small shop, which even being small I always lost my stuff in the middle of everything. Having such "mobile on the go" tool holder should really solve my problem. Thanks a lot for sharing the idea!
Best video I've seen in years. Thanks Patrick.
It really amazes me how much skill You-tubers have.. this is a very detailed item.. imagine.. you even put in a adjustment for the knife... very nice work! Thank you for sharing.