Instant Access Tool Center
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 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. 
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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!
Four years later RUclips decided to recommend this video to me. I want to know how RUclips 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 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.
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...
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*
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.
This video HAS to be the most useful video I have seen here on RUclips. It is so much better that the bucket I currently use and so bleedingly oblivious.
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.
This is on par with the feeling I would get watching old episodes of Yankee Workshop. Thanks.
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!
This is a genius solution to a problem I've never been able to escape. Thanks Patrick!
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.
This video was a joy to watch. I now have some hope of managing my tools AND art supplies. Thank you.
The RUclips 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!
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
Cheers Patrick, showing your design process is as useful as the tool storage itself.
We all know organization is essential in small shops. This is a brilliant idea. Thank you.
Love watching a craftsman at work. This man adds true value to our world
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.
When this man posts, you watch. What an elegant solution.
I just built one and am loving my uncluttered bench with regular tools to hand. Many thanks Patrick 👍
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.
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!
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 IS AN OUTSTANDING VID! I can't wait to get started on mine. I thank you for sharing.
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!
You had me hooked with the “where could it have gotten to? I just had it? Thanks for sharing the cure
Love it! That spatula hack is genius! I like that this can easily be built with scrap wood laying around.
An excellent idea. I’m going to go with the basic concept, but I think I’ll add a magnetic strip to the front for tools that don’t quite work I. The slot idea.
Thanks for posting!
15:14 looks so good, every tool easy to reach and store, perfect !
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.
I loved how detail oriented your video was. I even went as far as book marking your website.
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.
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 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.
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.
Many many thanks for adding metrics measurements for overseas viewers...
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
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!
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 👍
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.
Thanks sir, happy i watched this in my 20’s
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.
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.
I’m going to show your video to my husband....he has stuff all over the place. Great video!
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 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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 👍
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.
I love your videos. Thanks for making them so informative and relaxing at the same time.
This is one of my favorite videos on RUclips. Can't wait to build one and I'll be adding cleats to the back for wall hanging above my assembly table. Great job
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
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
What a lovely, well thought out project. I'm definitely going to make myself one - once I find all my tools. 😉
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.
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
In 10th grade in 1970 my shop teacher had a favorite saying, everything has a place and in every place has a thing. So I learned a basic principle in life. I build model cars and trucks and have always kept things organized. My.wife long ago tried to label everything. I told her I didn't need it. I now can almost grab tools without looking.
Talk about labeling things, years ago when our first child was around six months old my wife and I made labels for various parts of our baby's body. Like, the nose, cheek, ear, forehead, hand, finger, thumb. Nothing too personal. Then I took a photo of the baby, blew it up and hung it on the wall. We did it for the other two kids and they have done it for our grandchildren.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
You’re 100% correct with looking for tools a in workshop, so in my electric bike workshop i have just emptied a cupboard right next to the workbench and set it up to hand tools which i use on a regular basis and it’s great, just got to finish it.
A very interesting video you made a brilliant job of it and now you can find your tools in a flash
Thank you
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.
That’s a great add on to any workbench. I built something like it years ago for my bench but on a smaller scale as the tools I use to build RC planes are smaller.
It's always better to have An idea than NO idea! Thank you for sharing your ideas!
One more excellent video for the BEST of RUclips!! Thanks from Uruguay!
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!
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
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.
I echo the other comments, and I will say: This is not one of, it is THE best RUclips videos I have ever watched. Cannot thank you enough.
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.
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!
Organization is very important, huge time saver (time is Money)great video
Great idea for a tool center. Great design, excellently well edited video, quality craftsmanship and not a bad job on the BS narration.
Marriage, wives and tools should never be discussed in the same conversation.
Really enjoyed your vid and it is an excellent video.
From Missouri
Just finished building my own tool center....thanks so much for the terrific design! I should have built one a long time ago. Added a French cleat for versatility and use on my tool wall.
I am definitely making one of these. Thank you for taking the time to share your build. It was inspiring 👍🙏
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.
I do leather working, and I was always looking for big blocks of wood to drill holes in and make holders for punches etc. (I clumsily made one) I never thought “out of the box” to just flip some boards on their sides! What a great way to make a multi level rack! Unbelievably simple! All this time... LOL Thank you!
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
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.
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 !!!
This. Is. PERFECTION. Thank you!!
Excellent solution! I have a few 'mini' versions of this spread around my shop, but never though of an all-in-one setup like this. I'll be making some slightly smaller versions of yours for specific 'stations' of my shop. Coming to mind are my guitar repair/build area, my Dremel/Rotary tool station and my scroll saw area. Great design and thanks for sharing!
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
Brilliant Patrick, well done and thank you for sharing 👍🏼😊
Thank you for a very well done video, I am getting tired of watching videos of just music in the background. I love your channel and I know what I will be making this weekend.
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.