Quote from Jeffrey Morbit on November 3, 2018, 3:30 am

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Hi everyone,

Wow, I can't believe it has been 4 months since I signed up for the school and ordered my carving tools, I still have 3 tools on back-order, but man time flies by.  From the time my tools started to arrive I was struggling with ideas of how to store the tools and still have them readily accessible and what kind of carving table to use, and I was tired of staring at my tools piled up on my computer desk in their plastic sleeves.

At first I wanted to build a nice cabinet with drawers and dividers but I quickly realized that I would not really have room in my bedroom studio for a chest of drawers big enough for all of the tools, and the workshop (garage) is currently full of 16 bags of insulation as I am trying to make the space more comfortable during the brutal Georgia summers, so building a fancy cabinet was not feasible until I clear out the workshop and get the wood working tools in the proper place.

I ended up purchasing an Armor "Clamping Table" and some Veritas "Wonder Dogs" and "Planing Stop" to use as a carving bench, I hope it works well.  After watching Mary's "Beginners" videos I liked the idea of using magnetic tool holders like the ones on the wall behind her, but I do not have access to a wall big enough in the garage or bedroom studio as most of the space is already allocated.  While shopping around on Amazon I came across some steel log brackets for making a holder for fire wood and I got the idea for my carving tool rack.

I used two sets of the log brackets and nine 2 x 4s and six 24" long magnetic tool holders to build my tool rack and a shelf for my carving bench to hold my carving blanks, it took me about six or eight hours to design, cut, sand and assemble the rack and shelf.  I still need to order two more magnetic tool holders and attach them to complete the rack, I originally only planned to have 6 magnetic holders but ended up building it for eight.  I plan on adding some work bench casters, so I can turn the rack around.  Many things came up over the last four months that delayed me getting my space ready, but I was finally able to work on it and finish it this week. I would love to eventually have a backyard combination carving studio and wood shop, but, oh well one can dream, can't he?