[Woodcarver] Tool Organizing

[R. Stephan Toman]

>To the list:


       I am in process of designing a new work area for the carving benches 
in my shop.  For years I have tended to end up with a fairly huge pile of 
gouges all over my bench by the time I am at the end of a project, which is 
not particularly helpful to the edges and which leaves me sorting through a 
stack of jackstraws to find whatever particular tool I need.  Being a 
procrastinator I have never actually made the time to resolve this problem 
of clutter, but I do have the opportunity now to plan a carving area from 
the floor up.  The question I would like input on is this:  Have any of you 
ever used those magnetic tool bars that cooks use for their cutlery to keep 
your bench-top free of tools?  I have had an idea for a vertical tool rack 
which would utilize the magnetic bars to hold and keep in order the array 
of gouges I might be using at any given time, but it just dawned on me that 
this arrangement would eventually lightly magnetize the shanks of the tools 
as well.  I am curious as to whether anyone has tried this, and whether it 
has resulted in more aggravation than that of the problem it is trying to 
solve.

Thanks muchly,

Stephan Toman


R. Stephan Toman - master woodcarver & furniture-maker

Sonrise Woodcarving Studio

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