This is a very well made paperback with heavy, glossy paper, fine design and layout work, and well-written text. As usual, Taunton has made every effort to turn a how to book into something you would be proud to have on your coffee table. I wasn't kidding when I said a toobox can take 400 hours to make. One glance through the book and you will see many fine photographs of work that is both functional and beautiful. And this book is about assessing your needs, laying out the best way to meet those needs, and then building something that is often the showpiece of a woodworker's skills. Too many of us buy a toolbox and then set about filling it with new widgets that we aren't even sure we will need. In fact one of the things that Toplin makes abundantly clear is that you make a toolbox to hold YOUR tools. It is carefully and clearly written, and a host of sketches makes up for the loss of detailed, paint-by-the-numbers plans. Author Jim Toplin blends history and technique together to give you a real understanding of how the toolbox has developed and changed as woodworkers first came to the colonies, then adapted to the rising use of machinery, and finally then met the space age head on. It is, however, the most exhaustive study of toolbox making I've seen so far. Even though this is the one book that has not one detailed plan in it. A quick trip to the local woodworking store turned up several books on the subject, but one, Taunton's Toolbox Book, stood way out from the rest.
Even if it took 400 hours of work rather than a quit drive to the nearest discount store.
After looking at the prices for good commercial tool chests it occurred to me that building one wouldn't be all that more expensive. Guaranteed not to be in the place they should be when you reach for them. One of the side effects of this compulsion is that you accumulate a lot of odd tools that seem to meander all over the shop. Every time I see a chunk of wood I start resawing it in my mind thinking of neat things I could do with it. I turn into a box-making junkie during the winter.
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