FlyingXS Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Other than sticking them around the side of your anvil stump how do you guys store your Hardie shanked bottom tools? i'm starting to amass a few and getting sick of finding them lying around the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Stephens Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 My main forge area is set up in a circle. Forge, 12 o'clock, Power hammer, 3 o'clock, 4'x 6" work table, 6 o'clock, main anvil, 9' o'clock. Work table with vise, at 10:30. The 4x6 work table base is an old metal office desk with an enlarged steel top. I keep all hammer dies, and hardy tools in the desk drawers, it's also good storage for any high use tool. The gas forge sets on an old roll around tool box, those drawers are also full of, tools, and bend jigs. Large jigs hang on the walls. I try to keep my floor space, trip hazard free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Awhile back i set up a temporary (ya right) 3x6 foot folding table in my shop to display some of my stuff for people for a weekend and all of a sudden i have all kinds of tools etc. piled on it. I have no idea how that happend. One theory is blacksmith gremlins putting stuff there when im not around. Im sticking to that idea cuz theres no way I'm that messy :-) Picked up a small roller tool box with drawers yesterday and am adding more shelves in a cabinet next to the forge to store stuff. Should clean up nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 If it's an issue cut a couple 2" x 4"s a foot or two long, nail them together flat to flat with a spacer a smidge wider than your bottom tool shanks. Stand it on edge and it'll keep your bottom tools organized, visible and easily accessible. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthibeau Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I drilled holes in 2x4 and 2x6 of the size necessary and have all my punches, hardy tools, etc in them holes. the 2x's are laying at the end of the main work table (which I gotta clear off yet again !!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I find pieces of stout welded wire grid at the scrapyard and then build a frame to support them and then just drop the hardy tooling in the holes. I also once found a piece of channel where they were dialing in their ironworker and the length of it was punched every couple of inches with a 1" sq hole; I have that mounted on the wall of the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRS Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Table build from grating like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorō Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 I just put them in a bucket with my bolts and nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 20 minutes ago, Peter Bui said: I just put them in a bucket with my bolts and nuts. Good Morning, With your---------loose screws????? Welcome to the Club!! Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorō Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 2 hours ago, swedefiddle said: Good Morning, With your---------loose screws????? Welcome to the Club!! Neil Lol thanks mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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