Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process

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Another option that looks plausible is to have four drawers instead of five on the left. The combined inside height of the two top drawers (where the marking gauges and saws are currently allocated) is 74 mm, but add the 9 mm from losing a drawer bottom (that's what I'd allocated assuming a grooved base) and the 10 mm from the drawer divider and we're up to 93 mm. The saws are 90 mm high stood on edge. There might be a little more to gain by tweaking the sizes of the other drawers and/or setting the bottoms into rebates instead of grooves as discussed on the other thread.

(the block of wood at the back isn't intended to be in the drawer; it's just to stop the saws from falling over)

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