Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process

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If you cast your mind back to earlier in this build, you might remember that my marking gauge is too big to fit in the drawers. I think the best solution to this is going to be a new body made out of circa 50 mm diameter brass with flats on two sides so that the height is only about 30 mm and hence it'll fit in a drawer.

There's currently some rather large planks of sweet chestnut blocking access to my brass drawer at the moment, so as an interim I decided to use a bit of 30 mm brass that was on the bench.

It's unpleasantly hot in the metalworking end of the garage at the moment but needs must. A bit of turning:

Then a simple bit of milling (for an anti-roll flat) and a tapped hole in completely the wrong place (I blame the heat):

Then turn it through 90° and another tapped hole, this time in the right place:

That'll do for now. It doesn't have much of a registration surface, but it'll only be used for small scale stuff (boxes). I'll make another one out of some bigger brass once I can get to it.

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