$5 at Menard's

[Cardinal Knife]

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Buy a bunch of them. They can be stacked and piled on each other. Using trays and bins is the only way to keep track of small tools, supplies, parts and, projects in progress. You can fold up the drawings/notes/plans and set them in the bottom of a knife's slot, too.

When a commercial company went out of business, I bought a couple hundred blue parts bins. They were between 4" and 10" wide and all are 16" deep. They stack on each other. I keep pretty much everything in them now. All the parts to a project or group of knives go into one bin. No more looking around the shop for where the handle scales for a knife are.

 

[S.Alexander]

Organising... I'll get to it tomorrow

 

[Brian.Evans]

Awesome! What are they actually? I'm pretty sure the guys at Menard's wouldn't know what a black knife tray is.

 

[Cardinal Knife]

It's by the tools marketed as a tool box organizer

 

[Hale Storm]

They look like cash drawer bins.

 

[james terrio]

Excellent tip :thumbup:

I'd be in big trouble without my little drawers for various bolts and screws and rivets and drills and snaps and pin/tubing cut-offs and sanding drums and cut-off discs and other miscellaneous small stuff... there's one on the main bench, one by the handle bench drill press, one in the leather room, etc.

(not mine, just a web image but you get the idea...)

 

[trentu]

Cool! My wife works at one here. I'm going to have her snag me some up.

 

[Cardinal Knife]

Thanks James, but I don't know if that is better than all of my cream cheese and coffee containers

 

[trentu]

Picked some up lastnight. I'm going to sort drill bits in one also. Things always go better for me in the shop when I'm organized.