The happiest little WEPS Storage box

[Brent Dowell]

So, Thought I’d put together a little organizer/storage unit for my WEPS.

Dang if it didn’t turn out to be the happiest little organizer box I’ve ever made.

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[cbwx34]

Haha… it is happy! 😆

Looks like a great job. (Nice photos too.)

Thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the forum!

[Brent Dowell]

Welcome to the forum!

Oh, I’ve been lurking for a while, well, since I got the WEPS,

But didn’t really feel I had anything to share until now…

This is great place, and a great source of sharpening info. I check it most nearly every day.

[Eamon Mc Gowan]

Well that is the happiest storage box I’ve ever seen! 🙂 Welcome and thanks for your contribution. I’ll bet you have plenty to add. 😉

[Phil Pasteur]

Great job. I mean really nice construction.
Just curious, how much does it weigh all loaded up?

[Mikedoh]

Very nice job on the storage box

[Brent Dowell]

Great job. I mean really nice construction.
Just curious, how much does it weigh all loaded up?

Now that is a very good question. It’s a little heavy, so I just went out and weighed it.

The WEPS mounting board and blade holder weigh 8#4oz on its own.

The rest of it is made up of 1/2″ baltic birch ply, with 1/8 ply bottoms and weighs in at 16#6oz, with all the accessories in it.

Total weight is 24#10oz. That’a actually heavier than I thought it would be.

I suppose I could use a different way to mount it than using the mounting board. That would save quite a bit of weight.

[Ken Buzbee]

Awesome!

Ken

[Mikedoh]

Question
It wouldn’t be too hard to add a top that allowed for the WEPS to stay fully mounted, and carried by a top handle, would it?
Very nice work.

[Brent Dowell]

Question
It wouldn’t be too hard to add a top that allowed for the WEPS to stay fully mounted, and carried by a top handle, would it?
Very nice work.

That would actually be very easy. Just another small box, with a lip to fit around the inside of the top section, and a couple of latches. It would also be easy to drill a hole in the back that would go down through the drawers to fit a pin of some sort to keep the drawers closed while in transit.

Great idea. Thanks Mikedoh!

[Mikedoh]

Hey, it’s a very nice craftsman’s cabinate box. I know that for me, Breaking down the vise would be something I wouldn’t do.
Great amount of storage, great looks. Always a fan of dove tail joints. I’m lazy when it comes to much reassembly. . . .ok, I’m just plain lazy, but particularly so when it comes to much disassembly, reassembly.

Wonderful storage box. Like it very much. A lid that allowed the vise to stay intact would be the ultimate for me.

Thanks for sharing.

[Brent Dowell]

Just simple box joints on the drawers.

Great suggestion you made, and I would tend to agree with you. I’m thinking I might just make the lid for it. If for nothing else, to keep the sawdust off it out in the shop. Not sure I want to take it apart everytime I want to put it away either.

[Mikedoh]

Sorry for my display of ignorance. I’d always considered any sort of fingered joinery as dovetail, even if they were not splayed at the ends.

Appreciate the education I got from looking up the difference between box and dovetail and the strength debates.

[DARRELL ALLEN]

very cool design Brent, and nice job to boot. 🙂

Thanks for sharing that.

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