Tool Box in a Milk Crate and Bonus

As I wrote in the review of the Systematic Tools Knipex Multitool Sheath 2.0, Todd Parker’s obsessive kit overviews on his Youtube page inspired me to not just make a kit of my one, but make the toolbox too. This, in turn, helped prompt me to finally, after years, fix my small parts storage. This article is an overview of that system as the toolbox and the small parts storage work together. I love tools. I love my basement workshop where I slowly tinker on projects until they are finished. I love that I can leave the basement messy and not bother anyone. I love that I can make the space look exactly like what I want. It doesn’t have to be pretty or color coordinated. It just has to be useful. It is a purely utilitarian space. And it is wonderful. My heart rate drops every time I walk down the stairs to work on a project. Even if the project isn’t going so well.Part of the joy of owning a workshop is making it your own. And I have done that. I built a main bench, a miter station, a…