2025 - A Redesigned Plane Till

As a handtool woodworker, I have accumulated many hand planes and various hand tools. In order to keep my workshop reasonably efficient, I have built 2 plane tills. The first hold my bench planes and block planes and is in good shape.

In the picture above, far left are 2 shooting planes (I mostly use the bottom one which is from Veritas. Next are the bevel up planes - bottom is a Jack and top is a smoothing plane. Next are the bevel down planes - again bottom is a #5 Jack and top is a #4 Smoother. On the right are my Joiner planes - left a bevel up Joiner and right a bevel down #7 Joiner. On the Bottom a small assortment of black and apron planes.

My 2nd plane till was for my specialty planes and I had several planes that didn't fit so it was time to re work the interior. Here is the results:

On the top left are my shoulder planes. Right top is a bull nose plane. Between those 2 are a left and right side rabbet planes. Below that on the left is a skew rabbet plane, followed by a tongue and groove plane, then a small right handed plow plane and finally a large cabinet scraper plane. Below those planes are my collection of router planes (yes, I clearly have too many but I find them useful. The top shelf has a Veritas Larger Router Plane followed by Melbourne Tools Router Plane. The bottom shelf has a Walke-Moore Router Plane (my favorite) followed by a Veritas Medium and Small Router Planes. On the bottom are tools and blades for the various specialty planes.

In re-working the plane till, I found I needed to make room for more and used the inside of the doors for the plane tills.

In the door are various marking knives, chip carving knives, draw knives, spoke shaves, a small Preston Router Plane, a side rabbet plane, and a moulding scraper tool.

I figured I should look at the other door so work happened there too.

In this door, I keep a scrub plane, a plane rasp, and various rasps and fives.

Here is the final piccture of the entire setup.