How to Build a Tool Chest – The Definitive Guide

Do you work with a lot of tools often and face trouble to manage the tools or often don’t find them at the right place? A suitable tool chest can solve your problem. You can either buy or build one for your work.

Ready-made tool chests may raise costs for you. But you can save money and you may have a great experience by building a tool chest by own.

You can also design it in your own way according to your wants. So, why you will not try this?

I think this writing will help you a lot with this. Hope you may find a complete guideline about the tool chest and its building process.

So, let me know you what is a Tool Chest & how to build a tool chest?

The tool chests are necessary and useful things for your work. So, you can enjoy more advantages if you know how and where to use it properly.

If you are curious enough, you have to know these :-

For those purposes, you can use the tool chests. Hope those points will be beneficial for you.

There are various types of the tool chest. For a particular reason, you will find wooden, metal and plastic-made tool chest.

The plastic-made chests are cheap but those are not environment-friendly and reliable for heavy works as well as they don’t last long.

So, it is an ideal move to choose wooden or metal tool chest.

Wooden things are always classic. A wooden tool chest is comfortable for use and easy to build. It is also easy to carry-out for your works. Moreover, you will find this types of chests comparatively in cheap.

You can use this tool chest for those tools which are :-

If you are going to build wooden tool chest in your home by your own, you can do it easily. Moreover, the materials of this type of chest are also cheap.

These types of chests are stylish and good-looking. A metal tool chest is comparatively lightweight and more user-friendly.

The main benefit of the metal chest is long-lasting for any kind of works. It also can be designed differently for different types of uses, purposes, and spaces.

You can use this tool chest for those tools which are :-

But building process of the metal one is comparatively complex than the wooden one.

Read the “How to build" part attentively to clear your concept of how to build a metal tool chest or the wooden one.

If you want to build a tool chest, you have to follow some steps. Those steps help you to complete your building work properly.

I suggest you read these points and try to follow these in order.

Selecting a suitable design is the first and foremost duty if you want to build something good for you.

It will be a good move if you draw the design in a drawing paper before starting your tool chest building work.

When you are going to select or create one, always keep in mind about :-

Example: for the DIY rolling tool chest, the DIY metal tool chest and other types you have to choose different types of design.

Always give first priority to your suitableness. 11 drawer rolling chest, 6 drawer combo toolbox are some selective design for example.​​​​

Materials of the chest depending on your selective type. For wooden tool chest, you need different materials in compare with metal tool chest.

A. For wooden tool chest, what do you need?

It is the main material of the wooden tool chest. The main body.

It cut the plank to the right size. It also helps to maintain the required shape of the chest.

There are a lot of types of the hammer for different types of work. You normally need two types of the hammer for building a wooden tool chest. One for small nails to stuck in the wood and other for the big nails.

Those things stuck in the woods and give wanted shape.

It is used to join two or more wood pieces along. It also helps to reduce licks.

It helps to increase the chest life-time. It prevents the woodlouse attack on the wood.

Choose the color that suits your mind best. You have a lot of options in the market. However, you can change the chest’s color if you want.

It is a finishing equipment for the wooden chest. It is used to polish the body of the chest to get the gentle shape.

Those are the main part of the chest structure. You can use different types of metal sheets if you want.

You have to cut and give a suitable shape of the chest. By using metal cutter you can do those easily.

For polishing, you need this. It helps to increase the beauty of the metal tool chest.

Those equipment are used to join or stuck the metal sheets together. Which is most important for maintaining a regular size and shape.

You can design your metal tool chest by using various types of colors. It will make your chest more attractive.

Planning can ensure your work success. So, when you are going to build a tool chest, you may make a plan of work.

Plan of work means planning your whole working process. Decide how you will start and continue your work.

By planning you can save your time, money and effort. So, it is ideal to give emphasis to this step.

This is the main part of the building process. For different types of the tool chest, you have to follow different working procedures.

After finish this step, you will find the main body of your chest.

If you want to use the drawer in your tool chest, then give some space in the main body for the drawer.

Construct drawer in the right size of the hole of the tool chest. Cut the materials into the right shape and build using glue or nails. Rejoin the drawer in the tool chest after finishing of the construction.

After joining the main body of the chest, you have to install other small parts. Those are additional design components, lock system (if you want), belt, chain etc.

After constructing the main body and joining other parts with it, the last work is finishing the chest. For this, you need burnish-paper, woodlouse resistant oil, colors and saw.

Cut the extra sides of the chest, polish the whole body with burnish-paper, color the body according to your choice and dry up.

At last, test the tool chest in a practical way. If you feel comfortable, then you can feel that your work is done.

Check out this video for more info.

Now, you can easily understand that if you know how you can use a tool chest properly, it will be very beneficial for you.

Building a tool chest is not a difficult task. So, if you build your own tool chest, you can save a lot.

In this writing, I try to give you a complete guideline about a tool chest and how you can build one. Hope this will help you in your practical life.

Start creating! All the best.