In April of 2020, I started building a till (or cabinet) to hold all my braces, bits and other tools for boring holes. I kept track of the progress as I built it, which went until May of 2022. Here's the notes from the journey (all dated, so you can see how long various things took me).

1. Planning and Cutting
2. A Little Detour
3. Dovetails and Sliding Dovetails
4. Horizontal Bits
5. Reinforcement, Part 1
6. Cleanup and Test Fitting
7. Reinforcement, Part 2
8. Recutting the Bottom and More Test Fitting
9. Gluing it up
10. Back and Cleat—Hanging it up
11. Starting on Drawers
12. Resawing the Drawer Sides
13. Another Day, Another Drawer
14. Drawer Cleanup
15. More Drawers
16. Last Drawer Boxes—Odds & Ends
17. Fitting out Drawers
18. First Drawer Done—Starting on the Second
19. Small Drawer—Batwing and Forstner Bits
20. Small Drawer—Spoon bits, Countersinks, Plug Cutters
21. Last Drawer Insides
22. Cutting Drawer Fronts to Size
23. Starting to Finish the Drawer Fronts
24. Shellacking the Drawer Fronts
25. More Drawer Front Finishing
26. Drawer Pulls on—Mostly
27. Door Frames
28. Gluing up the Doors
29. Finishing the Doors
30. Hanging a Door
31. Second Door
32. Adjusting the Doors—Putting on Latches
33. Hammers on the Door

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Been organizing my shop, and I no longer needed my old chisel till so I knocked out the existing rack within it, added a bar at the bottom and a board at the top, et voilá.

Some day I’ll clean up those square corners and get a coat of oil on the new parts, but for now, my dovetail saws are off the bench.

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