Make a chisel rack

Start from a blank workpiece

Design your own chisel rack

The animation below shows drawing a wooden tabletop chisel rack from scratch in Easel. A slotted rail rests on two side supports above a broad base, with a backboard behind the blades; separate wood screws connect the pieces. Assume four chisels with 14 mm necks, shoulders at least 22 mm wide, handles no wider than 32 mm and blades extending at most 150 mm below the rail. These are untested design references. In 12 mm wood, draw a 220 × 174 mm back, 244 × 150 mm base, 244 × 55 mm rail and two 55 × 168 mm sides. Four 16 × 40 mm slots open through the rail’s front edge on 45 mm centers: neck clearance is 2 mm, shoulder bearing is 3 mm each side, and handle-to-handle room is 13 mm. Place the sides outside the back: 12 + 220 + 12 = 244 mm. Set their rear edges 15 mm from the base’s rear edge; the rail covers their full depth. Rest the chisel neck centers 45 mm from the base rear, keeping the reference 32 mm handles 1.9 mm in front of the centered back. The back seats 6 mm into the base: 174 − 6 = 168 mm above the base top, flush with both side tops. The rail rests on the sides and back at 168–180 mm, so it clears the back instead of crossing it. Its top is 180 mm above the base top, leaving 180 − 150 = 30 mm beneath the reference blade tips; neighboring handles have 45 − 32 = 13 mm between them. Draw a 12.2 mm-wide, 6 mm-deep back groove 15 mm from the base rear, extending 2 mm beyond each end of the back. Its open ends let the square back seat without trapped rounded corners. Base screw-guide centers are 6 and 238 mm across the base, at depths 40 and 60 mm from its rear edge; these enter the side bottom edges. Draw side-face guides 6 mm from each side’s rear edge, 40 and 140 mm above its bottom, to enter the back edges. The rail’s guides lie 6 mm from its ends, 7.5 and 41.5 mm from its rear edge, above the side top edges. Add two more rail guides 30 and 214 mm from its left end and 6.1 mm from its rear edge; these enter the middle of the back’s 12 mm-thick top edge. Remove profile tabs, seat the back, clamp the sides and rail in those positions, and drill matching edge pilots through the guides. Use separate wood screws sized for these joints; enlarge face clearance holes as needed, countersink heads and keep screw tips inside the receiving wood. Check blade clearance, handle removal and stability on a mock-up before loading tools; the recording shows design geometry, not a physical assembly test.