We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations.
Miniaturist David Brookshaw sent me a photo of a cabinetmaker’s tool chest in 1/12 scale that begs for your “zoom tool.”
We’ve been exploring all the tiny tools in the chest this afternoon when we should be editing. Check out the sliding T-bevel. The glue pot. The early strap hammers.
Download the photo yourself and take a look.
dollshouse_chest.JPG (635.15 KB)
– Christopher Schwarz
Product Recommendations
Here are some supplies and tools we find essential in our everyday work around the shop. We may receive a commission from sales referred by our links; however, we have carefully selected these products for their usefulness and quality.
Recent Posts
Showing 3 comments
Why do humans make miniatures? The french anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss hypothesized that it was a way of encapsulating and synthesizing our life, and a way of somehow "owning" complexity. Mr. Brookshaw’s masterpiece certainly does that, as does the ever-popular Studley Tool Chest poster which hangs in front of me as I type this. When we don’t have time to go to the workshop, we can "be in it" by having the miniature in hand.
This is my first Internet posting (anywhere), but I enjoy Chris’s blog so much I thought I would contribute.
what happens when this meets the eye-clops? there goes your deadline
Do you think he used the mini saws to make the mini dovetails in the mini tool chest?
(crossing my fingers)
I don’t know how often woodworkers enjoy their work being called cute or adorable… but it is what it is