You would probably have a blast going through my patternmaker's toolbox, it was made from an old 3 part foundry flask that I used to cast out the body of my steam engine, but flipped everything upside down so the wedges stick up and grooves cut into the bottom of each section for drawer bottoms, so each part sits flat on a table when you take it apart, and it all clamps together using the original clamps used on the flask. All of my chisels, carving knives, various tools I use are all hand forged/laminated and forge welded together and heat treated so it holds an edge far better than most modern chisels you can busy.
But yea, Ive been trying to improve my patternmaking for a few years now, and decided to go down the rabbit hole deep and try to learn as much about it all as much as I could, so I made up my own crank neck chisels from some leaf spring, which I use the crap out of those things, made up the bronze planes, and at that point, I decided I would just come up with a toolbox to start putting the tools in, lol. Now Im up to pretty much 3 toolboxes and it ranges from the one has hand forged tools on top layer, planes in middle, and bottom has measuring/layout tools.
Here's my main toolbox, it was made from an old used flask that I had used ages ago but was just left to hold some patterns, so used it for this. The finish on it was the pine tar, BLO, and turpentine mix that was commonly used on wooden ships. It was added to it in heavy amounts, then used a large torch to heat it all up and it would suck the mix into the wood, then kept flooding the wood and repeating it till the mix stopped soaking in, then left it in the sun for a few days to cure it, then had 3 coats of shellac over top of it to make sure it'll never have any issues, lol. Both inside and outside were coated in the mix.
The 3rd toolbox is technically in pieces all over the place right now because Im still in the process of building it, but it has the old 3/4" aluminum foundry letters and numbers with the spikes on the back, 1/2" plastic letters, various tacks, nails, etc that I usually use, hand forged nails that I hammered out a while back that can be used for projects, and was going to add a big drawer to put my scraper plane and plow plane into, since those are probably the last ones Ill be making with all of the alternative bottoms for the plow plane. Ill add a place to put my spade bits and various other bits in there probably since my other two tool boxes are full to the point that the planes and such actually lock together so they cant move around in transit, lol.
