{"id":8778,"date":"2026-07-01T04:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:35:48","slug":"in-close-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/in-close-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"In close reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2299-scaled-e1782889186671-517x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have accumulated attachments for several handy <strong>items on the wall<\/strong> just behind the right side of my workbench. This allows for quick grabs and returns of very frequently used helpers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here they are<\/strong>, left to right, top to bottom:<\/p>\n<p>1. The shop-made <strong>tool oiler<\/strong>. I wrote about making this in a 3\/29\/2009 post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/shopmade-tool-oiler\/\">https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/shopmade-tool-oiler\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Camellia oil gets used on lots of tools every day. It sits in a little box rack screwed to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>2. A light weight <strong>wooden mallet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3. A <strong>heavier mallet<\/strong> hammer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. A group of usually sharpened <strong>pencils<\/strong>: good old #2, and red and white. These stand in a leather chisel guard glued to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>5. Two pieces of wood, each with three <strong>grooves<\/strong>. The neck of my Japanese chisels sits in a groove so the tool will not role.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6. The pair of <strong>bench dogs<\/strong> that I wrote about in a 8\/10\/25 post.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/make-these-bench-dogs\/\">https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/make-these-bench-dogs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. The handy little <strong>brush<\/strong> with bristles cut short. This gets countless uses, such as clearing the cutting edge opening of a hand plane.<\/p>\n<p>8. The dead-on accurate 12\u2019 <strong>tape measure<\/strong>. This also sits in a little box rack like the oiler.<\/p>\n<p>9. A constantly used, durable Lie-Nielsen <strong>dusting brush<\/strong>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>10. <strong>Wood shrinkage\/expansion monitor<\/strong>. I wrote about this in a 5\/30\/2020 post. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/watch-the-wood-move\/\">https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/watch-the-wood-move\/<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This modest set up helps efficiency in the shop, and improves the comfort of time in the shop.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And that is still <strong>good time<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have accumulated attachments for several handy items on the wall just behind the right side of my workbench. This allows for quick grabs and returns of very frequently used helpers. Here they are, left to right, top to bottom: 1. The shop-made tool oiler. I wrote about making this in a 3\/29\/2009 post: https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/shopmade-tool-oiler\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}