Workshop Evolution - Gift from a Long Lost Uncle

Like many people here, my shop has undergone many changes. The latest
 change was due to a gift from my cousin:

 Her father - my uncle - was a woodworker and she gave me a tool
 cabinet he built and used. It's nothing hugely special in terms of
 materials and workmanship. But he was (he passed away about a dozen
 years ago) my favorite relative so it has strong sentimental value.

 It also has practical value.

 The first photograph show the main workbench portion of my shop as it
 has been for several years. The workbench itself is a thick slab of
 beech. On the left end of that is an ancient leg vise someone was
 throwing away, and a planing stop I built into the bench, raised and
 lowered with a spiral cam made from oak. To the left of the leg vise
 is an auxiliary bench made from plywood.

 You'll notice the tools are all mounted on boards. Those boards hang
 form the wall via French Cleats. I got the idea from a Fine
 Woodworking article. I thought this was a pretty nifty idea as it
 confers great flexibility in two ways:

 1) You can move a board of tools anywhere else in the shop,
 wherever you may need them, and

 2) You can reconfigure the tools on a board any way you like.

 In the years I've had this setup, never have I moved a tool board from
 one part of the shop to another - my shop is tiny. Nor did I take the time to
 reconfigure a board though they need it.

 As you can see, the tools on the boards are roughly organized as to
 function. The leftmost board is the "marking out" board. Then the
 screwdriver board (though I  never moved the brace from the marking
 board to the screwdriver board), then the saw board, and lastly the
 planes. This organization didn't even reflect my work style, for
 while I started out with the marking tools, I went to saw, plane and
 chisel long before it was time to screw the project together. And
 that wasn't the worst thing:

 Having all my tools exposed like that mean they became master dust
 collectors. So any time I felt the need to clean the shop, each tool
 had to be pulled from it's rack, the racks an boards vacuumed, then
 the tools replaced. Huge waste of time.

 Inertia is a powerful thing, but the inertia was exploded by the
 arrival of my Uncle's tool cabinet. As I say it's nothing special;
 pine box with a couple of doors; pegboard front and back.

 I hate pegboard.

 Before you pegboard aficionados grab your cudgels and pitchforks,
 let me say that it's because of my own ineptitude: Every time I try to take
 a tool off a pegboard hook that hook wants to come with it and it's a
 comical mess. But as you see there are some tool racks on the doors
 and I noted some of the hooks have a secondary peg that helps to keep
 the hook attached to the pegboard.

 First thing I did was give the pine a coat of shellac, and two coats
 of varnish. Then I painted the inside/back of the cabinet a light off
 white. My workshop is in a dark dank hole of a cellar and I like all
 the light reflection I can get. While painting and varnishing, I
 wondered what I was going to use those 4 drawers for. They look
 really handy - but I couldn't' figure out what I'd put in them.

 I pulled out the draw knife to hack away at new French cleats,
 and mounted the box to the wall. I decided to organize my tools based
 upon the rough order of need. This order amounts to:

   marking
   sawing
   planing
   chiseling
   assembly (screws and nails)

 So marking tools went to the lower regions of the main box - more
 frequently used marking tools towards the bottom/center - less
 frequently used towards the top. My Stanley No. 48 made some edge
 dados rather quickly for mounting blocks.

 Once that was done, I -re-mounted the doors and removed the tool
 racks.

 Organization and planning is not complete, however. In the last photo
 you see the remaining tools I need to store in that box. Lots of
 chisels on the left; screwdrivers and gimlets, and augur
 bits. Something will have to take up that space in the center of the
 main box - maybe the bit brace and augur bits.

 And I still don't know what I'm going to store in those drawers.