This spring I used salvaged 1" rough sawn oak (found in alley in The Lou-had been used as fencing) to make a bunch of blue bird nesting boxes and tool totes. I used various salvaged spindles from balusters and chairs for the handles on the tool boxes and copper salvaged from old guttering on the nesting boxes as well as for the pencil holders on the side of the tool boxes. The basic tool box design was based on an old one I picked up years ago at a farm auction. The original didn't have the holes in the ends-was I thinking too much about bird houses? I came up with the pencil pocket just as a way to add some copper to the old oak-same reason I added fake repairs/patches to the nesting boxes.