I found this magnificent, dirty, rusty old mechanic’s rolling tool box at the dump, but it was locked with no key. Though it weighed way more than I can lift safely, I had a hunch that it would be useful, so I managed to haul it into the back of my car and brought it to the shop. I had taken a lock-picking class some time before at a local hackerspace, so I thought maybe I could try to put my lesson to work.  I made a little torsion lever and rake out of some piano wire in the shop, tried to put on a Jason Bourne mind-set, and got to work.  I thought I might be at it a while, but wiggling the rake around randomly got it to click open in about ten seconds. I was amazed. You can’t imagine the rush of liberation and power that follows cracking your first real lock. Using the number on the back, I got a new key for a couple of bucks.

This tool box has six ball-bearing equipped drawers of various depths.  Once I got it all cleaned up, it made a MAGNIFICENT Ridgewing guitar case, one drawer for each major component - bridge, headstock, neck, frames, inserts, and a big bottom drawer where I collect disasters for future auction. Here is the top drawer showing a variety of flavors of bridge parts. You make a guitar-of-the-day by grabbing parts from each drawer and clicking them together.