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Gerstner International Dark Oak 5-Drawer Chest
A new take on a beloved Gerstner Classic with a stylish dark oak finish
WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT THIS ITEM
- Oak construction.
- 5 spacious drawers.
- Green velvet-lined top compartment.
- Organizes and stores various items.
- Portable with carrying handles.
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Gerstner International Dark Oak 5-Drawer Chest
Sale price$379.00
Regular price$419.00
I first saw a Gerstner tool chest about 30 years ago. I’ve wanted one ever since, but could never swing it. Now that I could afford it I finally bought one. And I love it!
Gary J. — Verified Buyer
Meet the Maker
One Family, One Design, Since 1906
Harry Gerstner was twenty-two, fresh from a four-year woodworking apprenticeship, when he built a tool chest as a side project. It caught on. With a hundred-dollar bonus he started a company — and named it “H. Gerstner & Sons” because it sounded established, though he would go on to raise three daughters and never have a son.
More than a century later the company is still family-owned and still building chests from Harry’s original drawings. Of the twenty-some workshops making wooden tool chests in his day, Gerstner is the only one left. This dark oak chest belongs to the Gerstner International line — built to Harry’s designs in Gerstner’s own overseas factory, in special runs for Garrett Wade, so the Gerstner name comes within reach.
Established
1906
Home
Dayton, Ohio
Ownership
Family, 4th Gen.
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My brother and I were paid a penny apiece to stuff envelopes when we were little kids.
Kim Campbell Brown — Harry Gerstner’s Great-Granddaughter
The Clever Part
One Wooden Bar Locks Everything
Most chests this size lock drawer by drawer, or not at all. This one does it with a single, satisfying motion: close and lock the top, and a simple wooden bar drops into place, holding all five drawers shut at once. A nickel latch secures the lid above it.
When you don’t need it, the bar lifts out and stores elsewhere — no hardware to fuss with, nothing to break. It is the kind of quiet, mechanical cleverness that has kept the Gerstner design unchanged for a century: form that followed function so well it never needed to.
Beyond the Workshop
A Tool Chest, a Jewelry Chest, an Heirloom
Five felt-cushioned drawers — two large at 2¼″ deep, three small at 1″ — sort a working machinist’s tools as easily as they cradle a watchmaker’s loupes or a musician’s tiny instrument keys. Lift the top and you find a green velvet-lined compartment with a diamond-shaped mirror, the traditional Gerstner touch that turns a tool box into something you set on a dresser.
Owners tell us the same thing again and again: it makes a remarkable gift, and it tends to get adopted by whoever in the house has small, precious things to keep. At 25 lbs with two carrying handles and rounded corner guards, it moves from bench to desk to bedside without complaint — and outlasts everything you put inside it.
Specifications
The Details
| Drawers | 5 total — 2 large, 3 small |
| Drawer Size | 19″ L × 8″ W (large 2¼″ H, small 1″ H) |
| Overall Size | 20″ W × 10″ D × 14½″ H |
| Weight | 25 lbs |
| Top Compartment | Green velvet-lined, diamond-shaped mirror |
| Locking | Wooden bar locks all drawers; nickel latch |
| Material & Finish | Stained dark oak |
| Hardware | Nickel latch, two carrying handles, corner guards |
| Line | Gerstner International — built to Harry Gerstner’s designs |
| Price | (reg. ) |
| Shipping | Ground only — contiguous 48 states |
Common Questions
Frequently Asked
Closing and locking the top activates a clever feature that keeps all the drawers securely locked by means of a simple wooden bar. When the bar is not needed, it can be stored elsewhere. A nickel latch secures the top.
All five drawers measure 19″ long by 8″ wide. The two larger drawers are 2¼″ high; the three smaller drawers are 1″ high. Overall the chest measures 20″ W × 10″ D × 14½″ H and weighs 25 lbs.
The top opens to reveal a green velvet-lined compartment with a diamond-shaped mirror — a traditional Gerstner touch that makes the chest as suited to watches, jewelry, and keepsakes as it is to precision hand tools.
This is the Gerstner International line — built to Harry Gerstner’s original designs in Gerstner’s own overseas factory, in special runs for Garrett Wade. You get the recognizable Gerstner design, stained oak, and felt-lined drawers at a far more accessible price than the American-made solid-hardwood chests built in Dayton, Ohio.
The chest is fully assembled and ready to use. It ships by ground only within the contiguous 48 U.S. states. Two carrying handles and rounded corner guards make it easy to move once it arrives.
The Chest You Pass Down, Not Throw Out
Five felt-lined drawers, a velvet-lined top with mirror, and a wooden lock bar that secures it all.
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Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 4 reviews.
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Loving it!
"I first saw a Gerstner tool chest about 30 years ago. I've wanted on ever since, but could never swing it. Now that I could afford it I finally bought one. And I love it!"
Tool chest
"This made a great gift for my husband; now he has a place for all those tiny musical instrument tools"
fabulous gifts
"arrived nicely. had question because of missing hinge corner…which was found in drawer…Problem solved."
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