Six drawer chest
"It's solid a well put together. Will store my knife collection perfectly."







This handy set includes our popular Gerstner Six-Drawer Chest and a Yankee Push Drill. The cabinet is made by a venerable Ohio company and features oak veneer, felt lined drawers, leather carry handle and chromed-steel hardware. The s... See More
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A working chest and the drill to fill its first drawer — the foundation of a kit you build on for the next thirty years.
Meet the Maker
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. The dark oak chest in this set belongs to the Gerstner International line — built to those original designs in Gerstner’s own overseas factory, finished in oak veneer with the felt-lined, locking drawers that made the name.
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 Chest
Twelve inches wide, eight deep, fourteen tall — small enough for a desk or a benchtop, deep enough to keep a working collection secure and organized. Six drawers, all felt-lined: four shallow at 1¼″ tall for bits, gauges, and small parts, and two deeper at 2¼″ for the things that need more room. The lockable top lifts to reveal an extra compartment, and the whole chest moves by its leather carry handle.
Oak veneer over chromed-steel hardware, with two keys included. It is the Gerstner International line — Harry’s designs, built in Gerstner’s own factory and offered through Garrett Wade at a price that brings the Gerstner name within reach. The reviewer who bought one to hold a knife collection put it plainly: solid, and well put together.
The Set
Four drawers at 1¼″ tall and two at 2¼″ tall, each lined with felt to cushion precision tools, knives, watches, or collectibles — the traditional Gerstner touch.
The top opens to an extra storage compartment and locks closed over the drawers. Two keys, chromed-steel hardware, and a leather carry handle come standard.
Push the handle and the bit turns clockwise; release and it springs back, turning counter-clockwise. One hand, no battery, a hole up to 1½″ deep — as handy now as it was in the 1900s.
The push drill includes eight assorted drill bits that store right in the top of the handle — nothing loose to lose, and the whole kit lives in a single chest drawer.
Specifications
| Chest Size (Overall) | 12″ W × 8″ D × 14″ tall |
| Drawers | Six, felt-lined — four at 1¼″ tall, two at 2¼″ tall |
| Top | Lockable, opens to extra storage compartment |
| Chest Material | Oak veneer |
| Hardware | Chromed steel · leather carry handle |
| Keys | Two included |
| Line | Gerstner International (built to Harry Gerstner’s designs) |
| Push Drill | Spring-action Yankee style · eight bits stored in handle |
| Drill Capacity | Bores a hole up to 1½″ deep |
| Shipping Weight | 15.6 lb |
| Origin | Imported (chest & drill) |
| Price | (reg. ) |
Common Questions
A felt-lined, locking Gerstner International oak chest paired with the spring-action Yankee Push Drill and eight bits.
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Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 reviews.
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"It's solid a well put together. Will store my knife collection perfectly."