How do you organize your pliers in your toolbox?

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I have a whole drawer of pliers in one drawer and it's hard to find what I need and you can't tell what's missing. I guess I can take some out and put them in a smaller skinny drawer. Looks like I have a few pairs of retaining ring pliers. Maybe put needle nose and retaining ring pliers together or something
 
I already have a Kennedy roller cabinet with riser and top box, and another side cabinet on wheels. If I were to organize all my pliers/cutters, screwdrivers, wrenches, etc., at neatly as I'd like, I'd have to buy another full roller cabinet and top box. The only thing super organized are my sockets in socket organizer trays so I can find the size I want quickly and see if any are missing.
 
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Yep I keep a couple core pliers and dykes in my service cart. You rarely need access to ALL of them everyday. I keep snap ring pliers completely separate, and I opted to have a separate "Cutting and Dykes" drawer in my main box which also has things like Klein cable cutters, extra scissors (Kershaw et al), Craftsman HandiCut, Milwaukee PEX cutter (awesome for heater hose) and even small "bolt cutters" for nipping small chain like what you'd use to hang plants, bird feeders or stained glass.
 
Similar to DuckRyder, I don’t, I do put them all in the same drawer though. However, I only have 4 or 5 types.
 
Here we go. Utilized two of the smaller drawers. I call this one the cutter drawer.

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I spray metal stuff down with wd40 to keep from rusting. Works good, they don't rust in the tool box, but moreso while I'm using them as it always seems to start drizzling outside whenever I'm in the middle of a project
 
Good you got them sorted but I was expecting a lot more pliers than what could fit in two small drawers, thought you must have had 25 plus sets.
There are actually three drawers, that just made more room in the original bigger drawer is all. I explained it wrong. I just don't like them piled on top of each other, where you can't tell what us what and then you can't close the drawer after yanking one out. These drawers don't have much height to them unfortunately. Doesn't do much good to be in the middle of a project and you're spending 5 minutes digging in the toolbox
 
i throw them haphazardly in a drawer , not even necessarily the correct drawer or on top....

Long a go i layed them out and sort of nested them with one another... like with like - needle nose/dykes/channellocks/snapring/vice grip/ and so on and so forth...
I will organize things once in a blue moon, but generally this is how you’ll find my garage. Two points: if the tool is in the drawer it is assigned, or in my case in my “go bag” of frequently used tools, that’s pretty good for organization. Also, to most of the respondents to this post, who are pleased to show their organization and to drop tool brands, man up.
 
I will organize things once in a blue moon, but generally this is how you’ll find my garage. Two points: if the tool is in the drawer it is assigned, or in my case in my “go bag” of frequently used tools, that’s pretty good for organization. Also, to most of the respondents to this post, who are pleased to show their organization and to drop tool brands, man up.
Well, it won't be long, before those pliers are just thrown into the drawer and not neatly layed out. Organizing a tool box is like washing a car. Only looks good for a few days until it rains.
 
I use the Pliersrack PLR15 on my pegboard, but it can also be used in a drawer. It only holds about half my pliers so input the seldom-used specialty pliers in a drawer. I have been very happy with it.

This is the Amazon pic.
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Red Knipex or Icon/Doyle. Blue Channellock. :). That’s my drawer, but almost all my pliers are Knipex. That Ernst Plier Pro drawer is awesome.
 
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