Thanks for writing to us at the Community Tool Box with your interesting question (and please excuse our delay in getting back to you). Briefly, we think that a Handmade Tool Box along the lines you describe is a potentially powerful idea, and we would certainly encourage you to pursue it, for all the reasons you state.
As you know, our own Tool Box deals with community development issues, as contrasted with handmade skills such as woodworking. For that reason, we do not see a direct connection between the work you envision and our own, and think it would be better if you kept your own initiative as a separate and free-standing one. But as you continue, please do feel free to borrow or adapt our own format and structure, since that part is certainly not copyrighted.
And as you indicate, we think you will make more progress by working with a group, for what you have in mind seems to be a potentially are large-scale and long-term project that would involve a number of people. We hope you stay with it!
We hope these thoughts may be helpful to you, and wish you every success as your work progresses.
