Building a simple wooden tool chest is not too difficult, however if you're interested in hiring someone to make one for your grandfather, visit Craigslist. Craigslist is a great website where you can list tasks for people to do or offers.
You can find patterns on how to build a wooden trunk or toy chest at libraries in books. Or you can go to wood working shops and usually find magazines and books and other things that you can find patterns in.
Wooden tool chests range between $50-$500 depending on the quality of the chest. Gumtree, Snapon and USProtoolboxes.com are all websites where you can obtain a wooden tool chest. Alternatively, you may be able to find a wooden tool chest on auction sites such as eBay.
There are free woodworking patterns or plans on home improvement webpages but the best place to find a guide would be in a local home improvement store. Not only would they have the patterns but could help decide which type of wood would be best for building a wooden keepsake chest.
You could purchase a wooden treasure chest from bidding sites such as eBay or Gumtree. You could also visit a local auction house and chance your luck there, although this can be expensive.
You can buy a wooden ice chest from eBay, Amazon or Custom-Rustic-Woodworks. Big Easy Woodworks also has wooden ice chests. It shouldn't be a problem to find them online but you should compare prices of the designs you like to get the best offer.
You can find instructions on how to build a wooden CD rack from YouTube, eHow, Lee's Wood Projects, wikiHow, Instructables, Alibaba, and Canadian Home Workshop.
Bare wooden chest boxes can be bought from places like Michaels and Dollarama, as well as other craft stores. These types of chests allow you to paint and decorate them yourselves, which is great for customized birthdays. You can find finished wooden chests at Walmart, Amazon and eBay.
You can purchase wooden toy chests at any local toy store, they usually have some on stock or you can buy it online at Amazon, who might have them with discounts.
When I was looking for a wooden toy chest I went to our local unfinished wood furniture store and found one. They are made high quality and they can stain and/or paint them for you or you could do that yourself if you are handy like that.
This would be extremely difficult. I'd highly recommend hiring someone, be it a contractor, carpenter, or builder. If you're really ambitious, you could ask an associate at Home Depot or Lowe's.
Someone can find out how to build a compost pile on the website Ehow. Also one can try the websites Ask, Yahoo Answers, and wiki.answers to see how to build a compost pile.
One could purchase wooden games at Ingido and Chapters store locations and on their online stores. Someone could also find wooden games at Amazon and eBay.