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RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - Bill Wilson - 03-27-2025
(03-26-2025, 02:00 PM)jsears Wrote: I’ve used pegboard before, and yeah, the hooks can be annoying when they fall off. If you go that route, zip ties or hot glue can help keep them in place. Lately, I’ve been using a simple plywood wall with screws, nails, and a few custom brackets made from scrap wood. It’s cheap, easy to customize, and holds everything securely.
Same here. Nothing fancy and it's not going to make the pages of Home & Shop magazine, but it gets the job done.
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - paul2004 - 03-28-2025
I have a bunch of scrap plywood, so I'm going to try to do the french cleat wall. (Since it will cost me nothing in materials). But my wall space is going to be near my workbench, so the intent is to have it nice to move the things I am using within arm reach, while stuff I'm not currently using can be moved higher up the wall.
Lots of youtube videos about it. It does take more time to set up than simply putting up pegboard, but IMO, it allows a lot more customization in the future. But if I had to buy all the plywood to do it (as opposed to having tons of long scraps), I'm not sure I would go that way to be honest.
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - FrankAtl - 03-28-2025
I use french cleats. I make different holders depending on what I need to store and can move them around as needed. I need to do some tidying up but they work well for me.
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RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - paul2004 - 03-28-2025
Nice setup FrankAtl, that's what I aspire to do with mine
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - FrankAtl - 03-28-2025
Thanks. It works well for me. I've acquired a CNC router since I originally set these up so my plan is to design some different holders and make things a little neater.
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - Bob Vaughan - 03-29-2025
Just found this photo. An example of 16d finish nails. I put up this scrap piece of 1x12 on the wall when I first set up my shop building in 1996. I needed a 'temporary' place to hang tools. Its pretty much been like this ever since. Hand tools come and go so I just hang them on a convenient nail. It doesn't take much searching since the daily use tools are at least somewhere on this wall space.
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RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - Stwood_ - 04-08-2025
Some pegboard, and I buy the 'good' hooks that lock in.
3" screws, that screw into 1/2" ply.
Self made wall brackets for the heavier tools, such as clamps.
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - DogwoodTales - 04-10-2025
I’m in need of setting up such tool storage in my new shop which is borderline functional right now.
I’m not decided yet on what I do for wall storage, but one thing for certain for me is that it will be a system that allows me to pull the tool out from the wall without having to lift it up first and then out - unless, of course, a tool needs to be captive to keep from falling out.
… no peg board or wasting my time with French cleats
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - Gary G™ - 04-10-2025
(04-10-2025, 08:29 AM)DogwoodTales Wrote: … no …wasting my time with French cleats
Interesting you would say this.
When I think of cleats, I don’t think of each individual tool.
Rather, I think of a tool cabinet or container containing tools which can be easily moved as a whole. I think it’s very useful, efficient and effective.
FTR, my small items sit in shallow shelves which themselves hang from keyholes. Not as easy to relocate as the cleat system but easy enough.
RE: How do you hang tools on the wall? - DogwoodTales - 04-10-2025
(04-10-2025, 09:59 AM)Gary G™ Wrote: Interesting you would say this.
When I think of cleats, I don’t think of each individual tool.
Rather, I think of a tool cabinet or container containing tools which can be easily moved as a whole. I think it’s very useful, efficient and effective.
FTR, my small items sit in shallow shelves which themselves hang from keyholes. Not as easy to relocate as the cleat system but easy enough.
Yeah, a cleat system doesn't always mean one cleat to one tool. I'm certainly not criticizing the system. It's just that after seeing several shop videos which employ them I determined that it's not for me - so a waste of my shop time. Things won't move around that often, if at all, and I can move a tool shelf/rack easily enough without the upfront time and materials of a cleat system. There are a few "creator" shop videos on YT that agree.