Wall tool holders

A lot of people use pegboard to hold tools within easy reach on the wall. While offering lots of flexibility, I personally find pegboard a little ugly. It's much nicer to make a bunch of custom holders out of wood to hold the various tools.

Of course, making these is surprisingly time consuming, but the result is very satisfying. The picture above shows the wall above my workbench with the drill press on it. I moved the drill press out of the way to take these photos.

The screwdriver holder is easiest to make. It's just a board attached to the wall, with a lot of holes in it. There's also a slot to hold the scissors.

Because it's just to the right of the drill press, I use some of the holes for drill chuck keys.

To hold a lot of pliers, it's easiest to just hook them onto the edge of a piece of wood. A lot of pliers go in a small amount of space that way. The piece of wood in this holder is tapered towards the top edge, so that it doesn't force the handles too far apart.

It's really only about half full with pliers so far.

The caliper holder is a neat shaped piece of wood. It has a channel in the middle for the bar of the calipers, and a hook on either side to hold the sliding part. I mounted this so it's not far from the table saw, because I use the calipers in combination with the table saw most often.

I also have a dial caliper, but I keep that one in a case in the drawer. The vernier calipers are pretty much invulnerable to dust, whereas anything fancier might get gummed up.

The chisel holder was another fun one to build. I drilled the holes so that they just touch the edge of the piece of wood, then cut in from the edge to the holes, so it's possible to slide the chisel in from the front. The holes are slightly wider at the top and bottom - Wider at the top to better catch the handle, and at the bottom to give room for the wider chisels.

I dimensioned it to work best with the marples chisel set, although it works with my other chisels too.

A holder for the hammers.

The wooden mallet at the left is home made. Easy enough to make one. I don't understand why people buy them when they are so easy to make.

On the right side is the marking gauge, and miter gauge, and a funny fine toothed saw hanging to the left of those.

Holders for the hand planes. These are very time consuming to make.

Tool holders Continued...

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