Hand storage tool

Whether you build one or all three, these simple projects are a great way to keep your shop more organized. These cabinets are the ideal storage solution for any shop. Constructed with framing lumber, the modular design allows you to configure them to match the space in your shop. This wall-mounted cabinet keeps your hand tools nearby, and the drawers are perfect for organizing all of your hardware. It consists of easy-to-build shelves that are face-screwed to a solid wood backer.

This workbench might as well be the Mecca of hand tool storage. There are individual shelves and cabinets for each set of tools, yet nothing is stored away or hidden. Replicating this look will take a lot of time, design, and planning. You can never have enough hammers, but the issue comes when you run out of room to store them.

This is an easy way to make quick work of hammer storage. Two wood brackets are attached to the ends of a board that spans the appropriate distance. This provides a sturdy shelf to slide hammers into instead of piling them in the bottom of a drawer. Pegboard caddies make excellent additions to a garage shop. They provide a lot of storage in spaces that are typically barely used. These caddies stand vertically when stored away and are easily removed when you need the tools that they store.

The key to making this design works is to cut grooves into the top and bottom boards in the cabinet frame to receive the pegboard and keep it in place. Without the grooves, the pegboard will simply tip over, and most of the tools you so-carefully laid out will be strewn across your shop floor.

This wrench storage idea is a far better way to organize your wrenches than piling them into a toolbox drawer. This is a simple design and it can be accomplished on a table saw with a crosscut sled. Register the two marks before passing the workpiece over the blade. This plier-storage box on a french-cleat system is an ideal way to store awkward tools without putting them in a drawer.

Pliers are held upright by a steel rod that has been installed in the middle of each tier. The easiest way to replicate that is to cut both ends of your box, clamp them together, and drill through both ends at the same time. The rod will sit evenly and keep your pliers from tipping over.

This particular rack consists of three tiers of shelves on legs. Replicate these shelves by using dimensional lumber and a drill press. This will give the stamps something to bottom out on while still holding them upright for easier identification. Garden tool storage ideas like the one pictured make storing your awkward tools a non-issue. This rack holds each tool up off the ground, keeping them from falling and you from tripping over them. Dimensional lumber is the perfect material for a job like this.

You may find cutting the slots will be easier by starting with a large spade or Forstner bit and then finishing the cuts with a jigsaw. This should give you a serviceable result while not taking the whole day to accomplish.

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They keep the hooks from moving around, and totally solve the problem where the hook comes out every time you take the tool off the board. To make pegboard work well when installing it against a wall, make sure to use spacers between the peg board and the wall. Or make a DIY version. But you could also use a stack of washers or a piece of wood to keep the pegboard away from the wall. Having said that, there are other pegboard installation options that are a little more work to make but fit more usable pegboard space into a smaller area.

Pegboard fold up cabinet via familyhandyman. At familyhandyman. At woodsmithtips. Screw the other side of the hinges onto the wall. Now that I have them up there, I think I need some more! A pegboard shelf is a great way to add extra storage and save some wall space. Not to mention that this DIY tool shelf is much cheaper than buying pegboard hooks to hold all of these tools!

Depending on how long your shelf is, you may need to add a support in the middle as well to keep it from sagging. I think this is my favorite one of all the tool storage ideas on this list! I can always find my hammers.

And put them back easily a key component to keeping the tools organized! The parts of the tools that prevent them from lying flat on a standard shelf eg. For tools that have larger ends, like drills, you can cut out one of the sections of wire with a wire cutter, and then the drill fits perfectly! Allocate space for chargers with easy access to a plug…that way the chargers are always ready to be used when the batteries for your cordless tools die.

I hung mine on the shelf supports for my workbench. This keeps them handy but off the workbench top. If you are a fan of Ryobi cordless tools like I am, you are in luck! DIY projects seem to use a lot of things that are stored in tall thin cans and bottles spray paint, glue, glaze, etc.

These cans are hard to store on regular shelves since they get knocked over so easily. Which is why the next item on my tool storage ideas list is a shelf built specifically to store them.

When I saw this unused space between the legs on my workbench, I decided to I could put a back on it and install a narrow shelf that is perfect for storing cans of spray paint or bottles of glue. The other benefit of using wire shelves? I can use the front bar to hang spray bottles…another thing that tends to fall over all the time on regular shelves!

If you have extra space left on your rod, you could use S-hooks to hang other tools like paint brushes. I already had bins that I was using for this kind of thing…so the organization system was in place. The problem that I had was that I never put the leftover screws from my projects into the bins! Label the front of every bin with what is in it. Although if you have neater handwriting than mine, masking tape and a pen would work fine, too!

That way you can accurately measure the size of any screw or bolt that you come across and put it in the right place. Even though I own at least 5 of them, I can never find a tape measure when I need it. Install electrical boxes beside all of the places where you are usually measuring things.