Shop Organization #2: Wall Slat Organizers

Oh yes. Very nice. Good start to getting organized. I am sure you will have a ton of fun designing and making storage organizers for your different tools and accessories.

-- Scott in Texas

SWEEEEEEEEET, I think this will be pilfered, I mean borrowed many times over. Thanks for posting.

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

I agree with Grant! Maybe because I’m already planning on “borrowing” the idea myself! Great Start!

-- Robbinscabin

Cunning idea. Must copy thiwhen my new shop is ready.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Looks great!! Please post more as you go along?

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Steve, that really LOOKS COOL!! ... and SO Simple!

In looking at your example, it appears that your slats could be a little closer together and still work just fine… or maybe the little Tool Carriers are different in sizes from one to another??

Looks like the Back piece of the Carrier is 1/4” stuff… I guess you then have a 1/4” (+1/32” or so) groove in the upper portion of the slat so the Carrier can fit into it?

Really very NICE!

Thank you for showing!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

Neat idea Steve & very practical. It’s usually the simple ones work best.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks all…

Yes, Joe… all the carriers are different sizes. They range from tool boxes to worktops to little bity simple holders like what you see in the pic. As I build, I’ll post more. The slats are 3” with 5” of space between them. The plans called for a 6” gap, but I shrunk it down to fit more in it.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Way COOL! This makes so much ore sense than a peg board system, as the metal pegs are always falling out and then you never have enough of the long ones to hold multiple items on one peg. Feel free to invite yourself over to make one in my woodshop! Dinner is on me!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I saw that same article and have hung on to it to do the same. I have been trying to get my shop organized too…if I could find the floor, it would be a lot easier!!

-- robbi-Yadahooty!

Hi Steve;

Looks like a great system. Some of the most fun I have in the shop is organizing it. (And don’t tell anyone this, but I actually enjoy cleaning it! Some kind of Zen thing I think).

Great post.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

What did you use for spacers to keep the wood slats from touching the back board?

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I ran the slats thru the tablesaw on their edge with the blade height set at 1 inch. I only shaved off maybe 1/32.

Here it is after it’s cut, the 1/4 ply goes on the part of the slat that isn’t cut.

Then I cut strips of 1/4” plyboard 2 1/2” wide and just tacked them on the back with brads.

Then, I screwed the entire thing on the wall with drywall screws. Taking the 1/32 off the slat really helps being able to put the organizers in and out of the slats (gives it just a little more room).

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Very clever!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Great adaptation of an excellent idea Steve, similar to a French cleat but easier to construct. Now the real creativeness comes, designing all the custom holders for those odd ball shaped thingamajigs and whatchamacallits.

-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles

this is great!
Being short of stature and having a deep workbench, everything on the back wall is pretty much inaccessible to me… but this has potential!!
THanks :)
Oh – Rick.. guess what we’re going to build??!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

great idea and also good looking Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease