window tool rack

Grumpy, that is a great idea. Keep the lights on!

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

What a unique idea… My garage is my shop but I would still use this. What are your “Pressure Pads”?

-- Chris

That is cool as heck!... I was looking at how you were hanging your handsaws, that’s a pretty good idea too. Do you ever have problems with the saws falling if you go pounding on the bench or do they stay put?

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

wow great idea. window space is one space i always though you couldn’t touch and could do nothing with it. great job though coming up with a storage solution for this space that seems to always be wasted. thanks for the post.

Before this goes any further, this is NOT MY IDEA. I saw the window tool rack in the Autumn 2007 issue of Woodworking http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/backissue.asp?issuedate=9/1/2007 magazine. I simply pre-assembled mine in one piece and added the adjustable pressure blocks to make it removable since I’m only care taking this property for another year for the homeowners. I hate the pegboard next to it but I’m pretty much stuck with it.

Steve, this not being my place is why I don’t build a saw/plane till proper, (and why I’m stuck with the pegboard) but to answer your question the saws hang very well & have never dropped. The key is to space the “cams” so that they almost but not quite swing all the way past the fixed side. I just made it a 16th. shy. I also used aircraft lock nuts for the pivot so that they could be loose enough to pivot easily and not loosen up and fall out.

Thanks all for the kind words but the rack idea proper I got from Robert Lang. And F.W.I.W., the magazine is great. And no adverts!

That’s an interesting way to save wall space. I may have to do something like it.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.