Making of the "Mother of all Toolboards" (Tool Board / Tool Wall / Tool Rack)
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024
- This video is all about the design and making of the (tongue-in-cheek named) "Motherofalltoolboards". It's a toolboard or toolwall concept based on a combination of a pegboard and a normal toolboard. The toolboard is an adaptable or reconfigurable toolboard which is also aesthetically pleasing (unlike pegboard). It has the ability to be adapted for future shiny tools entering your workshop. It uses up your offcuts which would otherwise be burnt on the fire and offers many opportunities for those still acquiring handtool skills to practice on small pieces, both simple in construction and those slightly more demanding. Overall, the Motherofalltoolboards will make your workshop look fab and also offer practicality with your tools being right near where you need them and giving you at a glance accountability for the whereabouts of your tools. Now, where did I put that tenon saw...?!!
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04:42 Toolboard Design
05:09 Cutting the plywood & mounting it on the wall
05:30 First Toolholder - Chisel Rack (Marples Chisels)
05:43 Engineer's Square Rack
06:00 Tenon Saw Holder
06:21 Vernier Caliper Holder & another saw holder
06:37 Screwdriver Rack
06:39 Dovetail Marker Rack (Veritas)
06:55 Marking/Cutting Gauge Rack
06:59 Thor Mallet Holder
07:06 Fretsaw Rack
07:12 Mini-Carving Gouge Rack
07:19 Marking Knife Rack & Sliding Bevel/Dividers Holder
07:29 Metalwork Hacksaw Holder
07:43 Japanese Saw Holder
07:49 Glazing Hammer Holder
08:25 Zyliss Vise Holders
09:32 Octagonal Wooden Mallet Holder
09:53 Cabinet Scraper Rack
10:11 Demo of Adding Inserts & Installing a Toolholder
10:25 Demo of Moving Toolholders to a new location
10:40 Dovetail Saw Holder (Lie Nielsen)
11:00 Marking Knife Holder (Blue Spruce Toolworks)
11:09 Dovetail Chisel Holder (Ashley Iles)
11:58 Knew Concepts Fretsaw fits the Fretsaw Rack!
12:06 Brace Holder
12:35 Glen Drake Kerf Starter & Burnisher Holder
13:22 Glen Drake Brass Hammer Holder
13:49 Brass Plane Hammer Holder (David Barron)
13:58 Ball Pein Hammer Holder
14:00 David Barron Awl Holder
14:05 Spokeshave & Scraper Rack
15:39 Hultafors Hammer Holder
16:09 Egg Beater Drill Holder
Exquisite craftsmanship. I like looking at the still images because I could study the customs shapes for each tool. My favorite is the swivel lock for the long saw.
Thanks for your kind words Catt. ☺️ It was good practice for me to improve my skills.
Love the grid and insert concept.After many years of working in anything but cabinetmaking, which I started my life doing I am finally getting around to having my own workshop, rather compact but mine. My tools are coming out of their tool chest and I've been looking for ways to store/display/have to hand and you've given me the best solution I ever seen.It appeals on so many levels.The grid and inserts, using beautiful timber, exercising old skills in planing, mounting and finishing.Glad I found your channel.
Well thanks once again Nic for your kind words. I didn’t quite understand if you have been working as a cabinetmaker for years or if you started off as a cabinetmaker and then had several other jobs outside of woodwork? But either way it sounds as though you’re setting up your home shop which is always great fun. I’m glad you like this concept. I don’t like pegboard which was the catalyst for this. I’m not sure I want a tool chest either as I don’t travel to work on stuff. I guess the downside with this idea is that your tools will get dusty and spiders like them but a regular cleanup keeps it tidy. I like the fact that you can tell immediately if a tool has gone walkabout! Where are you based Nic?
I am making 2'x6' pullouts on both sides of a tool cabinet. Thanks for the great ideas and inspiration.
Thanks Larry. I’m not sure what you’re building but glad it helps!
Looks beatiful, great wood choice for the tool supports.
Thanks Matias. Yeah I really like walnut and I had loads of offcuts to use up so it was a good use for them
Hi Steve, I have watched literally hundreds of videos on tool storage for my small shop, and you have one of the most inspirational Tool-boards I have seen. I had taken down my peg board (which looked Tacky) in the hope of finding something like this. Love the 50mm pencil grid, Great video thank you.
Thanks Ralph, much appreciated. Peg Board was my reason for trying to come up with a nicer way of hanging your tools up. If you make like this or with elements taken from this please share it online so we can see it! all the best Steve
There are some good ideas in there for my board. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻
Thanks very much, glad you liked it. cheers Steve
I trained for 3 years at Rycotewood College and spent the next 3 or 4 years making bespoke furniture before working for couple of big concerns. Then worked for myself for 6 years before ending up a part time wheelchair user.But I'm still sort of capable of light bench work and I'm trying to sort out my workshop.I'm based in North Yorkshire
I’m sorry to hear about your situation, Nic, that must be tough? You’re obviously a talented maker. I have no formal training sadly as I’m an engineer during the day. So everything I know about woodwork is from short courses, books, mags and web. But engineering is similar to making furniture in that you start by designing, make protos and test them, and then get the real version made. Just different materials used. I hope you get your shop setup soon. That will, no doubt, be a fantastic outlet for you... 👍🍀 If you’re on Instagram then feel free to follow me for more frequent but shorter content, if you like that platform? @steveswoodcave
Magnificent tool board! Quite a bit beyond my skills, though, but I did learn quite a bit. Thanks
Thanks very much! The holders do not need to be complicated at all, you are free to make them how you like! 😊👍
Great idea. Well done. This has given me some good ideas to tidy my garage workshop!!
Chris Musson thanks Chris! What ideas has it given you? Cheers Steve
I particularly like the toolboard layout in 50mm squares and the fixing system. Great for moving things around. I have the WR600 and have finally bitten the bullet to make use of it! Cheers.
OK, good to know, thanks. It has the advantage of pegboard (adaptability) & which hopefully looks better. Plus you can make your own toolholder how you want to. I thought about adding some simple small shelves too which just screw into the grid.You could add doors on part of it or all of it too I guess, if you want to keep the dust off. Good luck with it and your WR600... cheers Steve
Lol I just put some screws in a wooden plank, didn't even think about optimal positions. But then again I don't really use tools much, just bought a set cause I figured some might come in handy one day haha. Big brain
😂 each to their own, hey?! I’m sure this is what most folk do but I have a bit of OCD I think! 😬👍
We're good. One of them best systems I've seen. Thanks.
James Taylor thanks James. Glad you liked it! Cheers Steve
Beautiful work. The contrasting wood makes it pop.
Thanks Brian, appreciate your kind words.
Good job. One thing that I don't like about many tool boards is that there's mostly just one layer of tools. I like to see ways to hang more tools per square foot. I mean things like a rear rank of screwdrivers behind a front rank of screwdrivers, or a fixture that holds 3 hacksaws, or multiples of files. One tool per square foot often isn't dense enough.
Thanks Duke. I think everyone likes different things. The trick is to take what you like from something you see and use those elements with whatever else you like. I could easily make these toolholders deeper and have 2 or more rows of tools in each holder, but that wouldn’t work for me in my narrow shop. So I intentionally made these shallow. The concept of this toolboard is that it is completely changeable. So in the future if I wanted to or needed to I could make new deeper multi-row holders. I like the flexibility of this toolboard concept.
Steve, you know that I'm a big fan of the moat. Great use of those offcuts. Really good to get some of your thinking around the design. Also, liked the use of the cardboard corners for drying items on . Thanks for sharing. Cheers Dave.
Thanks very much Dave! The toolboard concept may not be so easy to appreciate at a first glance. The cardboard corners are really useful for finishing stuff. But sometimes they can leave marks on your work so maybe the addition of small pointy sticks is a good idea. cheers Steve
That's one mighty fine Toolboard :-)
Thanks! 👍😊
Very nicely done. I don't think I have the patience and time to build everything perfectly. Most of the time it's "Oh, I need a holder for this tool", pull out some scrap, cut something to hold it and screw it to the wall on the next space.
Thanks Peter, Yeah it has become an obsession but once you start with a project like this it has to be completed, or mostly completed. It’s just a good way of using up those offcuts and creating a tool wall that isn’t ugly like pegboard. But everyone’s different, hey?!! 😊👍
@@SteveCashmoreWoodworks Yeah never been a fan of pegboard with the hooks falling out. I've always had to keep most tools in drawers, as the shed gets a bit of condensation where we live so tools go rusty. I'm hoping to remedy that situation very soon!
Very impressive work. The Walnut looks fabulous. 👍
David Handley Thanks very much David. It’s obviously not quick to do but worth it in the end!
I like your toolboard. Some music over the photo's would be nice.
Thanks. Yeah this was one of my very early videos, later videos have music. But I can’t win either way as other people are complaining that they don’t like the music! Maybe I have to post two videos each time, one with music and one without! 🤔
Great idea
Thanks Paul, glad you like it!
Hi Steve, Great ideas.....Which is the book you are using??
Thanks Pep. I’m not sure what book you are asking about? Did I mention a book in this video?
@@SteveCashmoreWoodworks Hi Steve, you didn't mention but at minut 14'30" you have a book with some draws of dovetails.....on the table.....
Ah ok, very well spotted! 😂👍 That is the furnituremaker’s bible which is called “The Technique of Furnituremaking”, 4th Edition, by Ernest Joyce and revised by Alan Peters. If you only buy one book on furnituremaking, buy this one. It’s invaluable. Try Amazon or other good online book stores...
brilliant. bare carpentry skills not o router in sight nice chisel work
Thanks Lee. Glad you liked it. I did and do use power tools as you can see in this video and my other videos. But most toolholders were made by hand tools. I guess I’m a hybrid woodworker!
Nice job....
Thanks very much, glad you like it, cheers Steve
Awesome work...can I ask why you don’t screw straight into the wall? Why the “hollow bolt sleeves”?
Thanks. You can if you prefer, I just prefer the look of the threaded inserts. A bolt head also looks better than a screw head. If you move a toolholder in the future and leave a screw hole behind it won’t look nice. Whereas if a threaded insert is left free and not used it will look much nicer and can be used by another toolholder at some point should you decide to change it again in the future. But some people aren’t too bothered about such things, so whatever you prefer really.
StevesWoodCave many thanks for the reply...looks really good. Thanks for the inspiration 😎
hi ! it loooks great....tool board without a wrench pipe...any idea how to strore them ?
Zerzour Saddok thanks very much. Like all the tools here, to make a holder you just need to measure it and draw around it. Then you can decide how to make the holder. Good luck...!
One way is to very rigidly mount a horizontal bar of flat steel. Maybe 1" by 3/16". Hang the big pipe wrenches vertically by hanging their jaws over the top edge of the steel flat. Hang smaller ones by closing the jaws enough to grip that bar at a 45. That can be quite heavy and torquey, if you have a lot of pipe wrenches.
talented
Thanks 😊
Checkout the tool-board shown on www.workshoptoolstickers.com They make vinyl tool-shadow stickers and the website shows hundreds of them. They also show a tool-board made from a painted 6' x 3' chipboard sheet. Looks pretty good too.
Thanks for the tip Brian but that wouldn’t work with my reconfigurable toolboard concept. It’s ok to have stickers if you never change anything on your board but this thing is meant to be changeable in the future when adding or removing tools. So personally I wouldn’t add stickers. 😊👍
Hi Steve & thanks for your reply. I think your way is the right way if you decide from the start to create a fluid structure to suit changing needs. In some ways I 'accidentally' have the same potential to change tools too, because these stickers are easily removed and economically replaced, although I'd need to patch-up a few holes along the way. The true reality though is that a functional tool-board is a great start to providing a tidier, safer workshop.
Thank you for sharing this, very helpful, exactly what I was looking for! A silly question maybe, but how did you fix the main boards to the wall? Thank you again.
Thanks Francesco. At the top there is a French cleat system and at the bottom there is just a strip of wood of same thickness as for the cleat. So you just screw the cleat rail to the wall along the top. On the back of the toolboard ply screw the top cleat rail along the top and the normal strip of wood along the bottom. Hang the whole toolboard ply onto the top cleat rail and then secure the bottom rail with a handful of screws along the bottom rail and into the wall. Hope this helps?
@@SteveCashmoreWoodworks perfectly clear, thank you!
Is that a router mount i see in the middle of your work bench?
Yes it is. I built this bench 20 years ago in my then tiny shop so I had to integrate several functions into various things. I’ve now got more space so have a separate router table. This bench has also been replaced now with a Roubo.
Hi what table saw are you using ?
I’m using a Scheppach TS4020 which I bought in 2010. In case you don’t know, Scheppach is a German manufacturer.
Why can't your video have Closed Captioning?
woodfold sorry I don’t know what closed captioning is, please explain...
StevesWoodCave it is words on your the screen that repeat everything he says so that if you are in a loud or quiet environment you can read what he is saying.
Franky Alvarez thanks for the explanation Franky. 👍😊
StevesWoodCave no problem 👍🏼