Cordless tool batteries and chargers have a way of taking over a workbench: cords tangled together, chargers stacked on top of each other, batteries scattered wherever there’s an open outlet. This build is a shop-made answer to that: a single wall-mounted plywood station that gives every charger a shelf and every drill or driver its own angled cubby.
The Design: An Angled Shelf Over a Row of Cubbies
The station is built as a plywood box with a sloped front face. Two shelves sit inside the upper portion of the case for chargers and loose batteries, while the lower shelf angles down and forward over a row of five vertical plywood dividers, creating individual slots that a drill or impact driver can be dropped into handle-down. That angle does double duty. It keeps the tools’ battery packs and trigger housings visible and easy to grab, rather than buried flat on a shelf.
The plywood used throughout has the pale, tight, cross-ply look consistent with the birch plywood used in several of the other shop-storage builds in this archive, though no sheet label or receipt is visible in any photo to confirm the exact species or thickness.
Building the Angled Carcase
The case itself started as a straightforward plywood box (two sides, a back panel, and the angled shelf assembly) glued up and clamped square on the workbench before the dividers went in. Corner clamps hold the joints tight while the glue sets, a simple approach that doesn’t require anything more exotic than parallel-jaw and corner clamps.
Once the main box was square, the sloped lower shelf and the five cubby dividers were added, and the whole assembly went back into clamps to let the glue cure with the angle held in place.
Adding the Charging Shelves
With the carcase built, the two upper shelves were sized to hold chargers and spare batteries side by side. The photos show a mix of DeWalt 20V batteries and chargers on the top shelf and RIDGID chargers and batteries on the shelf below. It’s a reminder that a station like this doesn’t need to be built around a single tool brand, just around the footprint of whatever chargers are actually sitting on the bench.
Mounting It to the Shop Wall
Once the carcase was assembled, the whole unit was mounted directly to the shop wall next to the table saw, with screws running through the case front and back into the wall structure behind it. The photos don’t show the exact fastening hardware or whether it lands on studs versus a mounting cleat, so anyone following along should plan their own wall attachment based on what’s behind their own wall.
Loading It Up
With the case mounted and the glue still curing in a few of the clamps, the shelves went to work right away. Batteries and chargers lined up across both levels, cords tucked behind, and the cubbies below ready for drills, impact drivers, and a flashlight to drop into. It’s a small footprint on the wall for how much clutter it clears off the bench.
Once the cubbies below are holding drills and drivers the same way the top shot at the start of this post shows, it’s a genuinely useful little corner of the shop: one glance tells you what’s charged, what’s not, and where every driver actually lives.
For a companion approach to cordless-tool storage, see the French cleat tool wall with a built-in battery charging station, a different build tackling the same clutter problem with a French-cleat mounting system instead of a fixed plywood case.
Need somewhere to put the flat squares, levels, and saws that don’t fit in a charging cubby? See our wall-mounted tool storage panel for squares, levels, and saws and our DIY OSB tool storage cabinet for cordless power tools.