Category: Shop
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Wall-Mounted Tool Storage Panel for Squares, Levels, and Saws
Wall-Mounted Tool Storage Panel for Squares, Levels, and Saws Squares, levels, and hand saws are some of the most awkward tools in a shop to store. They’re flat, they’re oddly shaped, and they don’t hang well on a standard pegboard hook. This panel solves that with a simple idea: a row of horizontal wood cleats,…
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Building a Pallet Wood Storage Bin (With a Matching Lumber Rack)
Every shop ends up with two piles that never go away: cut-offs too small to throw out, and full-length boards with nowhere to lean. This build tackles both at once: a fully enclosed rolling storage bin for scraps, and a companion open-divider lumber rack for longer boards, both built the same weekend from the same…
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DIY 2×4 Garage Storage Rack With OSB-Divided Bays
This one’s a build-in-progress: a shop storage rack framed up from 2×4 dimensional lumber, with OSB panels forming divided bays down its length. It’s documented here at the framing and glue-up stage: clamped square in the driveway while the glue cures, before any finish or install decisions were made. Project Overview The rack is built…
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A DIY Plywood Charging Station for Cordless Tools
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…
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The Simple 2×4 Shop Stool: An Easy Weekend Build
Not every shop project needs to be complicated. This one is about as simple as furniture gets: four straight legs, a braced box-stretcher base, and a single flat seat, all built from basic dimensional lumber and finished with Danish oil. It’s a tall, bar-height stool, sized for standing at a workbench rather than sitting at…
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Mobile Miter Saw Station: A Rolling Cart with Built-In Storage
Not every shop has room for a miter saw station that lives permanently in one spot. This cart was built for exactly that problem: a mobile miter saw station on locking casters, with a saw bay and tool storage built right into it, that can be rolled into place when it’s needed and pushed out…
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DIY Miter Saw Station with Built-In Dust Collection
A miter saw earns a permanent spot in almost every shop, but it rarely gets a permanent home. More often it’s clamped to a folding table or set on a couple of sawhorses, dust going everywhere, with nowhere to put the cut-offs. This station was built to fix all three problems at once: a dedicated…
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DIY Rustic Dart Board Cabinet from Reclaimed Pallet Wood
I had a stack of reclaimed pallet boards sitting in the shop and a dart board that needed a home, so I built a surround for it instead of just screwing the board straight into drywall. The result is a simple recessed wood frame that holds the dartboard, catches stray darts, and adds a bit…
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A Shop-Built Crosscut Sled for a Jobsite Table Saw
A crosscut sled is one of the more common shop-built accessories for a table saw, it rides in the miter slots on runners underneath, carries the workpiece across the blade square to the fence instead of relying on the saw’s stock miter gauge, and gives a much more repeatable, controlled cut than freehanding a board…
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DIY Plywood Clamp Storage Rack for Pipe and Bar Clamps
Clamps multiply. A few pipe clamps and a handful of bar clamps turn into a leaning pile in a corner faster than almost anything else in a shop, and that pile is exactly what this rack was built to fix. The corner in question already had a simple two-tier utility shelf mounted on a vertical…