Tool Shop Organization

Tips for getting more storage space out of your small workshop.

Matthias over at Woodgears.ca has done a series of videos detailing the custom wooden tool holders he built to reorganize his workshop. You can see images

Typical workshop pegboards are too small for a big tool collection. The solution? Take a cue from the office rolodex and build a Tool-O-Dex, a pegboard flip book that packs 64 square feet of storage into 8 feet of wall space.

These shop-built holders keep tools and accessories organized.

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Plier Storage

How-To: Pegboard "leaves" for tool organization. My dad desperately needs this in the garage lol. Our garage looks like a serial killer's house with saws and machetes everywhere. -.-

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Hand tool storage

In an effort to better organize my home workspace I decided that I needed to get some of my non-work tools out of boxes/bags and into places where I could more easily access the ones I use most. My solution was simple, and probably the same solution that many of you use, pegboard. A full sheet of pegboard is cheap, and with the right hooks and attachments, you can organize a good portion of your tools. Next all I needed was pegboard hooks. Lucky for me, my Father had a box full of them that…

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Pegboard Cubbyholes - Here's a tool storage technique for all those slender tools and shop accessories. Cut short lengths of PVC pipe (1-1/2- and 2-in.-diameter pipes work well for most items) and slide them over pegboard hooks. Then load them up with files, hacksaw blades, zip ties, pencils, stir sticks...you get the skinny.

Pegboard "book" | 10 Ways to Organize Tools (So You Can Actually Find Them)