perforated hardboard storage ideas

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:39 am

Does anyone have any ideas, plans...etc for 8"-10" deep wall mounted cabinets
utilizing "peg board"?
Thanks, folks.

dlbristol · Post by **dlbristol** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:33 pm

Gene, Here is a picture of one I did. I was unable to get the site to link, but if you google Wood Magizine, go to the index button and it is on that page. Oct 2006 I think. It is under "Shop in a Box". I made it from recycled plywood and salvaged peg board. Two suggestions to modify the plan. One make the doors about 1/4 in smaller than they suggest. They are tight and when I had other errors in the case, they were tough to open. Secondly, I used some salvaged peg board that is 1/4 ( I think, but thicker that regular stuff) for all but one door. I ran out of it, so I got some thinner board for that door. The difference in the stiffness of the doors is very apparent. I have to keep lighter stuff on that one door.
If I could not find the thicker peg board, I would put some type of spacer glued to both the inside and outside peg board.

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:56 pm

Gene

I once built some storage cabinets for a garage and used peg board for the panels in the doors. They had storage behind the doors but could hang things from the doors themselves on both the inside or outside. It worked well but looked a little cluttered for my taste. Of course they did a terrible job of organizing so that added to the look.

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:15 pm

mbcabinetmaker wrote:Gene

I once built some storage cabinets for a garage and used peg board for the panels in the doors. They had storage behind the doors but could hang things from the doors themselves on both the inside or outside. It worked well but looked a little cluttered for my taste. Of course they did a terrible job of organizing so that added to the look.

I always get a chuckle out of magazine articles where they talk about some tool panel above a bench eliminating "clutter". Then they show a picture of a tool panel and it has less than a dozen tools on it. They usually are in a wood shop and the tools consist of a hand saw, a square, a C clamp a hammer, a hack saw, a pipe wrench a garden trowel and a garden hose nozzle...

This shot from my old shop is a "tool panel".

http://picasaweb.google.com/robinson46176/WoodShop#5325281153042619090
http://picasaweb.google.com/robinson46176/WoodShop#5340913588641699346
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My wife owns more tools than what some of those magazines call "clutter".

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I love "Wood" and "Woodworkers Journal" but some of the shop mags I pickup and flip through are really feeble...

regnar · Post by **regnar** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:39 pm

I think someone has a hammer and drill fetish......

mikelst · Post by **mikelst** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:58 pm

Some years ago I got plans at a shopsmith demo for a 'workbench on the wall'. This consists of a cabinet that is about 4'x3'x11" and a workbench that folds down flat to the wall when not in use The cabinet was framed with 1x6 that was rabbited to let you insert perf board about 1/2" in from the back and the doors (also 1x6) about 1/2" in from the front.
You may still be able to get the plans from Shopsmith.
I built it in my garage and used it for a couple of years. I like it quit well, but when we made the garage conversion I lost it. I did cut the cabinet down and mounted the pegboards on the 'new' shop (old shed) walls.

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:38 pm

[quote="robinson46176"]This shot from my old shop is a "tool panel".

Yep! Thats a cluttered up mess to be proud of.

horologist · Post by **horologist** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:44 pm

robinson46176 wrote:I always get a chuckle out of magazine articles where they talk about some tool panel above a bench eliminating "clutter". Then they show a picture of a tool panel and it has less than a dozen tools on it. They usually are in a wood shop and the tools consist of a hand saw, a square, a C clamp a hammer, a hack saw, a pipe wrench a garden trowel and a garden hose nozzle...

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My wife owns more tools than what some of those magazines call "clutter".
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I love "Wood" and "Woodworkers Journal" but some of the shop mags I pickup and flip through are really feeble...

Francis,
I couldn't agree more. My dad and I had a similar conversation about an article in some forgotten woodworking magazine. The decorative cabinet with its sparse array of artistically arranged tools wasn't worth the wall space it occupied.

Just remember... It's not clutter... It's efficient use of space!

A view of my old 9' x 7' shop. Everything in reach.

Troy

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mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:23 pm

How do you get a partial quote and still have it remain in the white quote box? When I try it turns to regular gray.

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:27 pm

dlbristol wrote:Gene, Here is a picture of one I did.

Thank you!! Exactly what I was looking for. I ordered the plans. I will be modifying them some what. Thanks for the tips, too.

Farmer, I'm surprised at the neatness of your shop. Do you need a few more hammers?

Gene

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