Another Question About Shop Storage

Well, if you like pegboard like I do, you can hang small shelves on it to make it even more user friendly.

Using 3/4 inch stock, glue two pieces of wood together at right angles. The width of one could be 3 inches the width of the other about 5 inches and a length of about 12 inches is handy. Glue on the longer edge square. In the top back corner you can screw in two "L" hooks. They look just like the letter that describes them. Buy them at your local hardware store. Screw them in so they point up and create a hook to go into the peg board. Of course you'll have to line up the hooks with your pegboard. But once that's done you'll end up with a 5" shelf that you can position anywhere on the pegboard. Real handy for small items like glue bottles and such. If you need a picture emailed better describing let me know.

I have my tools hung by magnetic holders sold by Woodcraft and others. These hold all my lathe tools very tight and there are no hooks falling down behind my lathe that is also up against a wall. These holders hang nice against the wall on one big sheet of plywood and are easily moved by two screws in need be. I have about 6 of them to hold all my tools right at arms length.

Tim

For what it's worth...

I dislike stuff on shelves, they collect dust fast. So what I do keep on shelves, I use the wire grid closet shelves. At least the dust falls through to the floor.

I'm slowly adding doors to my open cabinets for the same reason. Also the closed door looks a lot better than the cluttered shelf.

I lucked out and got an old laboratory cabinet for a workbench base. It has lots of big drawers and some small ones. I'm slowly modifying them to hold my hand tools. I find that it is as quick to go to the drawer as it is to reach on the pegboard for things, and I can put more in drawers than on pegboard.

In 10 years more I should be organized!

Old Guy

Think Modular. You're going to acquire new stuff along the way

- jaw chucks, live centers, tail centers, chucks, dividers . . . So start with laying out all your lathe related stuff - chisels and gouges, tool rests, centers, chucks, jaws, wrenches etc. Group them Like With Like so you can find them easier. Make wall hanging boards - with turned pegs - you've got the lathe, why not use it. Will give you plenty of experience with various gouges and chisels. I got really good with a skew turning a truckload of pegs.

Layout the stuff that go together and work out a Minimum Foot Print (even though it's going on the wall near the lathe, wall space, like floor space is always limited - and precious. Once you have a good idea of what can go where, mark their "centers" and turn pegs - or drill holes - morse tapered things don't hang well off of pegs.

With chisels and gouges - you want them quick at hand - but not able to bump into each other. Edges hitting steel is a No No.

Here's what I came up with - a module for centers, jacobs chuck, an awl, allen wrenches and burning wires, dividers etc.

- a module for scroll chuchs (2) and jaw sets along with tool rests

- a module for the JoolTool sharpening stuff

- a "box" for chisels and gouges.

- a removable/ moveable shelf for the JoolTool which can be mounted on either end of the lathe bench and slid foreward when in use and bacl when not in use.

Since these pictures were taken I've moved the lathe AND all its accourtements. Remove some screws, move a module where I think it'll work and drive the screws back into the wall. For furniture making "bench tools, a wall hanging cabinet with space for tool storage in the doors works well. You'd be amazed at how much stuff you can fit in a small volume - and still be able to see, and get to just about everything

The wall hanging tool cabinets sold me on the "modular" idea. I've rearranged things a few times and changed out some of the modules that didn't work as well as I'd thought. Go modular and Like With Like.

charlie b