I had pegboard in two previous home shops and always hated it. As
others have noted, the clips always came off, etc.. I vowed that
someday I would have something else. When we moved into our house ten
years ago I had room for a 20' x 35' shop in the basement. The house
design resulted in an alcove in the shop area. I built a set of open
cabinets with shelves that hold plastic bins for hardware for the
bottom of the alcove. Above them are three tool boards of 1/2" birch
ply wood. The tools are organized by function (measuring & marking,
screw and nut handling, edge cutting, hole making, etc.) Each tool
has a custom fitted maple fixture to hold it to the plywood. It works
great. I really enjoy making things and for a while wasn't working on
furniture so I made the fixtures. It was a challenge to design some
of the holders but all in all provided lots of good shop time.




On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:12:53 -0600, Phil wrote:

I've always struggled with organization, but after 30 years a few hings
are starting to come around. I have a large area of pegbboard that has
been under utilized. Years ago I organized all my clamps in one area of
pegboard, made sense. Last year, I realized another area of pegboard
would make sense with grouping measuring tools. i.e. rules, squares,
levels. This morning I think hand cutting, saws, chisels, shears, saw
blades.
I'm to old to wait another 30 years, what ideas are out there for shop
organization?