Shop hammer rack

[Cherryville Chuck]

Here's a good idea from Lee Valley on how to store hammers. You need to watch the few seconds of video to see how it works. https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/discove ... OY8,BMVX,1

This is a pretty clever idea to keep your hammers organized and take up minimal space. It's also a good use for plywood offcuts. If you have quite a few hammers you might want to make 2 racks and mount one below the other with the slots offset by half. If the holders have a tendency to vibrate open over time this could easily be fixed by putting a 1/4" rare earth magnet in each holder and inserting a screw into the rack for it to attract to.

[Stick486]

I took the faster route...
this is on the end of the assembly table...

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[Cherryville Chuck]

Mine are essentially the same Stick, i.e. on peg board pegs but mine are just hung singly with shorter peg board hooks. But I do like that rack Mak made just the same. I don't often use hammers on my joinery bench so wall hung is good for me.

[Herb Stoops]

I took the faster route...
this is on the end of the assembly table...

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How do you keep your apron from snagging on them?
Herb

[Stick486]

How do you keep your apron from snagging on them?

the rack is recessed...

[DaninVan]

IMHO the LV rack is way overthought. Either Stick's pegboard holders or finger slots in a plywood 'shelf' would be way more practical.

[Cherryville Chuck]

It's not for everybody but it is an elegant solution. Someone accused me once of being inelegant (aka crude) with most of my jigs. Besides, it's sometimes the idea that counts. I love the general look of Mission Furniture but there might not be a single design that I wouldn't tweak somehow. The original designs provide the inspiration just like I needed to see Herb's long reach clamp before I could come up with a design of my own.

As for how I keep my hammers and mallets, as I said much like Stick does and like him I have certain tools handy at the bench. For me the most important ones to keep handy are my layout tools: 2 regular framing squares, one 12x6" framing square for short spaces, 2 triangular speed squares, a 12" hook rule, and a center finding rule. And I like having all my small clamps handy plus a few edge clamps and some hand screw clamps. My bench has a stretcher running under it and the other side has spring clamps stacked on wooden dowels. One of the ways I've always judged a design is whether I would do it differently if I started all over and I'm not sure I'd change a thing unless I decided to put drawers under the bench. In my situation I built an outfeed table for my TS a few feet away and it has 27 drawers in it so that eliminated the need to have them under the bench.