Workers Of Wood

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.

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

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.

Stick486 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:35 pm 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

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:36 pm How do you keep your apron from snagging on them?

the rack is recessed...

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

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.