Turn the middle chisel holder around so when it's open all 3 surfaces are visible. I've recently started to add label on my holders to identify sizes of their contents. They have proven so useful especially on my spanner and sockets sets.

I don't use chisels that often, but I think this idea would work great as a drill bit/accessories holder. Great video, thank you for sharing and God bless.

The cleat taper and dowel. Bloody hell. That’s brilliant… 🪄🧙‍♂️

I love your videos, they literally help me to start making. I was in a customers house and saw a heart shaped peice of wood with some of the center routed out. They had it next to their coffee pot to keep a stirring spoon. A lot of us across the pond keep a spoon there. It reminded me of the video you made with two boards making a number of simple projects. One of my favorites. Now I'm off to make your upgraded tool holders. Have a wonderful day

OMG!! 43k Subscribers??? You are still amazing me! Sorry you haven’t heard from me lately. I lost my oldest daughter (39 yrs old) last June. She was my best friend, travel buddy and the family planner/party organizer. The loss absolutely knocked all the wind out of me. Grief kicked me down hard. Sorry for over sharing, I just want you to know that I’m still watching and you are still my favorite KZfaq woodworker/entrepreneur (and videographer!) I’ve missed being involved but clearly you are on the fast track! Thanks, Mark! Keep up your great sense of humor and the amazing work!

This is pretty damn clever. I'm just finished ply lining my walls and throwing up some Ivar cabinets from IKEA up high, french cleats are next and I really like this fold out idea. Thanks Mark!

Well Mark, you know how much I enjoy your videos, but with all this making of cleat walls tool storage, magnets right left and centre, don't know how you find time to make anything!! Haha, great video as always, keep 'em coming and stay lucky, cheers

you need to create a play list called "sticking with Magnet's" and put all your videos that have magnet tip's in there too. :) Great work

Nice set up Mark - great idea with the chisel holder. Just a thought if you want to make your saw holder smaller, you could save 12 /18 mm (thickness of your ply) on each saw holder - if you tapered the top of the side that fits against the saw and then stuck it under the angled bit for the dowel. That would save about 60mm over three saw holders. An idea for version 3. Keep up the ideas!

Super clever designs! I've never seen anything like that. Thanks for sharing!

We might have to start calling you "Magnet Man" lol. The laser cut speed squares you very kindly sent to me are now stained red and get used very often as I didn't previously have a speed square. I used to use my cheap set square a lot but not so often now as the speed squares are so easy to keep to hand. To that end I plan to make a holder for them on my bench. 🙂

You're the first person online I've seen who has a French cleat on the side of their workbench! I've always felt like something like that is such a powerful feature of a French cleat system that I have hardly seen before, to be able to have the tools you need just for the task at hand so easily nearby

So many clever ideas, Mark. I’m pleased I’ve found you. Keep up the good work 🌞

Great video Mark amazing ideas think the chisel holder is an amazing idea and also the double sided saw holder. Keep up the great job.

Hi mark love the chisel holder going to have a go of making one this afternoon ❤

Excellent video as always. Really innovative storage ideas. Keep up the good work.

Now that is cool. I love the new chisel rack and repurposed old one too. Very clever Mark! I am still not a fan of magnets for the reason we discussed earlier, but apart from that - awesome! If I may I would love to steal a few of your ideas. I put cut down bolts into the ends of my dowels on the saw till to increase the grip, but I love the rubber matting idea better. Back to the shop to redo them again. LOL.

Hi, Mark. A bunch of really great ideas. 👍👍👍 As I was watching you insert magnets into the wood, I remembered, sometimes the CA glue doesn't want to hold the magnets, long term (BTDT) and I have an idea. Now, to be fair, I just thought of this and have never done it. Drill your inset for the magnet, then drill, in the center, for a flat head screw, for the magnet to grip, holding itself in the hole (still use CA). Now there are two things holding the magnet in the hole. The likelihood of it coming out is greatly reduced. Notes: The larger the screw head, the better but this is also dependent on the thickness of the material, because you need a few threads, below the screw head, to hold in the wood. OH, P.S.: The extra screw length gets cut off at the back of the material. 😁✌🖖

I honestly love how excited you get with these little upgrades and ideas, it's so refreshing where a lot of people seem very negative if things arent absolute perfection 👍🏻 keep up the good work mate. Still not got round to making nice frames for the baby scans you did me ... having a baby really takes all the woodworking time away 🤣🤣

Great job Mark! That chisel holder is definitely something to be proud of!

Great video, Mark. Really loved the chisel holder and the slimline saw holder was cool, too. I'm currently away in Orkney, so had to find signal to watch this one but well worth the wait. The trouble and joy of French cleats is that the construction of one always leads to ideas for future improvements, meaning you get caught in a continuous improvement loop and don't build anything else 😂. One day I'm going to stop building tool aids and actually make something that others might use... But not just yet. Keep making.

M8 your to clever for your own good. They look amazing. Still love the laser cut boxes may need buy few them off you but the 3 hinge chisel holder wow 🤯🤯 everything is looking amazing and table saw seems be getting good work out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Hey glad you’re back 🎉. I made that Oooohhhhh noise when you opened your new chisel storage design foldy thingy 😂❤ right back to viewing.

Yet again, you show up with a great idea. Thanks for sharing :)

This is my favourite woodworking channel. I'll never use half of the stuff in your videos but I do enjoy watching and when I come up with a problem I will remember the cleats and magnets and maybe adapt. Thank you for sharing.

Hi Mark, Brilliant ideas and the best thing is your ideas are never ending and every week I watch there is some new or some thing that's modified and that's what I like this why I watch and keep watching. This French cleat system just works wonders and the way you got yours is so efficient. The Saw and chisel storage is a great idea and looks so simple to make. As always a great video, Take care👍

A genius of French cleat!

Great video and some interesting ideas that could be built upon. Many thanks and keep them coming.

I'd like to make a suggestion cover your dowels with a few.o rings. I do this to my 3D printed versions. Make them. very grippy. I'm lucky I have a selection box. of O rings. but they don't cost a lot. And always useful to have.

All are a great use of space. The chisel one ingenious

another brill video mark 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Love you’re creativity man!!

Love that chisel holder - ingenious! Although I am sad that I can’t have a French cleat wall, sadly conservatory windows are no good for storage 😢haha

Ery smart ideas you have there. Thanks for sharing

The saw holder, make the 22 deg holder the width of the dowel. That'd save you much more space, probably enough to have to add space for handles.

You, Sir, are a GENIUS! I absolutely love these ideas!

The clear front on the chisel holder is the real trick. I might not even bother with the magnets.

These are excellent ideas, thanks.

I do like your double hinged chisel holder Mark. I may have to "borrow" your idea for my forstner bit holder I was about to build🤔

You don't need the full length of the "ramp" for the "key" to run on. So you could easily have the ramps be 2/3rd to half the length and then go vertical on the rear side of the next vertical. So then you are only really stuck by the width of your handles.

Groovy! Excellent demo of how useful cleats are. Alas, my garage workshop is a bit of a shambles at the mo' as I'm in the middle of a workshop renovation. I've had a French cleat wall for around 6 years, but have not made full use of it yet. I've been using those magnetic doofers from Parkside. Really handy for drill bits, as they are always within reach. The saw holder is an excellent idea. I think I'll be copying that one. Thanks for sharing. Btw, where do you get your rare earth magnets? They are not cheap, but you seem to be scattering them around like confetti.

Thanks!

You might find it easier to use heat shrink instead of silicone on the dowels, as it's somewhat almost all of us have on hand.

Another very useful video Mark. I'm not a French cleat user, but your hinged chisel holder is ingenious. I might keep it French cleated to my bench so that all chisels, marking instruments, sanding sticks, etc. were right at hand when needed. I like how you maximize the use of your wall space with the French cleats & your other owner-made accessories. Do you plan to have a lumber storage system using French cleats in the future? If you so choose, you could probably author a book titled, "How to Organize Your Workshop with French Cleats." I don't recall seeing your workbench video, but I'll find it to view.

Ok, just watched your video. Very clever. I’m in the mist of doing shop reorganization. My question to your dowels holding the items in; How do you get them out without fighting the job the dowel does, which is keeping the item in place. I was hoping to see you remove one item to show how you overcome that problem. Thank you for the close caption, I am hearing impaired and they really help me. Side note; I really like your French cleat builds. You take the mystery out of them by doing detailed builds on them.

Brilliant mate 👍

Too good of an idea to pass! I wouldn't rush to admit chisels would dull from contact with wood bottom though. It's the only job these are supposed to be good for 😂

Great idea for the chisel till, love how it folds out! Haven't sold me on the 90 degree saw till though, any space you've saved side to side still needs to be bare so you can get the saws at the back in and out. Bit more of a faff getting them in and out that way compared to the old one too.

Grab a label maker and add labels. Labels save me a lot of time on putting things back where they belong :)

Some good ideas there rkid 👍👍

Mark, that chisel holder is too cool. Recently, I saw a "saw caddy," being sold commercially. I'm thinking of tackling that project. I like yours too, now, I'm in a conundrum. Another brilliant video. One request, since we've missed it so far this year; we need the rugby jersey for old times sake. A small point, you're using a lot of CA glue, just be careful that you rely on it too much because over time CA becomes brittle and is not really very good for structural parts. In conjunction with wood glue you're golden (noted that you did that in these projects, just a quick reminder). Be careful, you're going to become too efficient. Cheers!

Hi! Thank you for your video. It is great. But… …if you are using magnets anyway so extensively, why not using them on your saws, too? They give you a much smaller footprint. And if you want to stick to a friction based grip for the saws, try using your dowel based mechanism upside down with two levers instead of the dowel/ramp solution. Think of your hands when praying. Put some rubber mat where your finger tips are and an axis each where your wrists are. To connect the levers with the axis you can use eyebolts to make it an easy build. You can use two layers/rows of this mechanism above each other with an offset to make the footprint even smaller (so one saw gets stored in the lower rack and the next one in the upper rack and the next one again in the lower rack and so one - if you get my picture). Still I‘d prefere the magnet solution, though… If you use magnets to hold/store a tool, rather use the rubber mat to cover the magnet instead of the felt. Usually the tools are made of harder metal than the magnets so they would rather scratch the magnet than vice-versa. But if you still feel the urge to protect the tools from the magnets then keep in mind that the strength of the magnet decreases exponentially (!) with the distance. Also magnets are strongest when the metal objects are pulled away from them. They are much weaker when you slide the objects to the side (So: Provided that the contact surface is the same, it would be much harder for you to pull down the metallic object from a magnet above than from a magnet to its side. But the saw being so thin makes it much more effective to hold it with a magnet to its side that to its top.) So rather use the stickiness of the rubber mat than the smoothness of the felt to compensate for the los of magnetic force due to the further distance that you need to have some space/rubber/felt between magnet and the tool. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭

Great video

0:48 Oooh!

I think you'll find your cleat locking blocks working out and falling on the floor over time. Every time you take a tool out the clear will move a bit and wiggle them out.

That looks great, I wonder if I could make one for my lathe chisels?

I am sure you said this prev but I am new. Like your assemble shop bench doesn’t feel finished. Gaps at corners. Maybe for a reason. Idk. But I still like it as many will even if they don’t know why.

good tips

The problem you had with the screws in the chisel holder wasn't strictly due to the impact driver (although that didn't help. You probably should have used flat head screws, not bugle head

Great video mark, who doesn’t love a french cleat wall ❤️, where do you get magnets strips from?

convinced me. I liked & sub'd

You could have made him even tighter if you moved the grip point on the 22° angle higher make it on the top it only has to move a millimeter

For your chisels box you should have made it clear on the other side too so you can see which to pick out when open

Time for you to see the final word in tool walls. Ed Stiles here on KZfaq. Two videos. Ten years old now. It will blow your mind.

The chisel holder revision is a positively elegant solution! The "sneak peek" You did at the beginning almost made me jump ahead to that section. It was the equivalent of looking for the thumbnail shot on porn! Lol Brilliant video! Cheers.

Hi Mark. Glad you done this one as I have the same saw holder and need to remake it so great food for thought here. I'm thinking of making the vertical and angled pieces out of the same piece of wood I e. Cut one side of the wood at the 22.5 degree angle. Hopefully this will also save space. Regarding the chisels, would it not make sense to turn around the middle layer so that the clear window is showing forward when opened up? Other than that, I guess I have something new to build next weekend 😂 I think I'll make the chisel holder for 8 videos rather than 9 and then the handles will be offset to each other

What ply do you use for the cleats? As I know all plywood is not made equal. It has to be fairly robust.

super video! I think you need some real rare earth magnets. The 3/8 ones hold an chisel no problem. I only know where to buy them in Canada at "lee Valley" The best tool store ever. Not sure what it would cost to ship them bu you would love em. FYI the rare earth magnets from amazon etc are garbage, They're merely coated.

How about using heat shrink tubing instead of that tubing? It will be even smaller?

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Why not turn the saws vertical so you use the space above the cleat wall?

Love the videos but not a fan of the purple lighting. It makes everything seem really soft.

just wondering if you know what “exponentially” means?

Are you not h&ll of clever? Yes, you are.

I am not a fan of the French so I don't want any of their cleats.