French Cleat Peg Rack

I’ve always had a problem finding places to store long, thin items (yardstick, drill press fence, crosscut sled inserts, etc.). I used to store them on top of other things (my crosscut sled, the top of my French cleats, or any other long, flat surface), where they’d invariably get in the way when I needed to use those things.

I built this peg rack to help solve that problem. It’s nice and compact (just over 15” wide) but has three tiers of peg holes, giving me almost four feet of linear storage. The peg holes are spaced 1” apart to make it easier to accommodate items of various widths and are tilted up five degrees to keep items from slipping off. So far, I’m using only two of the three tiers, so I have plenty of room for growth.

As usual, I placed the SketchUp model in 3D Warehouse.

The project was very simple, so I’ll just outline a few construction steps.

The hardest step was drilling the angled peg holes. I didn’t feel like tilting the table on my drill press (and having to re-level it afterward), so I started by clamping a piece of scrap to serve as a fence.

I created a temporary tilted surface by putting a narrow piece of scrap under a wider piece.

Then I just drilled the holes.

I didn’t want any visible fasteners on the completed rack, so I used 1” screws through the backs of the middle and rear peg blocks to keep the parts aligned while I glued and clamped the parts.

Thanks for looking!