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Cordless drill holder
Having spent almost six years chasing my cordless drills around the top of my workbench, moving them from one end to the other as I needed space to work on projects, I finally decided it was time to build something to give them a home out of the way.
Construction is dovetailed white oak. The shelf holding the batteries is three offcuts, and simply rests in dadoes, and is screwed in from outside the carcasse. The shelf holding the drills is shop-made plywood of 3 layers of ¼ inch white oak, as making a similar slotted shelf with regular oak led to the fingers between drills snapping off before I could even finish assembling the case (and gave me some of the offcuts) for the battery shelf.
Finish is a couple coats of 50-50 tung oil and citrus oil.
With it all assembled, I realized I should have made it one shelf taller in order to have room for the battery chargers, but they’re currently across the shop where I have an open outlet.
Construction is dovetailed white oak. The shelf holding the batteries is three offcuts, and simply rests in dadoes, and is screwed in from outside the carcasse. The shelf holding the drills is shop-made plywood of 3 layers of ¼ inch white oak, as making a similar slotted shelf with regular oak led to the fingers between drills snapping off before I could even finish assembling the case (and gave me some of the offcuts) for the battery shelf.
Finish is a couple coats of 50-50 tung oil and citrus oil.
With it all assembled, I realized I should have made it one shelf taller in order to have room for the battery chargers, but they’re currently across the shop where I have an open outlet.
May you have the day you deserve!
15 Comments
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Ron
Nice job Dave!
Looks good! I lazed out and put up a peg board with the wire hangers for a lot of my equipment.
The Other Steven
Solid build Dave!
Good to see you haven't been cross-pollinating your motor choices, makes the charger/battery array smaller.
Good to see you haven't been cross-pollinating your motor choices, makes the charger/battery array smaller.
Great build Dave, nice and neat solution for drills on the bench.
I was going to ask where you got the unusual plywood until I saw the last picture. I really should do something to better organize my drills batteries and chargers.
--Nathan, TX. Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.
That station is one of the first projects I got from being on LJ.
Really good solution.
Nice work Dave
Really good solution.
Nice work Dave
Petey
looks like problem solved !
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
I built a drill/driver holder similarly - with the tools ready to grab-n-go. It's hard to beat. Nice job.
Thanks, folks!
Regarding the “unusual plywood,” it isn’t cheap, but I routinely buy “project ready” micro-lumber from Ocooch Hardwoods in Wisconsin. I have a stack of ¼ inch thick boards in widths from 4 inches to 8 inches, and another stack of ⅜ inch thick boards. I think my current stock is poplar, ash, white oak (both rift-sawn and quartersawn), and walnut, plus some ⅛ inch bubinga and sapele for specialty use. I first made my own plywood in my boring tools till before we moved to New Mexico, and that’s stood up great over the years. One time I did the math on what my special plywood costs per bf, but the answer just depressed me, and I never thought about it again.
But if you can reliably resaw lumber (which I also do quite a bit of, along with milling juniper into small boards), making your own plywood isn’t too bad expense-wise, and you can get some nice effects.
Regarding the “unusual plywood,” it isn’t cheap, but I routinely buy “project ready” micro-lumber from Ocooch Hardwoods in Wisconsin. I have a stack of ¼ inch thick boards in widths from 4 inches to 8 inches, and another stack of ⅜ inch thick boards. I think my current stock is poplar, ash, white oak (both rift-sawn and quartersawn), and walnut, plus some ⅛ inch bubinga and sapele for specialty use. I first made my own plywood in my boring tools till before we moved to New Mexico, and that’s stood up great over the years. One time I did the math on what my special plywood costs per bf, but the answer just depressed me, and I never thought about it again.
But if you can reliably resaw lumber (which I also do quite a bit of, along with milling juniper into small boards), making your own plywood isn’t too bad expense-wise, and you can get some nice effects.
May you have the day you deserve!
Nice storage solution, Dave. You have more Irwin clamps than I do!!!!
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Nicely done. Glad to see someone else also enjoys maxing out how many clamps can be used on a glueup. 😉
Thanks!
Jim, that’s not the half of them. I only emptied one clamp rack. ;-)
Barb, I kept putting on clamps until adding a new clamp didn’t get me any additional glue squeezing out. I thought I was going to need to add some of the deep throat metal C-clamps, but didn’t need those in the end.
Jim, that’s not the half of them. I only emptied one clamp rack. ;-)
Barb, I kept putting on clamps until adding a new clamp didn’t get me any additional glue squeezing out. I thought I was going to need to add some of the deep throat metal C-clamps, but didn’t need those in the end.
May you have the day you deserve!
Thanks, Jan!
May you have the day you deserve!
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