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.