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I have watched hours of French cleat videos now and have gleaned a few ideas. Your video, however, has presented me with better, more practical ideas than all the hours before. You have a new fan.

@EveningWoodworker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that!

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sliding key is absolutely genius....

The sliding key - an excellent idea there.

The saw holder is the best. I have a bunch of large commercially made holders that use the same principal for my rakes, shovels, brooms, etc. Each row of 5 holders can handle a huge amount of weight. I will be making your version for my saws and maybe other tools too. Thanks.

Those locks are a great idea - thanks

Very innovative.

It's always nice to see a different take on French cleats! Keep innovating!

The saw holder was the only thing that baffled me. Not anymore! Thanks so much!

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Now you know the secrets!

Thank you for another great video, Matt Damon! You are a truly talented man.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!... and yes I'll take all of the paychecks for Matt Damon too

Just installed French cleats in my workshop and I’ve been trying to figure the best way to hold my pull saws, and I think you’re idea is ingenious. Thanks for the video.

The saw holder is brilliant! And I plan on making a modified version on your paper towel holder for storing wrapping paper rolls in my craft room! I don't particularly like storing rolls of tape and twine all together that way, it can be a hassle to get to the ones in the middle if you have a lot of different kinds, but I do like the simplicity of the holder for other things.

Great ideas -

Your French cleat designs are very nice. Simple, functional.

Really nice mate . Watched again !

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Every view counts!

Excellent video!

Very cool ideas - especially the saw till

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great vid! Def inspired me

That sliding key idea is beautiful and simple

The slide in locking key is Genius.

Saw holder engineering is genius

Love your content! Thanks for the video

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Great video Matt!!! Thanks for so many ingenious ideas!!!

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The saw Holder is brilliant it also works well with marbles

Each of these is just different enough from others for me to say" ah, now that I can use it!" This a great example of creativity at its best!

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that!

Thanks for the great ideas!

Great job! I like the saw-holding one the most! Cool trick!

The saw holder is genius!

Awesome holders - some of these I've never seen anyone do like you did, impressive and thanks!

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's fun to come up with new designs!

That saw holder is genius!

I love the saw tool holder! I'm going to steal that. I'm also going to copy your chisel rack.

The saw hanger is the best!!!

You my friend are super talented. Great tips and tricks on making these holders

Thanks for the bright cleat caddy ideas

Thank you for all the detail as to “how to” very helpful

While eating breakfast I saw you video and i congratulate you on a presentation that has very nice consequences and is not just cute. While I don't have a cleat wall you ideas will easily accommodate by needs and I thank you

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it

Saw holder is perfect! Great idea. Also the locking methods, I must try those. Thanks

That saw holder has got to be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen😎💯

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's pretty sweet!

Good variety of handing solutions. I like the saw grip build but I hang them backwards so you don't keep gouging the holder. For extra grip a racing bike inner tube or srink tube around the dowel.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea! I just figured I'd replace the front or build a new one once it gets too trashed.

Nice i have diy m’y wall with plywood. The next week, i making cleat en after making , saw rack- Hammer rack and glue rack

Nice! I've had nowhere to hang my carpenter saws or hack saws until now! Thanks!!!

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck! It's not too hard and it works well!

I am currently remodeling a large shed into a woodshop and fell in love with french cleat designs but had no idea where to even start. This video was so incredibly helpful, so thank you! I genuinely feel like all of these "brackets" are beginner friendly builds and theyre super clever!

@EveningWoodworker

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad it helped... good luck!

Saw holder idea was awesome!

Wonderful vid. No BSing. You got to the point quickly. You got my sub.

Love your locking features - Such a simple solution.

I enjoy how your videos move along, no wasted time or over-explaining. The content is interesting and relevant. Thank you.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's my goal!

They're nice looking and you have something clever ideas. I especially like the saw rack.

@EveningWoodworker

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Too Smart. Nice idea!

Ok….now I need to build a French clear wall. I really enjoy your videos. Appreciate how you share your ideas.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you like it

Very smart ideas! Thank you for the video 👍🏽

Excellent idea.

A very nice build as usual! Thanks!

Thanks for the ideas. The saw holder is brilliant!

Brilliant! Love it.

This is a great video with wonderful tool holder ideas! Thank you for making the video and sharing it.

Some really creative and inspiring ideas that are nicely implemented. And nice video, too. Thanks and well done!

Absolutely awesome 👏🏼

That saw holder is genius! Simple but super effective!

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You used french cleats in a great way. You inspired me to put some in my shop. Thank you.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

They're pretty handy!

I just made a custom rack for nail polish which is what got me to your channel. This level of organization is so satisfying. Thanks for sharing, will definitely be returning to this video for inspiration!

Nicely done... bravo! Enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.

I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. I especially like the saw holder.

Excellent!!!

Inspirational, thank you!

Very practical solutions!

Some great ideas here!

Nice organize tools. Thank you for video.

Nice

Great ideas here. Thanks.

Awesome saw holder idea, thank you for sharing this with us from Henrico County Virginia

Super cool video! It’s like you heard me when I said, “Yes please!”. Thanks for this one I love all of these. I’m going to make a tape one that has more of a boxed front with an old hacksaw blade attached to the front edge for tearing the tape off.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good innovation! I find I usually just pull the tape off and take it to wherever I'm working, but maybe the next french cleat video will have an update to the tape rack!

@danham3344

2 жыл бұрын

@@EveningWoodworker 🤣 I'm sure yours works great just as is. I just have a station in my shop where I use duct tape often. Again, fantastic video. Thanks

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@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

고맙습니다

With a very small shop space, I'm always looking for easy ways to place modular tool groups. I may just remove some pegboard and replace it with french cleats. Thank you for sharing your nice, but fairly easy to fab tool access wall. I love how these groups can be rearranged, excellent system!

@EveningWoodworker

7 ай бұрын

It's addicting... once you build some and see how well it works you may just want to do more!

love the dowel saw holder..fantastic

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you like it

Great timing that I just saw this video! I just finished 2 walls full of French Cleats in my garage. Now the fun begins! I'm excited to steal your idea for the saw rack! Thanks for sharing!

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Let your imagination run wild!

A couple of months away from house renovations, garage/workshop is being upgraded to French cleat walls, as well as overflow pantry storage under the staircase

Very clever saw holder

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm still amazed at how effective it is.

Oh you know what we like. This is the stuff. Thank you for going into detail. I think many cleat/holder videos do not cover the thickness of cleats or leave out a side view of a holder so you aren't able to see how they put it together. All of your holders are nice and clean and well thought out. I love a good pliers holder too. Tip down recesses with a thin laminated front and back is good for 2-4 pliers or the rack version with a dowel to hang them tip it. Tip down again with rectangle grid is fun. Just a long box for general hand tools is always welcome too. I keep two pliers in my hip pouch but find pliers to be the tool I reach for as much as screwdrivers. Hammer holder is another one where I"m attached to the type that is just a open notch with the handles hanging down and available to grab and lift out. Like your basic chisel/clamp rack with the hammer heads lined up to fit 4 or more on one board. Can glue on little nibs to keep them in there or sand in the bevel to sink in to get them to stay.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Great ideas on the hammer holder! If this one doesn't work out then I may try your design.

FANTATIC IDEA! I have just finished making your saw holder for my workshop. For year I have used screws as hook, or if I and feeling fancy magnets. Your holder has saved me valuable wall space and I have used some of the space slots to hold my addustable squares. THANKS YOU for posting this vidoe, you have just found yourself another subscriber.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped! It definitely helps to save space.

Excellent ideas Matt! You appeared on a suggested video pop up. I love French cleats, they’re so easy to rearrange items as needed. I used French cleats to hang a multitude of cabinets I picked up on the cheap. I see another benefit to having chisels hanging in the method you chose, the edges will stay sharper longer I believe. .

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure who Matt is, but yes they're super useful!

@elained9591

2 жыл бұрын

@@EveningWoodworker Jared, I am so sorry but still laughing. Matt is Jared’s cousin, but not your cousin. Maybe you do have a Matt who’s related, I don’t know. But Matt and Jared are couple of young men who help me out when I need to run the sawmill and apparently he was on my mind. That’s my excuse and yes, I’m sticking to it! 😂

Thanks for all of the very ingenious ideas. Your engineer's mind with your woodworking creativity and skill is appreciated very much. Keep these French cleat ideas coming :)

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Now I gotta go make some more

@mikeandlucky

2 жыл бұрын

@@EveningWoodworker I made the saw holder and it works great! Amazing creativity. I also made the sanding disc holder and the tape holder. Thanks again!

The design for the saw till is rockin'! I've seen that mechanism used before but I think you may have really nailed the simplicity. I also like the very simple low-tech stops to keep the racks stable on the cleats. May I suggest a clamp rack for next time?

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah a clamp rack is not a bad idea for the next set of holders!

Am I the only one that pictured Homer Simpson going "Dowel goes up, dowel goes down, dowel goes up, dowel goes down." 🤣😂🤣

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Ol' Homer has set the bar pretty low for the rest of us.

I enjoy your simple explanations and creativity. Thanks for sharing. I like the shirt, would be good for the shop if it had a v-neck (And could get purple). Can't wear the closed collar.

The saw holder is absolutely brilliant! I'm definitely copying that idea! I didn't like the solutions for the tape holder or the hammers. I don't want to go through al tapes to get to the roll I want, so individual pegs is a much better solution. The hammers are not secured from rotating and falling through, and are not that easy to take out and put back. A better solution is to use a row of individual blocks of wood and make a hole or slot or saddle that fits the face of the individual hammer, so you only put the hammer head towards the wall, in a custom hole, leaving the shaft angled away from the wall to be easier to grab. For most hammer heads, a magnet is a good way to secure it from accidentally falling off.

@EveningWoodworker

4 ай бұрын

I'm learning what you mentioned over time with the tape holder, although the paper towel part of it is great! For the hammer one, this way keeps them stored more compactly, so it works well if space is tight. Glad you like the saw holder!

Great video, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t seen some of these designs before - they’re really neat! Do you have rough sizes on the saw holder? I’m inspired to build one! 🙏🏼

I have used the French Cleat system in a few of my shops and I have always hated them for four reasons. 1) they collect dust. 2) they collect spiders with webs. 3) the tool shelves would always come down when trying to retrieve a tool. 4) they take up so much wall space for only a small amount of tools. Now with that said, I believe that you have solved the tool shelf locking mechanism. And very brillantly I might add. I also know that someone might fill the whole French Cleat system with craddies of tools and that could solve another issue. But until the spider issue gets solved, I think I will stick to the drawers. But anyway, great job.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

I think my favorite is a combination of some drawers and some French cleats. Also a good pest control company is helpful!

"Sorry, all I had was super ply baltic birch just lying around" Hahaha. I'm jealous.

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Haha! If only I had more of it!

Exceptionally well thought out. Nicely done, my friend. If you’re feeling generous with any scrap of scrap I could handle having an upgrade to my stock

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! I'll let you know

"Honey, we're gonna need a lot more dowels." - me, probably.

This is really good. I'll copy some of your ideas! I have a rafter square like yours (5:12), but it hangs perfectly balanced from the hole, so I'll probably just bang a nail into a suitable place rather than making a rack for it.

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like they have located the hole better on the newer squares. I'm glad this gave you some ideas!

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Your saw holder is great, what is the thickness, hight and width of the individual holders?

Great video, lots of idea percolating in the bean now. I really liked your "Screw it" shirt but couldn't find them on your website.

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up on my website! Try it now www.eveningwoodworker.com/merch

So something I've found is that for me it's important everything can be removed from the front without taking up vertical space. Maybe my wall is just overcrowded but I'm not sure you're going to love that hammer rack, because you can't put anything right above it. Many of my first holders had this issue and I had to replace them :) I'm definitely copying your chisel rack though !

@EveningWoodworker

2 жыл бұрын

That's good insight! I may have to do another version once I use these for awhile and decide what I like and don't like.

You mate are well equipped. Being totally unplugged some brilliant features you made are far from my reach . Bravo nonetheless!

You're showing some great ideas here and I especially love that saw holder! I'm quite tempted to swap my shelves out for a French Cleat system, but I'm just not sure how much cleat space I'll need to have the same amount of useable space as in the shelves. Also, I'm trying to figure out how wide the cleats on the holders should be. I think I'll be making the cleats on the wall just under 3" - 75 mm - and the spaces between just under 5" - 125 mm - but none of the many videos I've watched so far mentions the width of the cleats on the holders. Would you say just under 1 1/5" - 35 mm - should be enough?

@EveningWoodworker

Жыл бұрын

My cleats are made from ripping a 5" piece in half with a 3" spacing in between each rail. You could space them apart more, but I wanted a bit more flexibility to locate my holders. The holder rails don't need to be big, but it's easy to just use the same size you already cut for the rails.

Hey! Can you please tell me the dimensions of your cleat wall? Like how many inches you did? And what is the space between each? Also is it 1/2 or 3/4 in plywood?