Hello I'm Simon Welcome to my workshop, in this video I'm going to be creating some storage
for these self gripping wrenches that I call mole grips. Let's get tinkering.
I don't use my grips very often but they are taking up a lot of valuable space, so i need
to design something that will take up a lot less room,
This is going to be a shelf with holes in to hold the grips which will be compatible
with pegboard. I start by cutting some pine board to length on the band saw.
Then using the fence on my pillar drill table to ensure all the holes line up I drill 20mm
holes along its length.
A couple of the grips have slightly larger handles so I expand the holes at each end
to 25mm diameter.
I should have cut the holes from both sides to avoid blow out, but this is the point of
these shop projects, better o make mistakes and learn on these than something more important.
Anyway I decide to use my newly restored hand plane to plane out the blowout and put a chamfer
on the bottom to make teh shelf look thinner - again this is the time to experiment and
hone skills.
Using the wood vice like this wasn't very wise, next time I use my planes I'll make
a bench hook.
It was quite nice planing the wood, very quiet compare to the bench sander, and quite therapeutic
working the wood by hand.
Then I thought, what the hell, I'll use my newly restored spokeshaves to round over the
edge!
I then modified a couple of pegboard hooks - I would have made these from coat-hanger
wire , if I didn't have so make of these hooks!..
I then used a sharpened coffee stirrer to apply some CA glue to the holes.
and fitted the peg board hooks - successfully avoiding gluing my fingers to the wood! and
applied a little accelerant so that the glue would set instantly.
The pegboard hooks alone will not be enough to hole the shelf square when fully loaded,
it needed some additional supports, so I cut these out of the off-cut I had left using
the band saw.
These supports slightly fouled the larger holes I'd drilled so I sanded a curve into
each. before gluing then to the main shelf.
Here is a close up of the underside showing the planed surface and the sanded curve in
the supports.
The shelf clips in nicely and feels really firm, given it is fixed in peg board.
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