Improved CORDLESS TOOL Holders | I Address My Own Mistakes | There Were Quite a Few

hey guys welcome back to my shop my name is chris thank you for joining me today i'm going to give you a glimpse inside my thought process on when a success actually is a failure meaning i made a tool holder for this and i loved it after using it a few times i hated it so yes it was functional but i absolutely hated how it worked and we're gonna fix that plus we're gonna make a tool holder for this jigsaw not my favorite tool but the holder for that may be the favorite one i've done to date so join me and let's get right into this build [Music] explain why this is not a good design one i mean it looks like it but it's not one i have to actually do a few things lift and lift and then it might even come off the wall to get it out that's not good secondly when you use this saw typically it's in the position where the blade is coming down from the actual table or the uh whatever you call this anyway yeah so then to put it back you have to well let me extend that back out close it and then i'm going to put it back and it's going to fit not really because i have to lift the guard up too many steps a tool holder should be let me grab it and be done and then when i'm done with it let me just put it back and i'm done that's the way it should be not like this this is a mistake and i did a whole video on this thing anyway i'll link it down below if you want to see it so we're going to make a jigsaw tool holder that is well i've already made it but it's my favorite one to date and uh turned out nice so let's go ready so the project begins where most projects do here at the table saw with the crosscut sled ready to go i'm going to cut this piece down of baltic birch that's three quarters of an inch in thickness down to some various sizes i've also got a piece here of half inch or actually i believe this is 3 8 of an inch and we're going to cut these down based upon the measurements i got from my tool now every tool is different every manufacturer makes things a little bit differently so i'm not going to have plans available however i do suggest you just using your tool and following your notes to make whatever fits you best so back here at the workbench we're going to take these two pieces we're going to join them together with some regular glue and some ca glue together this combination is pretty nice it doesn't require any type of mechanical fasteners however use a little activator on the edges with the ca glue and you've got yourself a really tight bond that's going to well act as clamps until that wood glue dries back to the table saw we're going to cut down some small strips that are going to go on the faces of these pieces that we just made i guess these are large rabbits now to join these in place i'm just going to use some ca glue and activator no need for the wood glue because i want these to be actually reinforced with some screws reason being these small little pieces here although they are little they're going to hold most of the load that the tool is going to impart on this tool holder so to do this we're going to go ahead and pre-drill two holes on either side of both of these pieces and then i'm going to countersink them as well just taking all those precautionary measures just to make sure the wood is taken care of we don't want any fraying we don't want any splitting especially when drilling into the edge of a piece of plywood that's that thin i'm going to use these kind of low profile countersunk screws and that's all we're going to do that's all the mechanical fastening we're going to need for those pieces right there again i like to reinforce that with screws because like i said before it's going to take most of the load so i want to introduce you to this new system from rockler now bench cookies are nothing new but this way of doing it called the bench cookie connect is pretty darn cool they have the same surface area as your standard bench cookie however they're in the shape of quarter pies check that out and they all join together to form a large surface and then they can separate out to form those smaller bench cookies that you're accustomed to or at least the size you are and that's pretty darn cool so they're linked below as well all right moving forward we're going to take the same trick with the ca glue and the regular glue and we're going to attach these pieces that we've made to a small little piece that i've cut on the table saw off camera you're going to see here it's going to kind of make a u-shape and we are going to reinforce this again but again i really like this ca glue wood glue technique definitely a pretty cool way to do things but actually truth be told i'm going to go ahead and reinforce that with something so we're going to go ahead and shoot some brad nails in there add a little bit of an angle on each one just to give it that little more strength that you want and there you go that's kind of where we're going at this point i'm going to take the backer board and then i'm going to cut down some french cleat material to you know hang it on the wall that's the idea now you don't have to do french cleats i can't believe i'm saying that but they are pretty ubiquitous around the woodworking scene and they're hugely popular in my shop so i've got a ton of videos on them and you can check my channel i've got a whole bunch there if you uh i definitely encourage you to go check those out so also we're going to hand sand some of these pieces just to keep all the splinters away you never know who's going to be holding this stuff plus makes things nice as well and this is going to be something i'm going to do over and over again in my shop i'm not going to use any glue on that bottom support piece i used to but now i don't because just in case i need to take it off for some reason all i have is a couple brad nails in there and i'm good to go with the backer board ready to go with the cleat installed in the back it's now time to turn our attention to installing the tool holder in place and again i'm just using ca glue and wood glue again placing everything down using a little bit of activator on the sides that activates the ca glue holds it in place and then for a little extra security again i'm going to turn it over and add a few screws as well so with everything ready to go it's now time to install a little bit of paste wax into the channels that we made on either side of this tool holder now the reason being is i don't want any friction well there's going to be some of course but i want to limit the friction that is used when putting the tool holder in place that way you can lift it out with ease you're going to see maybe i didn't quite add enough paste wax because this is real real life ladies and gentlemen the first time i'm testing it out looks like it's working pretty well i like to do things on camera the first time just in case something like this happens believe that well i realized at that point i need to make a locking mechanism for it so i've trimmed down this little piece of baltic birch and i'm going to install this on the side this is going to be kind of like a lever arm that's going to be really installed with i guess just a screw and it's gonna be able to swing back and forth allowing the cleat to stay in place when you're lifting the saw out you get it i made a mistake luckily no damage incurred but hey it happened and here we go round two gonna go ahead and tighten this bad boy up and it looks like it works pretty well now i do want to point out there's two stopping mechanisms on this not only is the bottom created to stop it however if the bottom wasn't there it would have stopped on that little piece of aluminum that sticks out as well now it's sticking out from the wall a lot because you can actually have the blade engaged and not have to worry about the blade ever touching the wall check that out pretty cool design in my opinion let me know what you guys think down below but now it's time to remake that circular saw holder too [Music] okay so we're gonna remake this holder with a bunch of scraps uh i would have used a whole piece of baltic birch and then just kind of cut this thing out maybe with a couple forstner bits and then in between it with a jigsaw but i figured why not try to join two pieces together with pocket holes and then cut that little recess out with the bandsaw as it turns out this is a pretty good idea um but i'm gonna leave a mistake in here a pretty big one and it involves one of those pocket holes and um oh that's pretty funny looks like a whale shark to me anyway we're going to route this out again using those bench cookie connects from rockwell they're pretty darn cool this is just going to give me a little bit more room inside that canal or inside that channel to have the circular saw sit so talking about mistakes you ready for this after i clean up here i'm going to show you what i'm talking about but first off you know i like to kind of sweep everything up into a trash can that has what in the world is that oh my goodness and more on that later all right here it goes guys ready whoa did you see that i ran that pocket hole screw right into the saw blade now this saw stop has a new cartridge in it it works as you know well i showed you a video about that how i ran into some graphite on a pencil and it triggered the stop this screw was stainless steel and it didn't trigger it i guess it's not you know part of the material list that will trigger this thing but it scared me quite a bit um i fixed the problem off camera i put in another small pan head pocket hole screw kind of thing in there and i was just kind of embarrassed but i figured you know what let's leave that in this video and i'm glad i did so i wanted to share that with you guys if you have one of these saws guess what stainless steel is not going to do too much except maybe dull in your blade a little bit anyway back to the project all right hold that thought for a second stainless steel will trigger this break however it has to be close to a conductive material example your finger or a hot dog you get it right so don't take what i said earlier about stainless steel won't trip this because it will it just has to be close to your body anyway and my hands were pretty free and clear from that and that's why it didn't trip i ended up asking my local uh woodcraft manager about this and we had a conversation about it and i learned a lot from that as well all right so here we go building it up we're going to go ahead and well as you saw me i trimmed it up for a little bit and i'm just kind of making a frame around it with a protruding edge to keep the circular saw table or the circular saw base in place i'm going to go ahead and take some marks here and i'm going to you know what my crosscut sled is really serves me a lot of use however i'm going to use this new angle miter gauge from rocker here and it's not going to totally replace my crosscut sled but i don't have a miter saw station and having this thing here allowing me to adjust these fences and then get exactly a 45 as i need them pretty quickly is pretty invaluable so i'm gonna link this down below as well this is a quick and easy little thing to install and it's come in handy on this project and i can see it coming in handy on a lot more projects as well so check the link below check out this little thing as you can see it made quick work of the 45-degree angle pieces that i needed and now we're just going to install these with some ca glue of course i'm gonna come back from the front side install it with screws as well and this is really honestly i'm gonna tell you guys ca glue is probably you've heard me say a hundred times one of the more versatile tools in my shop and of course i do have a coupon code you've heard me say that in many videos before but if you haven't taken advantage go ahead and go down in the description starbond.com say 15 with glimpse 15 and you can see here i use it a lot and it does help my workflow tremendously so check it out all right so here we go we're going to just install this with four screws that's all we're going to need and i think this is coming together pretty nicely [Music] all right one last cross cut for this piece and actually i like to sneak up on these just barely taking off like a micro inch at a time is that even a unit of measurement i think it is anyway it works so we're gonna go ahead and tap it in place i'm not gonna worry about putting any glue in this joint whatsoever because i'm just going to use screws here but first we're going to go ahead and squeeze into place with a squeeze clamp and then drive home a few screws as well this is the backer board that the cleat is going to rest on so we can attach it up on the tool wall now it's time to actually cut the cleat down to the width we need or the length rather and then we're going to cut it to the width that we're looking for because i don't necessarily need this big of a cleat up there so i'm going to use some of it to actually make the support piece that's going to go on the bottom attaching it with some glue and brads pretty much all you're going to need and like i said before the bottom part no glue whatsoever just a few brads to hold it in place so now it's time to test the fit and would you look at this it doesn't fit of course it doesn't you know why because we're woodworkers and this is what happens and especially the ones that don't make plans for things like myself so we're going to just draw a quick little semi-circle cut it out here with the jigsaw fitting that we're using the tool that we made the holder for the previous clip and i think with a good solid sanding we should be in good shape and yeah there you go sometimes the solution is just that easy all right now it's time to load them up to the tool wall pretty simple process here we're going to lock this one in place we don't want that thing falling off the wall any more than it already has the jigsaw and the circular saw and i'm gonna tell you guys something i really appreciate you guys watching i really appreciate you guys being here but the fact of the matter is is this is one of my favorite processes of being a maker is finding a tool finding anything for that matter and then using it to come up with measurements and various different techniques to make your workflow just that much better really cool process and i want to thank baltic birch for this for making this process easy for me because it's a readily available material and it's pretty strong pretty straightforward love it well thank you so much for joining me for this project guys this is one of those projects that i've been meaning to do for a long time i didn't like the old setup it was always kind of cumbersome however yes it did do the job it did keep it up out of the way it was organized but it wasn't made properly anyway i hope you enjoyed this one and also i want you to recognize this as well uh in the video where i made the poorly made circular saw holder i made this too and it's great it gets them up out of the way however i've been snagged by a couple of bits here there in the shoulders walking by it's pretty dangerous quite frankly i i didn't see that coming but yeah i've got to change this too so that's coming up in the future as well thank you again for joining me guys ben my name is chris and i appreciate each and every one of you being here leave a comment down below let me know what you think and also if you're on instagram follow me there and if you have a better idea or a different idea for your tool holders tag me in the post i'd love to see it take care guys have a great day until then get out there and make life better let's go [Music] you

Channel: A Glimpse Inside

Views: 44,477

Rating: 4.9412026 out of 5

Keywords: French cleat, Frenchcleat, Woodworking

Id: Oa-Cc2F-Y8Q

Length: 16min 5sec (965 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 15 2020