Clamp Wall

I spent the morning installing the last 16 of almost one hundred recessed lights in the River House and am happy to have that rather tedious task in the rearview mirror. In the afternoon I turned my attention to shop organization. Few items get more use in my woodworking than clamps. It is said that you can never have enough but I would add that they also need to be close at hand and quick to deploy. My solution for this, based on my experience with two prior shops is shown above and the reason I chose to make my shop walls from plywood. I can grab or stow a clamp in one second. They are located two steps from my assembly table. Each clamp is supported by two cleats. Each cleat is fastened to the plywood wall with one screw. It took me less than two hours to make all the cleats and hang all the clamps. Not one to ever waste good wood, I made the cleats out of what used to be the rails of the bunk bed I built for the boys when they were small. Other remnants of those beds can be found elsewhere throughout the shop.