Corner Clamp Rack

So, now that I’m getting my energy back it was time to address a longstanding problem: my clamp rack.

I built it when I moved to this house 23 years ago. (I should’ve taken a picture, sorry.) It was about 3 feet long, attached to the top of the pegboard by a French cleat, and had 2 bars running across made from cheap 2×2. Over the years the middle of that expanse had developed a pronounced bow from the weight of clamps, and all my clamps did not fit on it anymore. It had been time to make a new one for a while, and my time and energy happened to coincide for once.

Over a year ago I’d bought some Woodpeckers clamp holders like this:

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They were simple, compact, easy to install. Made them look like just the ticket to help me organize my clamps and save some wall space too. So I finally got one out of the box and started planning my rack … and ran into a very harsh reality. Half of my clamps, maybe a bit more, are the one-handed Quick-Grip or Bessey equivalent. They have oversize jaws that extend 3 inches in one direction and large, convenient handles that extend 5 inches the opposite direction. I could get them into the holder and they would work, but I’d have to space the holders 5-10 inches apart. There was a reason the pictures show them close together holding parallel jaw clamps instead — much lower profiles, so far less space needed between. F-clamps, pipe clamps, even my aluminum bar clamps would do well in these, but with the Quick-Grips I was better off leaving them side to side.

I spent some time on YouTube looking to see how other woodworkers handled the problem, and came away with some good ideas. I went to Woodcraft and bought two sheets of Baltic birch plywood, and then waited for the weekend. This is the sort of project where everyone’s will look different, so let’s go straight to the finished product, shall we?

I decided to go ahead the cover the pegboard with solid plywood because the 1/8″ pegboard wasn’t that strong, and this way I can put things anywhere on the surface. And I did use the Woodpacker clamp holders where it made sense to: my F-style clamps fit nicely there and saved me wall space, as did my 12-inch parallel jaw clamps (a door prize from a Weekend with WOOD) and my odd aluminum bar and short pipe clamps. The rest of the collection I made little open boxes for, screwed to the plywood in case I decide to move them. I added a screw to hold paint can openers, and a little box to neatly contain my corner blocks (which had been on the pegboard, and fell over if you looked at them wrong), but you can see I have a fair amount of open space still. It probably won’t stay that way.

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