Sturdy Clamp Rack
Make this stout rack to length to hold every bar clamp in your shop.
Sep 19, 2011
This hardwood bar-clamp rack can be made as long as needed, with the spacing altered to hold every clamp in your shop. The rack features beefy mortise-and-tenon brackets and a tapered back plate that tilts the brackets up slightly to keep the clamps from sliding off.
To make the rack, start with a back plate that is 1-3/16 in. thick by 5-5/8 in. wide and as long as you want. Saw the back plate in two lengthwise, and use a dado blade in your tablesaw to notch in the mortises (space the mortises so that the brackets will fit your clamps; in my case 1-3/16 in. apart). Glue the two halves back together to form the throughmortises. Now taper the back plate by tacking a 1/8-in.-thick by 3/4-in.-wide strip along the face near the top edge. Run the back plate through the planer until the top edge is 1 in. thick and the bottom edge is 1-1/8 in. thick. After planing, remove the tacked-on strip.
I made the brackets that hold the clamps 1-3/4 in. square by 12-1/2 in. long with a 1-1/4-in.-square, 1-in.-long tenon on the end. Attach the rack to the wall with screws through the back plate into studs.
– Chris Gochnour, Salt Lake City, Utah
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