What's This For?

A french cleat is a wall-hanging method using beveled strips attached to the wall. It allows the tool hooks to be repositioned without removing fasteners and can hold far more weight than pegboard.

I use 105 x 18 mm "Lauan Ply Wood" ripped at a 45 degree bevel down the center, giving me two strips of roughly 50 x 18 mm cleats. Then I attach the cleats to a 15 mm ply sheet with screws driven from behind and hang the plywood on the wall into the studs.

I redesigned this in OpenSCAD so it can be modified to suit. Additionally, I've included a STL for an example design.

More designs can be found in the profile of "4iqvmk", who is the original creator of this ingenious piece of openSCAD code.

Design Notes

(Hint: text copied from "4iqvmk")
If possible, I typically use a lower shelf that's even with the end of the back. This allows the tool holder to be taken off the cleat and sit on my workbench, which is useful for bit holders and bottle holders. 6 mm thickness is sufficient for light things. Heavier tools should step up the thickness to 10 mm or more. The Customizer app seems to be unable to deal with the per-column label text vector, but OpenSCAD has no problem with it.