

The other piece is mounted to the shelf or cabinet with the mitered edge facing down and in. One piece goes on the wall with the mitered edge facing up and towards the wall. It involves creating 2 strips of wood mitered at 45° that interlock in place.

Making a French CleatĪ french cleat is a popular way of hanging shelves/ cabinetry because it gives you some flexibility in being able to easily remove the shelf or cabinet.

Use a 1/4″ round over bit and a palm router to round over the cut outs for the saw and drill locations if you choose to.
#Cordless drill holder driver
Using a combination of the circular saw and a jigsaw, cut the kerf cuts for the drill/ driver locations into the bottom shelf piece and the saw kerf cuts for the middle shelf piece as shown in the plans. Follow the cut diagram in the plans to cut the pieces as shown. You can also use a straight edge or a level and a circular saw or a combination. If you have a table saw, you can use that to cut the piece of plywood into the 14″ strips. There are a lot of different ways to do this. The first thing you’ll need to do is break down the plywood. 1 1/2″ wood screws, brad nails, or pocket hole screws.Brad Nailer & 1 1/2″ brad nails (Optional) DeWalt 20v MAX 7 1/4″ Circular Saw with FLEXVOLT ADVANTAGE.Visit my disclosure page for more information on affiliate and compensation this site accepts. This project contains affiliate links to the The Home Depot who generously supplied some of the tool(s) I’ll be utilizing in this project. Download the Free Plans Here to Follow Along I’ll never say no to tools, but it’s abundantly clear that I needed a better way to store them so this week I decided to build myself a simple cordless power tool storage shelf for the workshop. I recently partnered up with The Home Depot through their Prospective program to review some of the new 20v MAX with Flexvolt Advantage tools.
