Started with woodworking as a hobby a year ago. I have plenty of tools now. Started with a workbench which is way to big for my small barn where also bicycles are stored (Dutch). So that’s going to be dismantled.
But what frustrates me is the lack of organized storage of tools. So I’m thinking of a French cleat wall to put my tools against.
Has anyone here did a French cleat wall and want to share experience or photos?
Not a woodworking guy but son of one.
If the picture you presented is representative, then make the cut of the wood in the other direction (not in the direction the wood layers). That piece of wood is either glued or / compressed. And in the way it is cut, if you hang heavy stuff there is a real possibility that wood layers are separated by brute force because is the glue which holds all together will not be enough.
But it is fine if you want to hang something small like a hammer.
Any woodworker will tell you that wood glue is stronger than the wood its self. If that piece fails, it won't be the glue that fails, it'll be the actual wood.
It could be, as I said before I am not the woodworking guy. Perhaps the glue improved in the last 30 years but I am pretty sure that my father wouldn't like how it is cut :)