This viewer likes your: creative ideas; undefeatable attitude; genuine enthusiasm; love of life and family; desire to help makers; personal drive; inquiring mind; humility; ability to credit others; etc. Undefeatable is not an official word, but I’ll coin it anyway. You have been greatly blessed and you pay your blessings forward. Thank you, Chris! May the Lord continue to bless you with His goodness.
Well, I think I am here for the same reason as the rest of your subscribers, we are inspired by your ideas. I don’t utilize French cleats in my shop but it doesn’t mean that I can’t learn something about organization, creativity or just provide feedback. Heck, maybe because your a smart guy and I want to support your channel! Nothing wrong with continuous improvement, I like the way you made them better!
Chris, thank you for all you do for this community, my friend. Are you still making any new french cleat walls with unique designs with the angle cut on the bottom? Thanks again. Felix.
Your shop build initially brought me to your channel, but your personality and demeanor is why I subscribed. I enjoy your content and look forward to future vids. Your positive attitude is sorely needed and is also contagious. Keep up the great work!
The thing is, Chris, I consider myself to be quite practical but not very imaginative so I rely on you to come up with the ideas and improve on them constantly 😊. I’ve said it before, where Norm was the biscuit joint man, you are the French cleat man 🌞
Stumpy Nubs is the reason why I subscribed to your channel. His recommendation holds a lot of weight out here. Both of you are great ambassadors for makers.
stumbled upon your channel via YoutTube recommendation due to wood working. Your personality, delivery, content, and interaction with your family spoke to me. Just keep doing what you love to do and we will return time and time again.
Stumpy nubs is awesome! I like how genuine you are. You come across as having a neighbor where you could walk over to your shop and just hang out and help out a bit.
Excellent idea regarding the French Cleat Anything Bracket. In your YT video at approximately the 2:20 time mark you demonstrate the versatility of cleating an existing manufacturer's case. Did you notice the detents of the drivers were so tight that the attempt to remove the driver displaced the case from its cleated position? May I suggest replacing the curve leading the lower foot of the Anything Bracket with a right-angle corner to facilitate the insertion of a square "key" to lock the backet in place and prevent inadvertent displacement. Love your positive energy- keep up the great work.
Awesome Chris brother. They look great, I really like the dark edges from the laser. I think that the light colored plywood, with the darker edges give the tool holders a really nice contrast. Jmo. Great work friend.
I think I came to your channel for the French cleats, found the shop build video, and have been a fan since the video about your kids. I live your channel because you keep it real. Love your stuff brothet.
HNY Chris, to you and your Family. Another genius idea, as usual, creating product, useful to almost anyone using a French cleat system. Excellent again.
Super cool and innovative. I built a shallow wooden drawer based on your ideas - it's now my favourite thing I built for myself. Thanks for sharing and more power to you!
Been with you since the garage days. So proud to watch you grow. Your skills, your shop, your experience. Just fun to see your world expand. Quite the inspiration, keep it up.
"Why am I here" - I came here on the "I quit my day job to be a full time RU-vidr" video and for some reason, I just enjoy your personality Chris. Most of the stuff you post doesn't really apply to me, I don't have a CNC, I don't have a big shop where I can build French cleat walls, I'm not really doing any of the stuff you do. I just enjoy watching and seeing what you're up to. 🤷
I found your channel either from Stumpy Nubs or when you were building your shop. I built a 30x40 shop 18 months ago and was searching RU-vid for ideas.
Bro. I am here because you just have this quality about you that makes people like you. Neat ideas and products sure, but that is secondary for me. You just seem a really good shit and that really is it for me!
Chris, I bought a couple of your tool holders last year and ended up making a bunch of them. For my brother. My son in law. Then, I found they work very well for weed eaters, pole saws, garden tools. So they are all over my shop, and garage. Love them. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for these creative items at such an affordable price, Chris. I don’t have a CNC so to benefit from yours plus all of this creativity helps me get organized and get making. Thanks again. Just bought a few
Watching you for many reasons like others said. I would still love to see a project video here and there. One in twenty or whenever it happens. I can stand many videos between that are the sort that the platform and trends lead creators to pump out. You really don’t do many of those and are always genuine. But yeah… make a box or a thing once every 3 months and I’m here forever.
I recognize a fellow Mark Rober fan, came here for the cleats but just wanted to say love the shirt man! Your vids are inspiring and have me excited to finally dig in on building a french cleat system for my basement area. Thanks for the video!
Yes! Yes! Yes! I’ve gotten a number of your products but I always thought, “These would be better if they all came with French cleats,” as I was working to add my own. I even tried to think of a good way to do it at scale, but you’ve come up with a great, simple solution-better than I any I thought of. Thanks, and I look forward to getting some soon!
🤯 So cool!!! And I love the Metal sticker!!! Just saw your episode of the Makers lounge, awesome woodworking and you can play like Carter Beauford.. leave some talent for the rest of us man!!!😂😂
Personally chris I absolutely love all the products you have and literally have almost all of your awesome innovative tool holder mounts and jigs you sell! My favorite to date is the orbital sander mount and I use it almost every day! I screw mine to the wall when not in use but I think if you can incorporate a French cleat to that it would make an awesome tool even better! I’m gonna have to go buy some of the cleats on your store and play around with it! Great work as always Chris! Best, Joe
Chris I have been struggling to figure out a solution for manufactured small parts organizers. I purchased a few sets of the briefcase size bin holding pack out style cases. I feel like a set of slim shelves would work, but am not sure where to put them. I was wondering if you had ever thought about a product for storing those. A set of cleat brackets that catch multiple runners, and handled like a set of 4 or so. Not sure if that would be something your customers would be interested in.
Love your creativity and enthusiasm, one of these days I might have to take all the dusty stuff off my shop walls and get into the “cleat” system! All the best and stay safe…….
Why am I here? I first encountered your channel during the shop build era. I was either planning or getting close to the construction phase of my own shop. The rest, they say, is history! 👊 Awesome idea for those small clam shells!
hmm. I had to think about it. I think I'm here because of stumpy nubs. Why I stayed is easy to answer. For the french cleat. And for you as a person. Your videos are relaxing.
What about a drink holder? You have made tool holders and a lot of makers drink coffee or soda. I drink a lot of water and a water bottle holder or something for my big mug or thermos might be something that other could find handy in the shop. Just a thought.
Pretty cool that those are going out with every order now. My shop is in my basement and I compete with my son’s online business, the Christmas decorations, lawn stuff and a handful of other stuff for the non-poured concrete wall space. I’m very quickly out of useable wall space! Might have to rethink the setup down there to see how to free some space up so I can expand my french cleat area! Keep up the good work! OPHS Class of ‘87!
Great work brother! May you continue to bless the maker community with grace and efficiency, and may you continue to be blessed with grace and efficiency! #aglimpseinsideefficiency #newvideoidea?
I like the new side brackets. My idea was to use them to mount my router bit storage case. It's currently in a drawer, on the router bench. Can we get them with raw edges, rather than the brown stain? Thanks
These are awesome. Some ideas: The magnetic tool strip is something I plan in my shop. You had one next to where the bit box was hung. I would be interested in that. It would be easy to just slap my strips on and be done. Also something that holds a few dewalt batteries would be helpful.
I think it would be a good idea if you started selling the files for some of the things you design for laser engravers or cnc users. There is a huge market for files like that.
Very good idea and saves lots of wood. Very inventive you will do well with this idea. I'm just wondering I don't know myself if it would work but can a channel be put in these so they can be moved up or down for a person's convenience or would a series of holes work for more stable hold or would it be a bad idea. I think if it worked at all it should only be for the lighter tools that would not put too much weight on the area holding it. I'm not trying to be funny I don't know enough myself so I'm just asking for your experience and advice please and thanks for showing your great idea and knowledge
That's cool idea. I seen you did what I've done by hanging stuff so you know where it's at. But saying that saw yours pop up so to stop that you might look at Specific Love Creations french cleat locks they've kept me from dumping stuff in the floor. This is just a thought I had seen that might help.
what are the weight specs on those new cleats? As in, how much weight will they hold before failing? Can they be doubled up for more support? How much more?
To use the brackets what size cleats do you need. Putting up one in my garage very soon and the brackets seem like a good idea and easy to adapt somethings I've already got.
The opening is 3 inches so the height of the Clit if it’s less than that you’re good also, the typically made it to 3/4 of an inch in thickness. However, if you have half inch thickness diesel still work thanks for the interest brother.
Yeah, shipping has gone up considerably over the past 2 1/2 years. Plus my business is it quite big enough to offer a ton of discounts on shipping like some of your big conglomerates like we used to buy them from such as Amazon and Walmart. I do appreciate you supporting small business though as it does mean the world to us.
I use the Milwaukee M12 system. As you probably know, the batteries are tubular shaped and fit flush in the handles. Do you have any solutions for these?
Store them right side up or if you have upgraded battery packs that are able to pretend to be a typical battery shape does method seem to work but no I haven’t designed anything specifically for that tool as of yet
Just a thought: could you make the holes to screw stuff spaced out like predrilled pilot holes? I don’t know how much work, money, laser time would go into it.
