Paracord Pegboard Lanyard (space Saving Shop Hack)

Afternoon Tinkers, Inventors Hackers and Makers. I have been going stir crazy with the cold and figured to be a better TinkerGNome I needed to revisit my work space. Currently I don't have enough storage for my tools and project bits. I am planning on using quite a quantity of pegboard in the coming months however the problem I have always had were that long hooks bent when you put heavy things on them like a hammer. I like my hammers and I want the ability to hang them, without constantly picking them off the floor.

While shoveling the driveway I was thinking about various things while I work as I am prone to do when the thought of cool WW2 British commando gear popped into my head. They had these toggle ropes that they used to make longer rope and also garrote those unlucky enough to be encountered on a mission.

Hmm a garrote is a loop of cordage. The best cordage is 550 paracord. I may have to make small loops of paracord to hang my heavy tools.

So I tied up 2 one using a 12 inch length of cord and another using a 24 inch length of cord. As you can see from the pictures they work well for small items like a roll of tape,

12 inch lengh of cordage wound up being a bit too short. The 24 seems to be a bit too long. so lets go with 18 inch lengths. However if it is up to you feel free to use what ever length works for you.


They seem to work well enough with heavy objects such as my drills, Dremels, and drills with Dremels. The toggles also seems to work well with small tools and objects of pecular shape like cans of PVC Primer.

In the next step I will show you what I did.