French Cleat Pencil Holder for Craft Rooms

French Cleat Pencil Holder for Craft Rooms – your pencils, always ready to go

Your favourite pencils are no help when they’re buried under paper, rulers and half‑finished projects. This French cleat pencil holder gets them off the desk and lined up on the wall, so you can see every colour and grab exactly what you need without hunting. One glance at your craft wall and you know your tools – and your brain – are in order.

What you’re getting

• Digital plans for a wall‑mounted pencil holder that stores 12 pencils in a single, easy‑to‑reach row.
• Designed for plywood in 6 mm / 1⁄4″ thickness, so it fits right in with the rest of your French cleat setup.
• Front lip keeps pencils from rolling out, even if the craft room gets a bit chaotic.
• Standard French cleat mounting, so you can slide it anywhere on your existing craft or workshop wall.
• Coordinates with the Neat French Cleat range, so your storage actually looks like a system – not a random pile of boxes.

Ideal for

• Crafters who like their favourite colours visible and ready, not hidden in tins and drawers.
• Makers building a French cleat craft wall and wanting a quick “first win” project.
• Small workshops where desk space is precious and every square centimetre of wall matters.
• Anyone who loves tidy rows of tools and gets a tiny buzz from good workshop organization.

Build details (digital plans)

• Material: Plywood, 6 mm / 1⁄4″ recommended.
• Mounting: Standard French cleat wall (fits typical 45° wall cleats).
• Tools needed: Laser cutter, basic sanding kit, CA glue and activator, and your usual finish of choice.
• Difficulty level: Easy – great warm‑up project or first French cleat holder.
• Files included: DXF, SVG and LightBurn project file, ready to import and cut.

Watch me assemble the pencil holder

Why this instead of a generic shelf or box?

A random shelf will hold pencils, but they end up in a messy cup where you can’t see what you’ve got, and it never quite fits with the rest of your wall. This pencil holder is built for a French cleat craft room: fixed slots, clean rows, and a footprint that lines up with our other Neat French Cleat pieces. Slide it along the wall, stack it with other holders, and let the whole system work together instead of fighting a one‑off box that’s always in the way.