Climbing Fingerboard - Video Tutorial - How To Build Your DIY Climbing Hangboard



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Interested in building your own DIY climbing hangboard? Here's a video tutorial that shows you how to do it. Check out the above construction scheme as well - you can print it out for reference.

This blog post is part of a series of articles showing you how to build your climbing fingerboard and how to do your hangboard workouts.

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Materials and tools you'll need:
  • A 2 or 2.5 cm thick plywood board  (I used a recycled board from our climbing gym, hence the bad looks of my board)
  • Two wood rails (hard wood like oak, birch, etc.)
  • T nuts
  • 6 self drilling screws
  • 4 expansion bolts (with plastic expansion elements)
  • Climbing holds, of course (I have a few resin holds and the rest are wooden holds made by me from flooring pieces)
  • A jigsaw
  • A drill (and a few drill bits, including one for drilling in concrete walls and one for the head of the screws)
  • A wrench and bolts + washers (⌀ 10 mm ) for the holds - hex bolts for resin holds and regular bolts for wooden holds
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Tips:
  • You should pre-drill the wood rails and the hangboard. If you don't, the wood rails may crack as you try to place the self drilling screws through them. 
  • Make sure the diameter of the holes in the rails is smaller than the diameter () of self drilling screws.
  • Instead of measuring where the bolt holes will be on the wall, I suggest you stamp the four marks above the door frame. To do that, you place four paper stubs in the rails (mounted on the board); add some paint on their ends which stick out and then place the board where you want it to be; press it against the wall (click here to see the exact portion of the video tutorial). 
  • You can make most of the holds out of wood scraps (medium crimpers and small crimpers) but I advise you to buy a few bad resin slopers (bad = hard to hold onto)

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If you have any questions or remarks, post them in the comments. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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12 comments :

  1. What a great idea!! Stregthen your hands and arms while at home! Brilliant!

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  2. Yup! :-) I call it convenience training. It's hard to find a few hours to go to the gym or at the climbing cliffs but it's much easier to find 45 or an hour to train at home.

    It's a concentrated workout.

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  3. Those things look so painful. My brother is always climbing on his board, and I wonder how his fingers got so strong. I'm a pianist, so thought I could hold my own - but nowhere CLOSE! lol

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  4. @ Christian - yup I see what you mean. It was the same for me when I got my first board up. I had been a climber for a while and it was hard for me to hold onto those small holds (crimpers).

    This is a highly specific activity which needs time to master (both the power of holding onto small holds and climbing in general).

    Thanks for stopping by, Christian!

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  5. How large are bolts for most holds? What size do the t nuts need to be? or do all t nuts have the same diameter?

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    1. The bolts are about 4-5 cm long, 10 mm diameter. Same with the T-nuts - 10 mm.

      I have another hangboard at my parent's home and that has 8 mm T-nuts and the holds are held by 8 mm bolts.

      However, 10 mm nuts and bolts is the standard (most solid). Climbing gyms use these metrics as well for their walls.

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  6. cool that you made your own...but that is the most ghetto fingerboard i've ever seen, lol.

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    1. Ha ha! :-) Thanks man! Yes, it's a ghetto hangboard indeed.

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  7. What is the spacing of your t nuts

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    1. 8 cm between holes within a row and 5 cm between rows. The rows are offset to each other as you can see in the pictures.

      Cheers!

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  8. Thanks for sharing this. It is just what I was looking for.

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