Is this the right tool for your job?
✓CHOOSE THIS WHEN
- Pyramids hold the workpiece above your working surface for less mess and easier cleanup. Non-stick points have minimal contact, allowing you to paint one side, immediately flip the workpiece and complete the job without the drying time. Great for cabinet doors, shutters, furniture, crafts, moldings. Supports up to 200 pounds. Chemical resistant. Pack of 10.
✕CHOOSE A DIFFERENT TOOL WHEN
- It is not a covering — it protects nothing from spatter; that is the dropcloth’s job (95012), and the pyramids stand on the cloth, they don’t replace it.
- It is not a clamp or a work-holder for cutting, sanding, or routing — it is a low-friction rest for finishing, and lateral force will slide a workpiece right off the points.
- It is not a drying rack for pieces you can hang; where a door can be hung by its hardware to dry, hanging frees the bench, but the pyramid’s advantage is specifically for pieces worked flat and flipped.
- And it does not eliminate the witness-mark question on the thickest high-build finishes — it manages it by sequencing (2e); a finisher pouring a mirror-gloss show face still plans which side meets the points.
Jobs this tool does
EXACT JOB METHODS FOR HYDE №43510✓ Job guideHow to Paint Both Sides of a Door or Panel in One SessionOPEN JOB GUIDE →
For these jobs—use this instead
THE JOB, THE REASON, AND THE BETTER TOOL✕ Spatter protectionIt protects nothing from spatter; that is the dropcloth’s job (95012), and the pyramids stand on the cloth, they don’t replace it. BETTER TOOL 12′ x 15′ Dropcloth 95012 →
How the pros run it
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Coverage
more points, shorter spans, more stability — err toward too many rather than too few, especially on heavy or long pieces. Orientation: points up, wide base down and stable; on a bench that isn’t dead flat, the screw-down holes are the fix. The flip: lift and turn, never slide; the piece should be set down onto points, not scooted across them. Face order: hidden face first, show face last and up (2e). Ganging: lock-and-tab into a rail for anything longer than it is stable (2c); screw down for anything light enough to wander (2d). Cleanup: the points are chemical-resistant and non-stick, so cured drips pop off and solvent wipes them — but clean them before finish cures hard in the base, or a crusted pyramid no longer sits flat. Quantity: budget four pyramids per cabinet door actually in progress; a real cabinet job stages several doors at once, which is the whole reason the pack is ten (see §5).
