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Hangboards for a home wall in the UK
Beastmaker 1000 and 2000 compared on the maker's published holds, size and screws, plus the mounting limit those screws imply.
A hangboard is a small wooden edge you bolt to a solid place and hang from. It is the right project when the room will not take a wall, and a useful extra when it will. This page compares two Beastmaker boards on the text published for those products. It is not a training plan and it is not a test.
Compared on the published hold list
Both boards are wood, both are about 58 cm wide, and both are sold as a single board with fixing screws. The difference is who Beastmaker says should use them, and which edges are on the wood.
Beastmaker 1000. The UK listing gives the size as 58 × 15 cm and describes the board as suitable for adults. The same ASIN's product description, the 1000 Series, presents it as the board for climbers earlier in their training: jugs, 35° and 20° slopers, and pockets from a deep four-finger down to a small 10 mm four-finger edge. The aggressive 45° slopers and monos associated with the 2000 are the holds that description says were left off. Confirm the current bullets on the UK page before you buy. Marketplace text on this ASIN is thinner than the full hold list.
Beastmaker 2000. The UK listing says it is not a hangboard for beginners. The holds it names are 45°, 35° and 20° slopers, a medium and a smaller three-finger socket, a mouth jug, incut and big rungs, two-finger pockets including sloping ones, and monos. The size is given as 58 cm long, 15 cm high and 5.8 cm deep. It comes with six screws: one 70 mm and five 50 mm.
Read that as a buying difference, not as a ladder you must climb. If your warm-up at the gym is still on large holds, the 1000's jugs match that description better. If you already use a 2000 at the wall and you want the same edges at home, the 2000 listing is the one that names those edges. A smaller edge is not a better purchase. It is a more specific one, and it is harder on fingers.
Mounting, which is the actual hazard
The screws in the box are wood screws of the lengths above. They belong in solid timber, or in a fixing the screw maker would recognise as structure. They do not belong in plasterboard, in the architrave of a door, or in the thin lining of a stud wall.
A doorway mount is common because the joist or lintel over a door is sometimes a real piece of wood. "Sometimes" is the problem. In a modern house the head of the opening may be a metal lintel, an engineered joist, or a stud you have not found. If you cannot point at the timber the screw will enter, and say why that timber can take a person hanging on one arm, do not drill it. The stud and masonry page is the same rule at wall scale.
Leave space above the board for your head and for a straight arm, and space below so a foot cannot slip onto a radiator. A board over a stair is a bad idea for reasons that do not need a diagram.
What this page will not prescribe
No hang durations, no one-arm progressions, no "do this four times a week". Finger pulleys are injured by hangs that were too small, too long, or too soon. If a finger hurts, stop. If it keeps hurting, that is a clinician's question, not a programme from a buying guide.
We have not hung on these boards for this site. The dimensions, the screw counts and the hold names are the maker's listings, checked on 13 November 2026.