Plywood Shelves with steel uprights and brackets. #044

Hi everyone. Here ’s a quick little job I did this week for neighbours of mine, Duo, a design and architecture practice. Just a quick set of plywood shelves on what I had bought as Spur brackets. It was fun to do something simple, and it wasn’t without its challenges, and just to cap it all it turns out that the brackets and uprights I bought were not the quality British made Spur brand I had asked for. That is a real pity: you can make you sure you get the genuine thing by using the link below. Anyhoo, this is it from start to finish - enjoy!

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[mostly_water]

Dude I'm only 35 seconds into this video. What on earth gives you the right to be this charismatic

[billytsik]

Love your attention to detail even on simple things. Love your videos.

[TryThinkingAboutIt]

Another video, another set of ' I'll-need-to-remember-thats ' filed away for use during my house build. I particularly appreciate the level of attention to detail: you bother. And so add value. I like to think of it as one way (there are many others ) of creating a smile in the mind of the person who really looks at those shelves. Most won't, but of those who do, I bet they'll touch them, and - maybe- smile a little.

[bill-chichi]

Impressed with the plywood you used, no voids between the layers.

[hkrsescort]

They are beautiful shelves BTW. Nice job.

[wdnspoon]

I like seeing this simply done in a tutorial, because you can take a lot of cool approaches with this. Make the bottom board much deeper and use it as a floating desk. Put one of these over your bed, have long rails by the side of your bed and use the shelf as a nightstand. Combine shorter and longer shelves for a fancier look. Attach hooks into the back of some drawers and wall mount them. If you google for "danish wall unit" you'll find a lot of cool ideas you can implement at a fraction of the price.

[johnwareham]

I watch all your videos and I must say I have learnt a lot of tips from you
Really appreciate your videos
Great job on these shelves 👍

[hansdegroot]

One can never enough dogholes in the workbench.
A workbench is a nice thing but it must serve you, not opposite.
Good job. Simple things give the shelves a much nicer job. You only need (to know how) to do it.
Thanks for sharing.

[IowaRetroGamerDad]

Great video Peter! Looking to do something like this for my game room!

[james]

hi peter
i totally agree with you with the large router much easier to control
with the larger base

[keyl]

Nice... I only wish you had shown how you attach the shelves to the brackets, which is what I am having trouble with.

[MrMAYrichard]

Great job.however, for me he hardest is how to screw the shelves to the board?

[Earthwatcher]

Some nice ideas for a polished finish. I'm not going to notch because of (a) faff, and (b) once up, books will cover the gap between wall and shelf. Also in the past I've often wanted to run cabling up behind the shelves and it leaves room for that. A word about ideal spacing of the spur shelving would have been welcome. Excellent video, though, and great to watch someone who both loves his work and cares for detail.

[danielsan]

You can’t just drill holes in your workbench like that people will think you’re some sort of maniac!! Lol love it chap

[robenhenni]

nice job Peter, just love the on the job video's, beautiful material by the way with the wax and all 👍

[cnnys]

Good idea for the biscuit jointer I sometimes use a mortice machine but working by myself trying to handle a large sheet is not the easiest

[simonjordache]

Oh I’ll just nip to my shed for the ‘slot morticer’ 🤷

[GrahamOrm]

I like the wax idea on the ply. Looks superb. (Stolen).

[GrahamOrm]

Nice video Peter. My take on the notches. Drill a 3mm hole in each corner so that it's edges touch the side and rear of the notch. Then do the same with a 20mm bit. The perimeter of the 20mm hole should miss the 3mm hole completely and leave it in place.
Using a downward cutting jigsaw blade (They do work, you need new ones!), with a backing board cut out the notch using the two 20mm holes to turn the blade. Then trim back the bits in the corners to leave a 1.5mm radius in each corner, which can be squared off easily with the jig saw if required.
There's a thousand ways to skin a cat!!

[MrLovblad]

You should mount an large piece of acrylic to the base to get more area. I do like the idea of the support pin that festool has for their routers to better handle edges and not falling over.
I actually bought one of those fancy one-handed (trim)routers and I do feel that it is a lot easier than with the large one even with the smaller base area. It feels better balanced to handle the edges, almost like it was designed for that... :)
Nice video as always!