This will change the way you build floating shelves FOREVER!

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If you want to know how to build floating shelves, this is my favorite way so far!

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[mikew]

Looks good and it's strong. Nicely done.
For commenters. Miter fold and lock router joints are better for none solid wood. This joint requires solid wood face. However it gives options on different corner profiles plus stronger. I leave center supports free until install for left to right adjustments which is especially important on full floating shelving. Also relief at least a 45 or 1/2" x 1/2" out of wall side to scribe tight to wall covering.
My take is it looks great and will last a long time. Hopefully it inspires people to try and make them.

[jackdelancey]

After 45+ yrs as a cabinetmaker miter folding is standard in the industry. In veneer, melamine, laminate, you name it it’s miter folded. Your system with 1/2 ply and solid nose is the method I use for myself at home.

[steeve-shaunfabre]

You just gained a big fan. Love the way you break it up and explain this. All of it.

As a teacher (Montréal, Canada), I can tell you you have a very good way of explaining things to make them easy to understand. Keep it up. 👍🏽

[mattyb]

Awesome method! If I had a router table I would definitely invest in one of these bits. I hope your business takes off by surprise, cause we need more people like you in this world. As a woodworker myself, I congradulate you on everything you work so hard for. :)

[marcodhaene]

I used a solid piece of wood, drilled two long holes for the supports and 2 tiny holes in the bottom to secure them. This solution has way more options as far as dimensions go so good idea 💡

[PaganWizard]

5:25 feather boards can be your friend. Use 2 of them, one on either side of your router bit. 6:38 to make your cuts less stressful on your router, and safer for you, don't go full depth on your first cut, especially with hardwoods. With this bit, make your first cut at about 50%, and then make a second pass at 100% depth, or you can make it even safer by breaking it up into thirds.

[joseph]

I used to make shelves/mantles this way when I started out. But mitering is the way to go for a happy customer, especially high end homes.

[DebHeadworth]

Thank you for your clear explanation of this floating shelf construction. You have a gift for teaching.

[hkbondar]

Jordan, excellent video, great production values, thanks for sharing your mistakes (that’s how we all learn), very effective “tell-then-show” instructional design. Really well done. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this valuable content and share it with us.

You asked how others had done floating shelves. I recently made two 8-foot-long shelves using a similar technique — mahogany plywood top & bottom wrapped with 3/8” solid mahogany on the face and sides, with the grain flowing around mitered corners — but I attached the face and sides to the plywood by using (a lot of) biscuits and glue. My technique was stronger than the folded miters everyone else does, but not nearly as strong as the interlocking glue line profile that you used. If I’m going to make more floating shelves, I will definitely buy that router bit.

Since the shelves were so long, the glue up was challenging. I used a lot of F-style and parallel clamps to hold the long front face on, and I used ratcheting tie downs (like what you’d find in the bed of a pickup truck) linked together and wrapped around the long way to hold the sides on.

After the glue dried and I needed to get the slightly proud hardwood faces flush down with the plywood, I was going to use a flush trim bit in a hand-held router, but I was scared to death I’d tear out the edge of the mahogany and screw everything up. So instead I sanded — and accidentally sanded off some of that thin plywood veneer, just like you did. :)

[ackmartin]

Great technique but a miter lock bit is even better. Make the top, front and bottom the same thickness and the run top and bottom flat. Before you run the front vertically raise the bit about 1 or 2mm. that will make it sit that amount proud. After glue up and putting a little round over on it the joint will be almost invisible but you will have a little bit of solid wood on the front edge. That way you won't see the bit of of solid wood that you have on the top and bottom surfaces.

[PO-]

You make me feel like I could make these! 😁 This video is so easy to understand, and I love how the real wood edge looks. It’s beautiful!

[B.A.Bassangler]

Hi, like your design! I noticed you're a fellow Dust-Dog owner. Hope this helps...don't use the hand-crank dilleo. It shortens the life of your filter, use an air nozzle instead. I happened across this info when doing DC modification research.

[greghamilton]

Very curios as I have been talking about and actually starting a floating shelf in my wife's laundry room. Love the way you've done the face with black walnut! Great job!

[peterdoyle]

Been in a funk with my woodworking last few months. Not sure why but this video fired me up a bit to get back in the game. thanks ! subscribed and liked

[malcolmgruber]

I'm surprised hollow floating shelves aren't normally made like this. I feel like this is just how I saw things in my head if I were to build one. It looks so great and is quite simple

[EverydayBuilds]

Let me know if you like this technique.
P.S. I’m not sure why I say “hardwood” so weird.

[e.t.preppin]

I take it that went in a corner. You only finished one end. What about the mounting bracket 🤷🏼‍♂️. I’m definitely curious. I occasionally get requests for floating shelves and have been doing solid shelves with a steel mounting frame with steel dowels and I drill the shelf to slip on the dowels.

[davekimball]

Well done. I typically find myself using a solid single piece of hardwood, but if I could find decent plywood as you had here, I'd certainly use this method.

[ajmesiti]

what a beautiful and clean looking shelf! i love that you have the option of using a router to shape the corners, which is tricky/impossible if you used plywood only

[chandrashekaravijaykumar]

it is an amazing method to build floating shelves. keep up the great work! Is there another video which shows how you hang this to the wall? I am trying to see how did you end up hanging to the wall.