The Only DIY Floating Shelf Video You'll Ever Need!!!

hey I am Ryan paneer with Ironwood outfit and you know what YouTube needs yeah another floating shelf video okay look I know I know there are a thousand if not more than a thousand floating shelf videos on YouTube but most of them show you how to make one or two little shelves inside of a bathroom or something this is for a larger job there will be five seven-foot shelf in a room with a ten-foot ceiling so we're going to show kind of what it's like to back out a bunch of these so I'm gonna pull all the staples out I will walk you through step by step now the frame or the core the skeleton whatever you want to call it is really easy there's a little trick that I'll show you in a second right now these things are going to be seven feet long but the box or the case that's going to be over the top of them is 3/4 inch stock so I got to subtract an inch and a half [Music] now the frame of this it's gonna have supports that come out like this and then the box that slides over it however what no one seems to talk about is something that is really helpful is marking the stud location on here first so that when you go to mount it you don't have these in the position that where the stud is gonna be and that's where you want to put a screw so you have to skip one and on a 7-foot radish up this big you kind of want as much support as possible where I'm going it is three inches to the left of the center line that's where the stud location is up from there all we have to do is mark 16 on center [Music] the more you mark now the easier things aren't [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is why marking out stud location is so important this I didn't know if it was going to come up but it really did firstly so this is how they been laid out basically on one corner then you just put one in the middle problem is the middle of this section here way too close to that stud location when it comes time to mount it I hit this thing like crazy I can't melt so because I'm located at first and LLL know exactly where the studs are gonna be I can slide this piece over give myself plenty of clearance on this stud and it makes life a whole lot easier again it's not the end of the world but I want to hit every step that I can so that these can support as much weight as possible [Music] [Music] so I did every single one that I realized the last one I did I did upside down I was the thing I was trying to avoid the entire time and sure enough I mean those look kind of like the middle right I don't know whatever you'll make mistakes [Music] [Music] [Music] I'll explain more in a second but because I'm using this old miter saw you can see here none of the joints line up well [Music] okay so truth be told it's been three days since I worked on the shelves you saw me using this thing it's an old porter cable every single adjustment is totally out of square and not by a little bit and I know you can kind of adjust the fences but it's totally pointless and the reason it's been three days since I worked on anything is because Amazon has two days shipping don't judge me [Music] [Music] so if you didn't know these pins and Brad's are like have a little bevel why am i showing it to you you're feel like you're able to see that there's just tiny pins anyone now sometimes you'll see them ricochet off earlier I actually shot myself Oh got shot with the nail which means they ricochet left to right if you're holding the gun straight that means if I'm shooting into a thin three-quarter inch piece like this if I put it sideways which is the easiest way to nail it on edge like that it's easily gonna shoot in or out so it doesn't work so shooting it like this means when it deflects either left or right with these 23 gauge pins it deflects like crazy it still goes into the material you don't have to worry about [Music] as I'm finishing up assembly and sanding I want to thank everyone as always for watching I haven't been able to post nearly as many videos as I'd like lately but I have some really cool plans for the channel coming up so stay tuned subscribe if you haven't already I should have a really cool shop tour in the next probably month or so that highlights some really cool stuff like the dust manifold and the assembly table and some other things so thanks for all your support and patience the more you like comment share and subscribe the more of these videos I can put out I really appreciate it and I hope you enjoy the rest [Music] okay we're almost done with sanding I went up to about 120 I'm gonna go to 180 or 220 but before we do the last grid I wanted to show you a little trick there's a couple of little gaps like where the miters don't quite match up not that any of us ever make that mistake I brought you in close and I thought it would be good to start off with the largest gap this is I mean it's probably not a sixteenth of an inch but I mean that is a pretty substantial yeah and now you do this before the final sanding just because you're gonna probably have to sand a little bit of glue off take some glue squeeze it into there and you kind of force it in with your finger then I use a burnisher this is to burnish card scrapers you can use the end of a screwdriver you can use anything but all you do is bend the fibers down like this you just start squeezing it in you work from both sides so you burnish this side down you burnish this side back into it and before you know it there is no gap anymore especially with soft wood this works phenomenally well and now for the finish I'm just using a thick um bird i diluted with mineral spirits it's one of the absolute easiest things I've ever used you just flood it on and wipe it off and it looks absolutely great [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] here I'm using an HVLP sprayer and pre catalyzed lacquer then I touch sand everything with 320 spray a second and third coat and I always end with a non scratch scotch brite pad that honestly took me three takes to say correctly by the way it is a serious tongue twister anyway this knocks down any high spots or dust that settles in the finish but doesn't really dull hardly at all and it leaves everything silky smooth [Music] all that's left now is the install which is always the best and worst part of a job I love that it's almost over but it's a little annoying in someone else's home if something goes wrong but planning ahead by locating the studs and thinking through everything ahead of time made for a pretty short and easy and self the only change I made is that I used four shells instead of five so it didn't look quite so crowded and I installed the last shelf in their breakfast nook so I will leave you with that and the final reveal thanks again for watching and I hope to see you next time [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Ryan Penir

Views: 1,450,166

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Id: pVyr73P-eV0

Length: 12min 44sec (764 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 16 2017