I am going to make a shelf out of 3/4″ cherry. It will be a fairly simple design, but I want to mount it in such a way that you will not see how it is mounted on the wall. The shelf will be about 52″ long and about 6″ wide. I thought about making a tortion box with a cleat, but I really dont want the shelf to be more than 3/4″ thick.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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You can insert steel rods into the wall studs and then into the shelf. You want to make sure that everyting is square.
Scott C. Frankland
Newfoundland Wood Worker
You could use your router & keyhole bit, if you think that would be srong enough.
Just a thought.
Jerry
Use a pocket jig and 3" drywall screws.. do it from either the top or bottom, bottom preferred. Make sure you hit the studs.Steve - in Northern California
'not sure I'd trust 3" drywall screws. They're pretty brittle and aren't really up to the task; they'd be under high load in this application.
I've done this; with 3/4" stock. I screwed lag screws into each stud, long enough so that they stick out several inches from the wall, and cut the heads off . I used a dowelling jig to drill holes in the edge of the shelf. Alignment is very tricky.
RIght now they hold clothes and other lightwieght stuff in my son's room. It works OK for this. Before he was born the room was an office and they held books, which wasn't as good. The shelves would flex quite a bit. I wouldn't recommend this for a bookshelf.
You might try to cut a dovetail pin or tail about 1" or so, screw or lag that to the wall, and then mount the shelf with the matching pin or tail, by sliding it onto the cleat you just mounted on the wall. However, it is my guess this is only going to work as well as the amount of weight you put on it, and you need to make the dovetail beefy, but at the same time, not removing too much material so as to make the sides weak.
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