How To Make Super Strong and Thin Floating Shelves
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
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What separates a new woodworker from a pro is how well they hide their mistakes.
I always appreciate when creators leave the mistakes in their videos, how to fix things is nearly as important as how to make things.
This. Instant sub for me.
My thoughts exactly.
Used this technique tonight with the threaded rods. Looked pretty good. Then I went to my bedroom on the other side of the wall and realized I drilled all the way through to the bedroom and the threaded rods were poking out.
Guess I'm installing a floating shelf in the bedroom, too!
😁
This comment literally made me lol.
if that rod is long enough and can install another floating shelves from bedroom too?
How many people can say they not only have floating shelves, but cantilever shelves! Just pretend it was deliberate and show them off to people! 😂
Oh no!!!
Showing your mistakes and your solutions to them are the most valuable parts of instructional videos!
I love the fact that you actually share your mistakes with us, as well. As a beginner word worker, I feel like it's important to realize that everything rarely goes to plan. I love the improvisation of jigs and tricks to help you get the results that you're after
I was legitimately thinking "oh yeah look at this guy with a beautiful workshop just effortlessly making perfect stuff" until disaster struck. I'm so happy you kept it in the video proving this doesn't always work out as first thought out to be, but with a creative approach they're always solvable. Et godt stykke håndverk!
These might be the most beautiful shelves I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing that with us Alexandre!
Seems like architects like Alexandres content :D
@@VIA-studio Hey brother! Happy to see you. And for sure, ALCH is an inspiration 🙌
agreed
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Cringe. The most beautiful shelf 🤢😂 lmao
wow! I'm really happy with how cheerful this video is.
So fantastic! I love how you use everything from small handtools to super drill press and table saw for this project. Measure twice, cut once! Great video Alexandre, thanks for making it.
Initial thoughts when you started drilling: doesn't he want to mark the desired depth or something... Few minutes later: ooh, I see😁
Plans sometimes changes during doing something. Finally that is amaizing. Dust collector shelf :-)
I had the same thought 😅
Yeah, a piece of tape on the drillbit wouldn't have been a bad idea
But he clearly did mark the depth on the drill bit (very clearly visible around 9:55), it just seems to me he decided to add the chamfer after all was said and done :D
@@Jirk4 but he changed his mind, becouse of nice look of stool.
May I just say that.. Man, you are UNDERAPPRECIATED... The amount of time, effort, and hard work you put into every video. Both on and off screen is immense. It's truly wild. Your talent, skill, perfectionism and charisma knows no bounds. Great job as always. Love your videos. 💕🙏🏾
Good tip for making sure you drill each hole in the shelves at precisely the same depth. Measure the desired length on your drill-bit and wind a piece of paper tape around the bit itself at that exact spot. Once you drill up to that spot you simply stop and you know that each hole has the desired depth. Great looking shelves!
That chamfering and edge finishing work is master touch. Appreciated.
How in the world you only have 285K subs?? These are the most dynamic and well thought out woodworking videos I've ever seen.
My wife has been wanting floating shelves in our kitchen, and I have been trying to come up with the best way to do it. This looks so much easier than what I was planning. Nice and simple! Thanks for the inspiration. Subscribed...
Ikea has these shelves for over 2 decades now
I love the way you combine modern machinery and super old school techniques when you need to.
The threaded rod idea is amazing for floating shelves! Very strong. You obviously did a good job framing that wall. Anytime I’ve put floating shelves that long on a wall. You could definitely see the waves in the wall due to gaps between the shelf and the wall.
My cat would flippin' love those shelves.
Same
And kick all things off xD
@@syXification thats what shelfes are for 😺
Good try talking in third person, Snuffles.
@@mlouryn Busted!❤️
I have absolutely no intention to make these shelves, and yet, I enjoy watching you work. Good job!
You are definitely passionate about your work.
I appreciate that you showed your mistakes and way to fix them. It's oftentimes too easy to make a video appear as though everything went perfectly.
I really like that 70° bevel on the edge of the shelf, very effective.
The difference between a good craftsman and a bad craftsman is a good craftsman knows how to fix his mistakes, nice job
The best Dyi floating thin shelve project I’ve seen yet, and i greatly appreciate showing the mistakes and corrections, that was awesome. A TRUE woodworker 👍👍
Keep up the good work. A lot of respect to you.
That chamfer makes all the difference in the appearance of your shelves. Excellent!
aligning 4 rods perfectly spaced, perfectly straight, perfectly in line, with zero mm of tolerance... you mad man.
I prefer using a laser for such tasks 😅
Wish I lived somewhere I could get perflectly flat pieces of wood.
this gonna be top comment in no time
Ha ha, great sense of humor! 😁
Yah, the trees in his area mostly grow perfectly perpendicular, so it's quite easy to pick the stock...
Or you can invest in some thickness planer! I wish I had that one!
I wish I lived somewhere where I could find a perfectly flat wall!
Thanks for showing & not hiding the mistakes that you did. Learning to fix the mistake is something extra. Wonderful shelves, never thought of thinning the shelves with an angled cut.
Most talkative project ever seen.
Norwegian krone coming in clutch to make that corner radius!🤙🏻
I wish this had been posted 2 weeks ago, I just put some floating shelves up and was disappointed in the brackets I used. Using threaded rod is genius ill have to use that on my next set of shelves.
I promise you, alignment is the key here. You can screw it up very easy. I don't know your skills, so I wish you good luck 😎
Absolutely my thoughts dude. I just used some 1/2 floating shelf brackets that slide into the wood like this, but they are nowhere near sturdy like the all thread. I wish I would have seen this sooner.
Love the way we got to see the screw up, the fix was just brilliant! The shelves are a work of art......I have a lot to learn.
I appreciate the mistake because I got to see your fix process, too. Thanks for the video.
excellent project Alex! 👌😉 love the videos
Omg huge fan
more talk than work my goodness
i have done that before i saw yuor video
I'm just proud that I realized he was cutting his chamfer too steep and the rods were gonna poke out before he did it. made me feel smart for once
Yes sir I learned that with tools everything is much easier 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I will never build those, but Ilove watching skilled craftsmen.
Would have been interesting to let the rod stick through then grind it to match the wood bevel to add contrast.
Yes but I think the idea of those shelves is to make them appear to have no support
I thought it looked cool with the wood plugs sticking out...
They look really great, now I have table saw and drill press envy.
sorry about that...
@JIM in my case it's about all workshop :-)
finally! someone using mm as meaurements!
Yes this is the best floating shelf video in the world ty for making it so simple
Alex even when you make a mistake, the end result is always amazing. You're one of those channels that has way fewer viewers than you deserve. Look forward to you getting a lot more subs!
I want these for myself! Its just so minimal and so damn clean to look at. I wish I have my own workshop too and I wish I could drill into my apartment's wall. LOL
Love the hand planed details
Wow thats great! Even if you dont have all the power tools like table saw, you can still do it. Now thats DIY
awesome shelves! also congrats on the 200k subs :)
Love how you marked where to drill on the shelves - I personall want to measure as little as possible! lol
nice, i really enjoy that you made a very small mistake and showed it and fixed it.
Skills, old and new. A beautiful table saw AND a hand plane for a picture perfect finish. A perfect combination. Honestly, I wasn't sure how you were going to rectify the hole issue, but, it worked out very nicely. Well done!
14:26 This Old Alexander :-) on you sander. You are just incredibly clever and always upbeat.
what??
@@jorisvb i think it's a reference to a channel called This Old Tony that always alters text while editing to say subscribe and other Little things and its really fun to look for them in his videos. You should check him out
Everything about this video and especially your work and outcome it’s amazing ! You are the very first one I come across that makes such thin (incredibly beautiful) floating shelves !
brilliant, I wonder how many people took a short cut and regretted it!
I've been watching some pretty amazing videos for about 5 hours but this is the first I HAVE to comment on.
You are so meticulous and have such amazing attention to detail. This actually blew me away! This is not just carpentry, it's a work of art. Thanks for sharing!
these look great!
.. though i'm usually of the mindset of "if you cant hide it, feature it", so i would have probably filled the holes with dark plugs, to make it look like it was intended :P
The fit of the shelves is great, but not as good as Alexandre's fit. That turtleneck!
Was thinking the same thing. My man's is rocking that turtleneck. For sure. 🙏🏾
You make it look so easy, great presentation & skills. Out of all the floating shelves I've seen by far this it most beautiful of all of them. Alex thanks for sharing this.
watched a ton of these and this is the first one that is clear, complete and inspires absolute confidence using not over the top techniques and with common tools. Super well photographed and the adapt of plan to apply a fix for a minor slip brings the project to a successful conclusion. Well done and thanks.
Can we just appreciate the fact he taped his playbutton
I think that leaving the wood dowels round could have been a fun design feature 😃
I ❤ creative minds & you have a creative mind.
ive been looking for a shelf mounting solution for a long time. First time ive come across your channel. AWESOME work. Love the positive attitude. KEEP IT UP
now he is doing that side to everything lol
That 70° edge looks so good though, can't blame him
That edge is now known as the "Chappel Edge" 😍
Im afraid that somehow it will chop someone head of but woth it anyway
@@ThePropMaker Are you putting a Chappel on that shelf?
@@kiefna9447 @The Next Project This needs to be a thing
One sound dampening panel is falling. Go with care.
I can say your video is clear as sunlight...even a layman will understand your instruction
The way he chuckles while talking is really good tho😆
Fler enn meg som så den norske kronen?
i know i am late but plz can anyone tell me what he program he uses to print 3d stuff plzz
For design he's mentioned Fusion 360 in the past. I've not see him mention which slicer he uses, but for my own printer I just use the one the printer manufacturer recommended (Cura).
@@epiendless1128 thank you very much. 😀😀
I hit subscribe when you pulled out the hand planer
Awesome shelves, nice work even with an error, I remember when I was like 9 years old, my father hired a carpenter to do the finish work on the stair case. everyday for about a week after school, I would rush into the house and watch this carpenter work, he was an old timer, one day he asked me,, do you know when you can call yourself a carpenter? I said I don't know and re replied. when you can cover up your own mistake and no one knows the difference... BAM, I have always remembered that.
He was fascinating to watch work as a kid, everything he did was done by hand, all that fine work on the spindles and railings and the fine tuning, so cool, today, I am a wood worker myself and I still learn new tricks every day. I love it.
Thanks for the great project, I love the look of the thinner shelves it's looks so sleek
Please, if you're going to drill that far through a stud (deeper than 1 1/4) that you check there is absolutely no wiring. Wiring that is run through the middle of the stud doesn't require a smash plate.
Just dont want anyone to make a grave mistake from using this method without checking.
Beautiful shelves though!!
Or plumbing lines too!!
"The rods are a little bit too long, so we have to screw ALL of them out and ...."
Eastern Europeans: "hold my beer"
And by hold my beer I mean: one bottle in the left hand and one angle grinder in the right hand. Like every Sunday morning.
I thought the same. A few simple cuts, that's it!
@@maxhouseman3129 Except you end up with fine metal dust in your "office" :)
@@Macatho that's for sure 🤣
Even if you are an experienced woodworker, there's so much to learn here. The attention to detail makes this channel worth a sub, so I did. Thx.
please never stop making videos. one of my favourite channels and I'dont even know how to work with wood.
STOP! You need to move your fence to the other side of the blade when making cuts like that. You're risking a nasty kickback by trapping the offcut between the blade and your sacrificial fence.
The saw is european style sliding table saw. On the left side is the sliding mechanism and you can not switch the fence to the left. Safest way to do this kind of bevel is to run in through a shaper. - tilting mechanism helps but dedicated cutter will do the same job.
@@anttilatvala8879 Or having the bottom of the sacrificial fence high enough for the off-cut to be bellow it. Then the off-cut is betwen the blade and air, safe.
So early that the video was still floating in the draft !
OMG so difficult, you’re an artist
Beautiful shelves! And an excellent video showing us the build. Thank you!!!
How To Make Super Strong and Thin Floating Shelves: Have a dry wall with wood posts
I mean, nothings stopping you from doing this in brick
I think that a pretty common thing to have...
@@jeroenritmeester73 Have you ever tried drilling a perfectly straight hole into brick? Let alone one that is at least 10cm deep?
@@alexander53 Not in europe. We often have metal posts in drywalls or brick and concrete walls.
If only he didn't laugh his way through pretty much every sentence. Once you hear it you can't un-hear it.
Yes. It was pretty cringe.
@@aizj16 its every video haha
Love it! Great shelves. I really like the way you work and tackle a project. I learned a few new things about floating shelves. Please go ahead and create more inspiring projects.
Normally it’s impossible we can have that much professional tools and cutting machines. But we still can enjoy your video to watching you make great job 👏
My favorite bit was rounding the corners with a file. I'm always on the lookout for solutions that don't require access to power tools
I love videos like this where they include their mistakes so we can avoid them.
Great level of expertise. Great video.
Hereafter Alexandre hit 342K.
Amazing work Alex! Looks sleek and clean.
Showing mistakes made and how to fix them is so valuable; thank you!
The trick to use 2 nuts to thread in a rod is awesome
Thank you! I watched this and then made a bedside floating shelf for my wife out of Birdseye Maple.
Fast becoming my favourite channel.
Great instructive video! I especially appreciate how you repaired the unplanned mistake with the holes. I learned a LOT. Thanks.
Found this video just in time. Already have the wood and was about to do the same with 3/4 oak. Was thinking of rebar, but I think I like your threaded rod better, plus I have lots of it. Thanks for your video.
cleanest floating shelf ive ever seen. angled edge there is a fine touch.
i must say, i have always been a big fan of floating shelves and have watched some videos on youtube. this by far is the best one. genious of using a heavy duty threads i have never tought of it.another great idea in a bag for me when i work on my closet...thank you.
I have seen many floating shelves videos, but these are the best by far.
So few videos about thin shelves and real DIY. Thanks
Akkurat hva jeg var ute etter! Genial løsning!
Great job, all I need is a workshop with all the tools,
Chamfered corners were the highlight and made this a good job!
This is brilliant, love the little chamfer on the shelves and that small radius. Really makes the shelves look nice and clean.
The enthusiasm is awesome. I love watching people that genuinely appear to enjoy what they're making a video of. When you put your shelves up and you jump for joy and got excited that they fit and looked so nice, that was pure awesomeness. Keep it up.
You said it man. People like Alex make the best shop teachers
The shelves look great-the shallow chamfer gives it a very sleek look. I've only seen wooden dowels used to attach the shelf to the wall, which worried me because I didn't know if they could support very much weight. I'll follow your lead and use metal instead. Thank you for sharing!