DIY Wooden Shelf Brackets - Easy Woodworking ProjectPosted by Smart Everett on April 25th, 2021 What'S going on, y'all welcome to jacket woodworking today I am still in the middle of finishing up my workbench, but well I have some glue drawing I decided I wanted to do a real small project. My mom came up to me and showed me the son of her shelves, the wobbly robot, and so I looked at it and saw that the shelf supports there were these little metal ones that were just real flimsy and they didn't have enough strength to support all The stuff that was on their shelf, so I'm going to real, quick, just throw some stronger supports together, they're, giving pretty simple, because these just go in our our laundry room. It'S not going to be anything fancy, but I want to show you guys how I get so quite a project coming up, so this entire project was made completely out of a scrap piece of pine that I had. More Info did was go ahead and plane both sides of it and then start ripping it down to the pieces. I was going to use, which were just one inch by one and a half inches. I decided to try a new type of joinery. I learned for this project. It'S called a bridle joint I'd, never done it before, and it was a little bit tricky to figure out at first, but once I had it down, they were actually rather simple. They looked really nice and they were really strong, which is what I was mainly concerned about. The first part of the joint is essentially just a tenon, which I made by using my miter gauge and just running it over my blade until I cleared enough material away, and I did that on both sides until I had what I wanted. The mating piece was a little bit more tricky. I had to make this special jig that kept my workpiece pressed up against the fence and also kept it from falling backwards. While I ran it up right over the blade, I ran it through the blade and then flipped it over to get the exact same cut on the opposite side and then use a chisel to clear out the waste in the middle. Once I had all my joints cut, I went ahead and added some glue fit them together until they fit nice made sure to square them up. Then once they were already, I applied some clamps just to put a little pressure on them, while they driver [, Music, ], [, Music ] once they were dry, I took them over to my bandsaw. I went ahead and cut just a little bit of a taper on the bottom part of the bracket, just to make it a little more aesthetically pleasing and not look so blocky, [, Music, ] and then went ahead and sanded everything. But on the bottom part of the bracket, I didn't actually remove all of the bandsaw marks, because I thought they're giving this rustic look to the piece once that was done. It was time for finish. I used this brie wax it's actually a rustic pine. I'Ve never used it before and I absolutely loved it. He gives a real nice antique warm look to just simple pine. It makes it look great. I drilled and countersunk some holes for screws to put in the wall. I removed each old bracket, one at a time and replaced it with a new one, just right where the old one went just made it easy, because I didn't have to completely remove the shell, just replace the bracket [ Music ], and then this project was done. They were plenty sturdy, they look great and I think they're gon na hold up a lot better than those metal ones did. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope I enjoyed it. Please subscribe for more videos, we'll see you next time. [ Music, ],Like it? Share it! |