I have been tasked to make shelving in a clients home and they want floating shelving. I have DAGS and found a few cool ideas but I was wondering if you fellas had some experience with something that worked real good for you.
They dreamed it would hold all their books, video equipment and a TV. Go figger...
Any experienced ideasthat would fit the bill?
RP
"RP" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have been tasked to make shelving in a clients home
> and they want floating shelving. I have DAGS and found
> a few cool ideas but I was wondering if you fellas had
> some experience with something that worked real good for
> you. They dreamed it would hold all their books, video
> equipment and a TV. Go figger... Any experienced
> ideasthat would fit the bill?
Only that the thicker they are relative to their depth, the stronger they
are. That's pretty obvious since the amount of wall contact is what is
defeating the downward force. Keep the fastenings as high as possible too,
less leverage.
Beyond that, it is pretty straight forward...build a box with internal
struts well attached to the back, hang and skin. Purely as a design
feature, the struts dont have to be rectangles, they can be tapered,
narrower at the front, wider at the back. Like airfoils.
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I was inspired to look up floating shelving.....images.....on Google, and
did I come up with a pot pouri of design.
Maybe look into that.
It was eye opening how others handled situations.
TV...etc.
john
"RP" wrote in message
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I have been tasked to make shelving in a clients home and they want
floating shelving. I have DAGS and found a few cool ideas but I was
wondering if you fellas had some experience with something that worked real
good for you.
They dreamed it would hold all their books, video equipment and a TV. Go
figger...
Any experienced ideasthat would fit the bill?
RP
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:14:51 -0700, RP wrote:
> I have been tasked to make shelving in a clients home and they want
> floating shelving. I have DAGS and found a few cool ideas but I was
> wondering if you fellas had some experience with something that worked
> real good for you.
>
Sounds like you need a torsion box. See:
http://americanwoodworker.com/blogs/techniques/archive/2013/03/07/how-to-
build-a-torsion-box.aspx
Or if you're a FWW subscriber, look up the definitive article by Ian
Kirby.
I built one once for a router table and can attest to it's strength and
stability. Kirby's article shows him sitting on one attached to a wall
only by it's back board.
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