Threaded Rod Floating Shelf

Unfinished steel or powder coated black finishes are available.

Threaded rod floating shelf.

I used one person for every shelf and one extra. Hold the shelves against the front of the mounted rods after they have finished curing level the shelf and tap on the front of the board with the palm of your hand. Run the shelves through the table saw to shave off the curved edges ending with squared edges and a shelf that s 10 75in from front edge to back. All together it cost a little over 100 in materials.

Putting it together start by laying the shelves on approximatly the right distance. Step 1. It s all 1x12 common pine and 1 2 threaded rod. 12 lengths of 5 8 threaded rod quantity depends on the number of studs you have to drill into 2 12 framing lumber cut to the desired length of your floating shelf 1 2 drill bit long enough to drill 3 into stud 5 8 drill bit long enough to drill 8 into shelf epoxy or construction.

The solid steel support rod is in total 172 mm long x 12mm diameter with 72mm of the bracket rod length threaded with expanding wall plug included for fixing into the wall substrate. Measure mark centres for threaded rod we re using. Set the height for your shelf there s really no right or wrong here it just needs to be the right height. Make sure that you have enough hands.

Then with a simple drill bit you can screw. I chose 3 8 inch sucker rod. Perfect invisible supports for fireplace mantle or rustic live edge wood shelving 6 inch stainless support rod shelve kit 6 4 5 out of 5 stars 75. I built these shelves for a friend.

Also called threaded rod these rods are like long bolts without heads. Rods should be fastened to a stud every 16 for the length of your shelf. Our tentative plan is to use 12 inch x 5 8 inch steel threaded rod to support the shelves by screwing the rods about 3 inches into the studs and then sliding the shelves with holes drilled in them to correspond to the rods onto the rods. 8 pcs 6 black solid steel floating shelf bracket blind shelf supports hidden brackets for floating wood shelves concealed blind shelf support screws and wall plugs included.

We also planned to use liquid nails inside the holes in the shelves. Locate where wall studs are positioned if you ve got a stud finder use it now to locate the studs or simply. The 1 2 rod has a mounting plate that is 1 75 x 1 5 for installing into each stud. 100 mm of the rod is fitted into the provided bored hole in the rear of the floating shelf suitable for custom manufactured floating shelves of thickness 18mm 1 8cm and above and with a depth of 200mm brackets can be used to fit deeper shelves but weight capacity decreases as shelf depth increases use a.