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Rout Channels for LED Strips

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Building the Ultimate Home Office Makeover 2026

What happens here

Secure each shelf piece to a workbench using clamps. Use a router fitted with a suitable bit (e.g., 3/8-inch straight bit) to create a channel along the underside of each shelf. These channels will house the LED strips and their wiring, ensuring a seamless and integrated lighting effect. A straight edge or guide should be used with the router to maintain a consistent, straight groove.

Goal: Use a router to create precise channels on the underside of each shelf piece to embed the LED strips and their wiring.

Tools and materials

  • Clamps
  • Router
  • Router Bit (e.g
  • 3/8-inch straight)
  • Safety Glasses

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Look at these beautiful shelves. Now, we have to do a couple of things because they're going to have LEDs running underneath them. I don't want them to be sticking out like glued on, and it's just going to be a half-ass job. Instead, we're going to have channels running through these uh uh floating shelves. And uh to make it a little bit more complicated for me, cuz that's what we like to do here on the channel is make my life harder, is we're going to have to recess these channels. They look like they're not far in. Uh we're only going to need about I don't know that looks like about an uh 3/8 38 of an inch. I got my router right here, but what I don't have is one of those fancy attachment things to a track saw. So, I'm going to do the old school way where I'm just going to take one of the shelves, clamp it down, and use that as a guide. And then rinse and repeat. And hopefully we get this thing looking pretty sharp. >> Absolutely perfect. Now we just got to do a billion more of these.

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