3-Day Shelf: Finishing, Drawer Installation, and French Cleat Mounting

[Applause] all right it's a cold day number three folks I got a lot of work to do today just because yesterday's glue up held me up not a whole lot I could do what we got to do today lots of sing on this I got to edgeband this drawer and then we got to start cutting our drawer face with this lots of dust collector let's get to work cuz this needs to be mounted today this girl is being too much right now I'm wearing gloves to fil them in a hat rate your fit what do you guys think oh you're wearing some heavy duty boots too look at you go you know it's only like 30° outside and which means it's like probably 40 in here and I'm still cold my hands are still so cold the shop is not for the faint of heart it is [Music] not edgeband veneer nice stuff I like the fact that you can iron it on got to wait for my mean tiny little iron to warm up we'll start ironing it on cutting off the edges sanding it so it's not abrasive on the side and this drawer will be ready for [Music] installation beautiful clean little box here got our drawer face now one thing we need to do is mounting couple methods we could either put a solid piece of Walnut here and secure it with the drill from the back personally I think it's a waste of Walnut but also I think there's a better option in the sense that you could take it on and take it off if you choose to do so the method I'm going to do is called the French cleat system and what it is is uh two pieces of wood in here split 45° angle one gets mounted to the wall and the other 45° angle gets mounted to this sucker so you can come on and just slide it down you just need to have enough room to get it over that initial home we're going to try to cut a piece down and MIT that Su [Music] cor the important part here is you got to make it flush with the back part so you don't see it and make sure it doesn't get out of alignment cuz then it'll look a little janky I'm bleeding all over this place look at that where are you bleeding from from this right here I had a blister there popped and it's still leaking up you're ruining the Walnut I'll sand it off and it's going in our house maybe has extra sentimental value maybe people feel like could bid on this thing see if they want a little bit of Mr buildy blood so the way this will work is this is the other side of the French cleat system it will mount on the wall like this facing Inward and you simply just lift this up and this sits holding it up in place this is an incredibly incredibly strong…