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3-Day Shelf: Walnut Preparation and Drawer Construction with Pocket Holes

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How To Build Floating Shelves -3min Vs 3Hrs Vs 3 Days

What happens here

Begin by acquiring rough walnut lumber. Use a jointer to mill the lumber, flattening one face and squaring one edge of each board. Then, pass the boards through a planer to achieve consistent thickness and smooth surfaces. Use a table saw to rip the boards to the desired width for the shelf panels. Apply wood glue to the jointing edges of the panels and clamp them together securely, allowing the glue to cure overnight to form wider, solid panels. Once cured, remove clamps and sand the panels to remove excess glue and smooth the surfaces. Next, cut pieces of plywood to form the sides and front/back of the drawer box. Using a table saw or router, cut dadoes into the drawer box sides to accommodate the plywood bottom. Apply wood glue to the joints and use a pocket hole jig to create pocket holes on the mating edges. Assemble the drawer box by driving pocket hole screws into the prepared holes, ensuring strong and hidden joints.

Goal: This advanced step details the preparation of rough walnut lumber, gluing panels to create the main shelf body, and constructing a durable drawer box using dado cuts and strong pocket hole joinery.

Tools and materials

  • Drill/Driver
  • Jointer
  • Orbital Sander
  • Planer
  • Plywood
  • Pocket Hole Jig (Kreg Foreman)
  • Rough Walnut Lumber
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Clamps
  • Pocket Hole Screws
  • Wood Glue

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any kind of amber color mounting is going to take the most time so this part has to be fast go smooth can't forget the end all right so hard work to mount this Amazon I found out there these have these brackets should have had it open already I should have had it but I don't want to cheat I I don't want to get it all prepared all right we got Hardware here so this mounts like that okay uh I got to get this on to the wall we're going to throw it up here all right drill we're going to wait on the anchors here we go here we go throw the first one on it's not going to hold anything cuz we didn't hit stud oh shoot am I upside down crap that's not how they get mounted well we're doing the SL I hate Filip screws all right that's not a stud at all I need a level screws how we doing on time one minute I got one minute left come on on okay you have 10 seconds left 10 seconds hold on okay 10 seconds one last screw okay time what we oh 4 seconds that is a 3 minute floating shell 10 out of 10 I like it a lot to be honest with you it's simple it's easy the hardware is only like 30 bucks on Amazon um but what do you think do you like the color do you like the bracketing I do like the color it's a nice color I would use it get a piece of poppler get these $30 Amazon brackets you can bust these out in 3 minutes booya 3 minutes I can't tell you how happy I am right now that this 3 minute one is done cuz with a 3H hour I can actually catch my breath you do sound like you just ran a marathon I feel like I ran a marathon I really do feel like it this is ridiculous why am I doing this I don't know 3-hour floating shelf let's get started so for the 3-hour floating shelf we're going to go classy I picked up from Woodcraft a piece of popler that's 124 and that means it's really thick it is 2 and 3/4 thick what we need to do it's overall pretty flat I think they they pled it but they didn't throw it on the jointer so I got my brand new jointer here I actually never put a piece of wood to it after I assembled hopefully it comes out good so the first order of business I got a flat this thing on the edges and I could trim them [Music] [Applause] [Music] off okay so we got one side jointed I need to figure out the overall length so this is the hardware that I found on Amazon for this super sturdy super thick gauge steel and the idea is that you board the holes and you slide the in but there's quite a bit of prep work that still needs to happen I mean overall this thing is uh 10 in I…

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