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Assemble and Install Floating Shelf Sleeves

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Useful Storage For The Kitchen

What happens here

Cut 3/4 inch plywood panels for the top, bottom, and front pieces of the floating shelf sleeves. Miter the front edge of the top and bottom pieces and the top and bottom edges of the front piece at 45 degrees to create seamless wrapped corners when assembled. Assemble these three pieces using wood glue and brad nails, reinforced with painter's tape to hold joints while drying. Once dry, fill any imperfections with wood filler, sand smooth with 220-grit sandpaper, and apply a semi-transparent weathered oak stain to match other elements. Allow to dry, then carefully slide the finished sleeves over the pre-installed shelf frames on the wall. Secure them with brad nails from the top or bottom edges into the frame.

Goal: Cut plywood panels to form 'sleeves' that will slide over the installed shelf frames, mitering edges for a seamless look, then stain and install them.

Tools and materials

  • 220-grit Sandpaper
  • 3/4 inch Plywood
  • Brad Nailer
  • Brad Nails
  • Miter Saw
  • Orbital Sander
  • Stain Brush/Rag
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Filler
  • Painter's Tape
  • Semi-Transparent Weathered Oak Stain
  • Wood Glue Titebond

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floating shell sleeves that will slide over it we're going to make it a three-quarter inch plywood i'm going to put it together make all the edges miter that way it looks like one solid piece and we'll stain it and then slide it on all right so these my dimensions every corner here is going to be mitered it's going to be 45 degrees on each side so i made a measurement of the inside giving about an eighth of an inch gap so it could slide on easily but i'm going to make all my cutting measurements because it's cutting at a 45 degree to accommodate the angle already so what i mean by it is by the time you make your miter you've added three quarters of an inch on the final outside dimension i added to every dimension either three quarter inches or inch and a half which is double the three quarter inches i'm not 100 sure about this here's the issue that i'm having it tripped this uh table saw the breaker burning all the wood so it's creating too much friction i'm gonna throw a brand spanking new blade on there 60 teeth is perfect for plywood especially cross cut so it doesn't chip out look at these teeth marks that's a sign of heat they're getting too hot too much friction and look how fresh these carbide teeth are [Music] so what we have here all three shelves the side pieces are done like this now we're gonna do the front piece now we have the fronts for all three shelves ready let's do the tops and bottoms for each one here's what we have we have our top and bottom mitered in the front miter on the side and flat in the back because that's going to be the back wall and then we have our front face which is mitered on all four sides we're going to use wood glue and brad nails to put it together use tape where we need it to make sure we have good seams and then once it's all dried we'll putty it up stain it sand it and slide it on how cool is this it actually worked out the dimensions are actually spot on i was expecting to really blow this i'm gonna start busting out two more of these let them dry overnight and then we'll get to sanding [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'm gonna let them dry overnight tomorrow i'm gonna wood fill it sand it and get it ready for stain now that everything's ready we're gonna do some stain this is a semi-transparent uh weathered oak very popular with irena it's this one and fruit wood this one has the same little bit gray tones that the island has so it'll match the breakfast bar shelves to the island cabinets perfectly i'm going to…

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