Scott Brown here and in today's exciting episode we build a floating shelf for a
beautiful television. here is the objective, this is the wall that the TV shelf is going to sit on
and the TV shelf is gonna look something like that. now the difficult part is the TV isn't
going to be wall-mounted. the entire weight of the 65 inch TV is going to be on the shelf and
it's gonna be an easel on the back of it so all the weight is going on this that's the challenge.
let's see what we can do about it.
so there are many options if you want to have a shelf without seeing the things that support the shelf. There's round steel brackets that can be mounted to the wall
there's right angle brackets that can be recessed in. As a builder who usually renovates and builds houses
My first thought is to frame this shelf with actual wall framing. so that's what we're
gonna try and do. Let's see if this bracket system works first.
Alright, moment of truth. He's alive! woo! There we go. So I'm at least double the weight of the telly.
I think with the timber, like if I framed the timber in a way that supported it as well. Blocks there and blocks there
And then the bracket. Where is it going? It's going on the same wall around there. That will probably work aye? That wouldn't work.
That way bro. Happy? Yep.
Look at that Paerau, what do you reckon? This is gonna be there like that and then the decoder machine's gonna
be in between and then ply is gonna wrap the whole thing and it's gonna look like one big
slab of wood. The timbers doing a lot of the work but this sucker here is gonna really beef it up
So holes drilled. Not exactly what you think of when you think of fine furniture making.
But we're builders ok.
All right guys I weigh 76 kilograms my tool belt probably weighs 4 maybe so
let's say 80 kilos which should be three times the weight of the TV
I can hear some crunching, but did it move? I mean I'm not gonna say it didn't, but it barely moved bro. I
think it should be okay I'm feeling confident. All right the next stage is....
okuni plywood that's what we're using. this is 12mm thick we're gonna miter the joints we don't want to see any edges of any plywood
so uh, we've cut two mitres, one here and then one
of the skinny piece over here and we've cut it from the same part
of the sheet so when we put it on here all the grain will match.
And we're taking extra care because this is the finish. no bog no filler no sandpaper either, this is it.
It is time for the glue up. Yea so it's dipping in the middle. Yeah see how that flies bro.
Okay now we can do that, what we can do is.... We can do contact glue in like
four different points. It's just so we can push this down and push it into
the holder. Then we know it's done aye. Yeah yeah yeah but we'll just be like: one two three or
something like that and then maybe do the rest. Now it's still straight aye? yeah.
1875mm
I can't lie, I'm a little bit nervous. But we did a good job. And also we're gonna screw the cabinet from
underneath into the framing so it doesn't have to hold the weight of itself so much
How is it looking? A thing of beauty? Yea I think so. I've taken off the hard stuff
It's just a matter of taking off the tape now. *Gasp* It's good bro.
You nervous Paerau? Eh? No I'm confident bro, what are you talking about.
It just got in there aye. Well done.
Wow
Oh it sags a lot aye, like 20mm.
I just put some of that glue on now. I turned the camera on a bit late. but uh, honestly that was instant.
Ready for the reveal. Oh my god, what hatch, Paearu, what hatch?
I thought you said there would be a hatch there? Just walk away.. walk away from there. Put the TV on it...
Alright, well thats what Gilles asked for so......Job done
So there we have it guys. The floating shelf.
So right now the skybox is sitting on the top. The client's going to get a smaller box that goes inside the hatch that we built.
And we're also going to reinforce the hatch a little bit because the easel that the TV is leaning against has a bit of weight
and it all pushes down on to that hatch
so we need to reinforce the hatch in order to support that weight and then the TV will sit in front of the hatch.
And we're also probably going to drill holes in the base
to help circulate air for whatever machine ends up inside there.
But it's going to be a lot smaller than this one so that should be sweet. But yeah it all turned out pretty pretty good
the feature wall here is looking good too it's got a couple of coats of polyurethane on it
The grain is spilling around the corners also spilling around these corners here
it just it just looks fantastic with the rebates. but yeah if you haven't seen that
video already I'll link that at the end. another exciting project from Scott Brown Carpentry