As a note, when I put screws into wood, I drill a small pilot hole first before I put the screw in.
I used clamps to hold the two pieces of wood together. I usually like to put one center and two others on each side, a couple of inches in. The screws will screw in from the back of the backboard to the shelf. I attached the shelf to the back board with 3 x 1-5/8” screws. Now that your wood is all prepared you can assemble the parts of your rock and mineral shelf. This should provide a smooth surface and clean things up for your shelf where you made the cuts. Once all your cuts and routing is done, you will need to sand all surfaces of your shelf. Here is a shot of all the pieces of wood involved in the project. Pretty easy, but slightly less cosmetic as the metal bracket would be visible. You can then, with screws, attach the shelf to the mounting brackets.
#Rock display shelf install#
The idea here is to install the mounting brackets where the studs are in the wall, then center and mount the shelf on the brackets. If this fails, and it very well could, you can use a 90 degree mounting bracket instead. The screw on the wall will be put in at a 45 degree angle as well, screw head facing up. This will help to receive the angled and mounted screw I intend to have on the wall. I then while drilling carefully, rocked from right to left to open up the hole larger. You need to be very careful here not to push it through to the other side of the back board. I then tilted my drill to the bottom side of back board, 45 degrees, and pushed in about ½” or more. With a drill bit much larger than the screw head for the wall mount, I drilled in about 1/8”. You can use plastic inserts and then put in your mounting screws in. If you don’t have a stud finder or want to just put the shelf wherever you want, no problem. I am going to drill at roughly 45 degree angle, NOT pushing all the way though. Here I am measured in at 3 1/2 inches from the side and 2 1/2 inches from the bottom. I still made it work but only had the solid support of one wall stud. Sadly I was off about 1/2″ where I wanted to mount it on my wall.
In the US, the standard wall stud width is 16”, so my aim was to put the mounting screws for my shelf on two studs for great support. I then centered the marks 2 ½” of the width of the back board.
I measured in from my 24 inch length back board 3 ½” on each side. So if you mess up, I’ll show you the easy way to do this. This step can be one of the more difficult parts of building shelves. This is one of those steps where you can easily choose a different way than what I did. I will describe what I did and what I would have done had I messed up on this step. There are a few different ways to mount your rock and mineral shelf to the wall. I routed all the outside edges of the shelves and back board except the edges that were to be flat against the back board and the actual joining of the main shelf to the backboard. A router is a bit more advanced of a tool and this is purely optional and mainly for decorative detail. Once it all looks good, you can pick a router bit you want for your edges. Then with a sander, I smoothed out the edges using an orbital sander. I cut out the half circles using the jigsaw.
Some like to be absolutely sure and have a means for pure accuracy. Measuring out these half circles can be done many different ways. I marked 2″ in on both sides and drew the curve. Me creating some hand drawn curvature to the shelf.
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