![]() ![]() 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. Riser shelves and floating shelf, 1” measurement on both sides of the corner. ![]()
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