Where to buy decent floating shelves?

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Amosnz

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#2155874 7-Jan-2019 15:39

The demo shelf I drilled doesn't have anything to lock it in place, possibly one of the holes wasn't dead straight as it fits on quite snug. As eracode says, my backup plan was to drill up underneath and put a grub screw into the coach screw on the proper one.

The full metal guide would definately be more accurate than this one, it can twist/flex a bit. Once the hole has been started it has the sidewalls for support, its always been 'accurate enough' for me.

The benefit of the portable guide vs a drill press is that you can drill holes into the wall square with this, eg when you cant take the workpiece to the press.

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#2155911 7-Jan-2019 16:45

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Stu1: Hi guys putting in a new kitchen, I want somewhere to place the sonos one but not on the bench so was thinking about a couple of floating shelves with a power point resessed into the wall to power the speaker. The shelves that I have seen at bunnings, mitre ten don't look that great I am after simple straight line design with white gloss to match the kitchen cabinets. Does any one have any recommendations on decent shelves or other ideas of where to store the sonos?. Where do people keep their speakers in the kitchen?

If you never, ever fry anything, speakers can be in the kitchen.....otherwise things get a coating of aerosol fat all over them. Yuck.

Know what you mean the stereo I have at the moment is covered , the shelves I am putting in are at the end near the dining so frying will be at other end the extractor fan is pretty good so hopefully the new position won't cover the sonos in Greese fingers crossed

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#2155914 7-Jan-2019 16:53

Amosnz:

The demo shelf I drilled doesn't have anything to lock it in place, possibly one of the holes wasn't dead straight as it fits on quite snug. As eracode says, my backup plan was to drill up underneath and put a grub screw into the coach screw on the proper one.

The full metal guide would definately be more accurate than this one, it can twist/flex a bit. Once the hole has been started it has the sidewalls for support, its always been 'accurate enough' for me.

The benefit of the portable guide vs a drill press is that you can drill holes into the wall square with this, eg when you cant take the workpiece to the press.

I've got an all-metal drill guide, but it still has a bit of play in it (mostly the sliding section racking on the guide bars). It is less accurate for fine work than I was hoping but it is okay to get things at right angles. The downside of them is it makes your drill a bit more unwieldy and so harder to position accurately on the x + y axes. I know mine is a pig to try and get dowel joinery lined up dead on.

How many shelves? Might be worth making yourself a little jig or story board to position everything.

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