What’s Inside This Floating Shelf!?

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One of the things you might want to consider is making a "V" groove for the LEDs. You can then mount the LED strip facing away from you. You still get plenty of light, but it isn't aimed in such a way that you would get the LEDs shining into your eyes. Love your work! Love your positive approach!

The think I like the most about your videos is how happy and proud you are of yourself after something workout exactly as you planned. Excellent built 💪🏼💪🏼

Brad you are an inspiration. Thank you for leveling up your previous project and detailing all the steps. True pro!

I'll always take the time to watch floating shelf videos. The more I watch, the better equipped I can be when making them..

For LEDs, you might want to also look up sk6812b led strips. They are proper RGBW, meaning there's the usual RGB leds plus an additional dedicated proper white LED

You are a next level Woodworker. Lots of detail and extra non woodworking electrical skill. Thanks for the show.

I work with a lot of LED lighting in residential and commercial settings and the majority of products I use come from GM Lighting. Highly recommend their products. They have a very wide variety of different kinds of LED lighting & drivers and a lot of other cool products as well. They have a nice website as well as a YouTube channel that showcases some of their stuff. I usually install aluminum channel recessed into the shelving with a diffuser for stuff like floating shelves, and use a 120v to 18/24v dimmer driver switch that installs like a normal switch in a wall, no transformers to hide in cabinets, just run some 18-2 from the dimmer driver switch directly to the shelves. GM also makes a nice LED strip with the diodes aimed at 90 degrees so you can place the strips on the underside of a cabinet and have the diodes aimed at the backsplash instead of straight down. Cool video, I love watching stuff like this to see tips and tricks from other people in the trades! Edit- ok I just got to the part where you added the channel and diffuser as well! Nice! Looks good! 😂

A good way to cool your drill down is actually just holding the trigger down while theres no load (just not drilling) The cooling fan on the armature will cool the motor down quick and efficiently. A lot of power tools fail due to them getting hot under high load and then just placed down, letting the motor sit there in hot air weakening the varnish. It needs cool air to be pulled through it. Putting it in front of a fan helps but it doesnt cool the internals as quickly as the armature fan would.

great work love the dual LEDS. We are getting ready to remodel the office this summer and this will have to go on my list to do!

I did almost this exact project, (well except for the rgb leds). I had a 8 quarter slab, milled it and cut it down for floating shelves. I bought welded hangers or brackets though that screwed into the studs. The advantage there is you don't have to worry about drilling perpendicular to the wall or parallel to the floor. You can either route a groove into the back or cut out the drywall, so you don't have a gap between the wall and the back of the shelf. I would recommend these brackets. It's easy to slightly angle them up to compensate for the drag from the weight of the shelf and what it is supporting. I chose to use a community woodshop and a drill press, all though I will say that, that method was also a PITA. Drilling that deep into solid maple entailed changing bits, lowering the drill press table and then re-checking that the alignment wasn't off. This is because the table lowering mechanism didn't keep parallel itself. So, all this is to say, go with FixThisBuildThat's method. Buying the drill jig is worth it. And you could consider clamping it to the board between bit changes. Great work. Happy shelving.

Love this build. The lighting is fabulous. Defo a level up. Great job.

For the task lighting, I have used an aluminium extrusion to mount the strip to. This help disapate some heat to help prolong the life of the strip.

Ok is that the coolest ever and I appreciate that you are transparent about the hiccups and work arounds Love it Brad !

Absolutely LOVE this! Also love that you experimented with making your own jig…love your videos and channel!

I like how you broadly cover the details...even the gotchas and mistakes lol. Give me confidence in trying some of the projects out. Thanks!

You just have to love it when a project works out without a problem.

Love the use of the doweling jig! The project looks great, and can't wait to see the follow up video!

Awesome build Brad! I'm in need of building some floating shelves as well. This is just the inspiration I needed. Thanks!

Awesome project. In future you might consider sticking your LEDs to a strip of aluminium and allowing a little airflow to get behind the aluminium. The strips can generate a decent amount of heat, moreso if theyre behind a lense or cover, and that can cause the adhesive to fail or over time.