andrew_reuter

Excellent tutorial! I especially agree with "Focus on Quality, Not Quantity." There are so many forces out there pushing people to create content as fast as possible, YouTube advisers especially. "If you're not publishing once a week, it's not worth doing," seems to be the accepted wisdom. But shenanigans to that! Even the pros have a tough time with frequent publishing and have to phone it in some days. So why waste the time and phone in it at an amateur/artist/spare-timer/doing-it-because-I-love-it level? The work won't pay off — and can even degrade the perception of the rest of it. Just not worth it. People should feel empowered to figure out standards that work for them and then use those instead.Thanks for your work!

Amazing design! And great tutorial! Nice work!

No problem. I changed the language in "Step 3: Cutting, Drilling the 2x4s" a little bit and added a diagram sketch. What I mean is, we offset the holes to one side of the shelf support boards, instead of aligning them in the middle. That's because those support boards are going to be screwed into the frame boards from opposite sides, at least in the middle sections. If the screws weren't offset, they might hit the screw being screwed into the other side of the board.This is a tough thing to explain in text. :) Hopefully the new diagram sketch helps. Also check out these time stamps in the video:2m32s: Note how the two shelf support boards are mounted to opposite sides of the vertical frame board. Because the screws are offset to either the top or the bottom of the board, there...

No problem. I changed the language in "Step 3: Cutting, Drilling the 2x4s" a little bit and added a diagram sketch. What I mean is, we offset the holes to one side of the shelf support boards, instead of aligning them in the middle. That's because those support boards are going to be screwed into the frame boards from opposite sides, at least in the middle sections. If the screws weren't offset, they might hit the screw being screwed into the other side of the board.This is a tough thing to explain in text. :) Hopefully the new diagram sketch helps. Also check out these time stamps in the video:2m32s: Note how the two shelf support boards are mounted to opposite sides of the vertical frame board. Because the screws are offset to either the top or the bottom of the board, there's less chance that they'll hit a screw from the opposite board.3m33s: You can see that the board is offset to its left side in the pocket hole jig. You wouldn't want to go over too far, or else there won't be enough wood to support the screw. A few millimeters or a fraction of an inch should be enough.Video link: Hope that helps!

Good point. Those "brackets" were just the 2x4 boards that stretched across the width of each "unit" and supported the plywood. I changed "bracket" to "shelf support" or "shelf support board" throughout the tutorial. Thanks!

Very cool! Nice approach.

Thank you! I can assure you that any resemblance between those photos is an unfortunate coincidence. That was such a horrible time in history. Thanks for the note.

Bahahaha! Thank you! We had such a good time doing this together. I hate to be corny, but it actually was a nice "relationship building" exercise. It was a great way to work on communication and trust in a low-pressure setting. And once you're done, hey, you've got some shelves!

Thank you! The plywood pieces actually are custom fit and end up varying across the shelves. The leftmost side came out as 44 3/4" deep by 42 1/4" wide. The other two were 43 1/2" wide. Why the variance? The first two units on the right were built with set dimensions, but the last unit we built, on the left, was custom fit for the remaining space. This was a lot easier than trying to make all three shelves the same width and crossing our fingers. Hope that makes sense...

Thank you! Nice job on your iPhone stand and garage shelves!We might add some doors to the front of the shelves some day, so the top part of the frame should help with that. But it doesn’t add much structurally. Could easily leave that part off, I believe.

That turned out great! Nice work!

Nice job! Sending this to my space-challenged friend who was looking for sawhorses recently.

Very cool! Nice job!

Thanks!