{"id":3019,"date":"2014-09-28T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customfloat.wpengine.com\/making-a-template\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:47:28","slug":"making-a-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/making-a-template\/","title":{"rendered":"making a template"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No matter whether you’re dealing with new or old construction, walls are almost never straight or square enough to install woodwork without at least a little trimming. On a floating shelf installation,\u00a0usually only one scribe line is needed\u00a0which can be easily made with a compass. Occasionally, the job is to install a shelf into a corner or\u00a0alcove so the shelf will abut walls on 2 or 3 sides. In that case it is impossible to hold the shelf up to the wall to draw a scribe line.\"\"\"\"<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An accurate template\u00a0can be\u00a0made using 2″-3″ rips of thin plywood and a hot glue gun. The template then can be removed and\u00a0laid on top of the shelf to trim to size. This technique is common practice for stone countertop fabricators, though\u00a0it works very well for anything where a good fit is desired.\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll want to order your shelf such a size that you\u2019ll cut about \u00bc\u201d to \u00bd\u201d from the edges to be trimmed. Trimming much more\u00a0than\u00a03\/16″ from the back edge\u00a0can affect the fit of the bracket.\u00a0Up to about 1\u201d can be cut from the ends of the shelves without causing too much trouble other than getting a clean crosscut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  No matter whether you’re dealing with new or old construction, walls are almost never straight or square enough to install woodwork without at least a little trimming. On a floating shelf installation,\u00a0usually only one scribe line is needed\u00a0which can be easily made with a compass. Occasionally, the job is to install a shelf into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nmaking a template | Custom Floating Shelves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Customfloatingshelves.com is a fully equipped wood shop specializing in custom cabinetry and woodwork. The entire production process takes place in our woodworking shop, located in beautiful St. Petersburg FL. Owner Billy Dunn is a state-licensed Florida contractor #CRC1328111.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/making-a-template\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/making-a-template\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"making a template\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"making a template | Custom Floating Shelves","description":"Customfloatingshelves.com is a fully equipped wood shop specializing in custom cabinetry and woodwork. The entire production process takes place in our woodworking shop, located in beautiful St. Petersburg FL. Owner Billy Dunn is a state-licensed Florida contractor #CRC1328111.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/making-a-template\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/making-a-template\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"making a template"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}