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Floating shelf hardware: Our exclusive Übermächtig

Floating shelf hardware: Our exclusive Übermächtig

Our Übermächtig floating shelf hardware is the gold standard for strength and ease of installation. With no pre-drilled holes, our hardware allows for infinite flexibility. It takes as little as 1...

Volume discounts for large projects

Volume discounts for large projects

We are your source for large quantity orders of wood floating shelves. We have supplied thousands of floating shelves on dozens of multi-unit projects across the USA. We offer the absolute highest...

Closet Shelves

Closet Shelves

For those situations when we're asked to make shelves for a partially enclosed space like a closet, the trick is how to get the shelf into the space without building it on-site? Its simple, you bui...

Drilling steel in just a few seconds

Drilling steel in just a few seconds

Around 9 seconds using an 18v handheld drill at the jobsite is what it takes to make each hole in our 3/8" thick steel Übermächtig bracket. (See video below) The critical thing is to have the right...

Small shelves 6" or less

Small shelves 6" or less

We make a lot of shelves large and small. The big shelves employ our exclusive Übermächtig steel bracket. For small ledge shelves 6" and under, we use a solid wood insert instead. It works in exact...

Corner floating shelves

Corner floating shelves

We offer several types of corner shelves, mitered inside corner, mitered outside corner, or two of our standard shelves (specify WC1E) shelves fitted together to make an L shape.