Floating Axe Shelf

在这种指导中，我将向您展示如何使用木匠轴作为支持创建浮动架。这是一个很棒的项目，如果您只是进入木工，或有限的工具，材料也非常便宜。我夏天在车库出售时买了木匠的斧头，董事会从我们居住的谷仓开始回收，而我唯一不得不买的是角钢。这是一个令人难以置信的廉价项目，可以达到材料，我想让这个项目几乎任何人都应该做到，所以决定使用除钻头之外的所有手动工具。这是我第一次制作并安装了一架货架，我绝对兴奋着了！我喜欢回收板和轴的外观，这是我在现代仿古设计中大修我的房间的第一步！

材料：
2 carpenter's axes
Wooden boards (for shelf)
角度铁（3/4英寸x 1/8英寸x 48英寸）
Hardware (include details)

Tools:
电源钻头
Hand saw
Chisel
手平面
带金属切割刀片的钢锯
*Additional power tools may help to speed up this process, however they really aren't necessary.

The axes were both quite rusty when I bought them over the summer, so I wanted to clean them up before I integrated them into my shelf. I wanted to keep with the theme of no power tools so they were sanded entirely by hand with sandpaper and sanding sponges. I removed all of the surface rust, but I left some oxidation in the pitting because I really liked the effect it gave. The rust left in the pitting shows the age if the axes, and with the rest of the surface all shined up they look really great. This step took me around 3+ hours to sand both axes, and this can alternately be done with a wire wheel on a bench grinder, with an orbital sander, or with a belt sander, but the effect the hand sanding gave compared to a wire wheel looks fantastic in my opinion.

在他们全部清理后，我在B'laster重型腐蚀停止中涂上了斧头，以防止更多的生锈，但您也可以使用任何其他油，如WD40甚至是Ballistol（这是一个常用的高端油保护枪上的暴露金属）。

The boards for the shelving are made from reclaimed wood from our barn, which I believe to be cedar. I wanted the shelf to be 24 inches long, so I cut the board into 2-foot lengths. Depending on your axe handles, one of your boards may have to be a fraction of an inch bigger to account for any potential tapering. I also needed the top shelf to be much shorter in width than the bottom shelf, so that I could maintain the look that the axes are holding it into the wall. Again, I used all hand tools, so the boards were cut to length by a handsaw, and then I used a chisel and a hand plane to bring the boards to the proper width. The boards still had some paint on the back for when it was part of our barn, so I also used the hand plane to clean up the underside. The dimensions of your shelves rely heavily on the type and size of the hatchets you have, so most likely you will need to come up with your own unique measurements.

I wanted to make the shelves appear as floating in order to really sell the effect that they are being held into the wall by the axes, so I used angle iron to make some custom brackets. I used 3/4 in. x 1/8 in. x 48 in. Plain Steel Angle from Home Depot (although any angle iron should work). I cut it to length using a hacksaw with a metal blade just shorter than the length of the shelves. I used the only power tool of this project in this step to drill holes into each side of the bracket.

将支架安装到墙壁上，我钻了两个孔16“分开以匹配螺柱在我的墙壁中的距离，另一侧钻孔4孔5”分开将支架固定在浮动架上。

To install the shelf I first laid out where I wanted it to be, then made sure it was level and pre drilled holes into the studs in my wall. I then mounted the bracket to the shelf using #8 x 3/4 in. Wafer Head Phillips screws, then fastened the bracket and shelf to the wall using #10 x 2 in Flat Head Phillips wood screws. Make sure that the screws for the shelves are short enough that they won't poke out the top surface.

This step is also highly dependent on the size of your axes and dimensions of your shelves, so there isn’t all that much to be said about it. Just note that sheetrock is not strong enough to hold up your shelf so you will definitely want to mount it to a stud, and if you are trying to install it into a plaster or concrete wall there are special hardware anchors designed just for this type of application.

将斧头附接到架子上的第一步是确定我希望它们的位置，然后用两个斧头的手柄标记位置并预先钻孔。在没有钻孔的情况下，您将无法通过手柄驾驶钉子，因为它们是由令人难以置信的坚硬直粒美国山核桃制成的。然后，我将斧头排成在架子上，并通过手柄和架子开车。我为两个轴和架子的架子做了这件事，结果很棒！我试图使用有限的手工工具来完成这一点，所以我只是用了锤子和指甲，但是你可以使用BRAD-inailer或类似帕克莱德的东西，以将斧头附着到货架上，但试图驾驶只是谨慎通过硬手柄的钉子。

我觉得这个项目结果的方式很激动，我真的很满意为我的第一个架子。这是一个伟大的初学者，因为任何希望进入木工或想要建立第一架子的人，因为它需要非常有限的工具，而且非常便宜或所有再生材料。真正必要的唯一的电动工具是一个钻头，所以几乎任何人都应该能够做到，无论你为您提供多少工具。

我鼓励你看看你已经拥有的东西，并试图将这些物品转变为创造性和有用的东西。我想试图证明骑自行车看起来很漂亮，并且可以比你能够购买的产品更好（更不用说你的价格范围内）！Again, I really want to reiterate that this project can be done entirely with some simple hand tools, and that just because you may not have the right tools, please don’t think that a project is impossible to do or out of your skill range. Personally this was the first time I have ever made a shelf, but I learned quickly and I think the final product came out wonderful!

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谢谢！

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