JTTHECLOCKMAN Posted April 26 Report Posted April 26 1 hour ago, kmmcrafts said: Yeah Displaying a plaque hanging on a wall and then selling it on Etsy without any hanging hardware attached would be a good way to get some negative feedback. I'm going to be installing hangers on these but will also offer a easel stand add-on option should they not want to hang it up.. some apartment buildings don't allow you to hang things on the walls or only allow certain amount of things to be hung up etc. I do that with a few of my items as well. Here is an example. They have hangers in the back as well as they get the easel. I use to make my own easles but stopped that. Too time consuming and not really getting paid for it because I would have to jack prices up. The plastic easels are cheap when bought in bulk. Fab4 and kmmcrafts 2 Quote
JTTHECLOCKMAN Posted April 26 Report Posted April 26 When I was selling my shelves I would use key holes to support them. I found that helped the shelf sit flat on the wall as opposed to on a slight angle when using hooks. Tended to have things slide off easier. Last photo is all the jigs I made to make it easier to cut the key holes with the routers for the shape of the shelves. I use to make alot of corner shelves too. Those were tricky. kmmcrafts 1 Quote
kmmcrafts Posted April 26 Author Report Posted April 26 (edited) I did think about making pocket hole brackets and gluing those to the wood before spraying any finish on it.. Gluing wood to wood is a lot stronger than these brass colored sawtooth hangers to wood, LOL. As for the easels.. never thought about buying them, I'll have to look into that. It doesn't take long to make them though. I think the 7" tall one I made took 3 minutes to cut out on the laser from 1/4" red oak.. of coarse there is another few minutes cleaning them up to spray lacquer on them too. I made them with slots in them to fit them together so they could ship flat or can be stored flat etc.. However I need to adjust the slots again as the first couple of these I made especially the first one the slot width was so large they fit together pretty sloppy.. I adjusted it some and made another set that's much better but still need some adjusting. I don't want them to tight to make it hard to assemble but not so loose that makes them flimsy too. Edited April 26 by kmmcrafts JTTHECLOCKMAN and barb.j.enders 2 Quote
Paladin Posted April 29 Report Posted April 29 I've had good luck with the nailess ones shown here: https://www.unitedmfrs.com/Sawtooth_Hangers_s/1378.htm kmmcrafts 1 Quote
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