I'm looking at some biggish built-in shelves. The shelves surround a fireplace but are deeper than normal. They appear to be made of 1" MDF. The side walls are also made of 1" MDF. They are putting a lot of books and heavy stuff on the shelves, but the supports are just 4 little pegs. On one shelf already, a couple pegs have ripped out of the MDF.
What I'm looking to do is put in some really heavy duty peg brackets. The current ones look like this
Pioneer 0946998-50 1/4" Nickel Shelf Pin (Bag of 50) - Amazon.com
The only bigger ones I can find are like this
Amazon.com: Shelf Support, Bracket-Style, Nickel, 1/4" (25): Home Improvement
I suppose instead of 4 of the former, I could use 9 of the latter - 3 on each shelf side.
I'm really hoping to do this with pegs instead of something more clunky and ugly and time consuming. Obviously big L brackets are out of the question, as are the metal clip strips (due to having to route out the channels for them.)
What I'm looking to do is put in some really heavy duty peg brackets. The current ones look like this
Pioneer 0946998-50 1/4" Nickel Shelf Pin (Bag of 50) - Amazon.com
The only bigger ones I can find are like this
Amazon.com: Shelf Support, Bracket-Style, Nickel, 1/4" (25): Home Improvement
I suppose instead of 4 of the former, I could use 9 of the latter - 3 on each shelf side.
I'm really hoping to do this with pegs instead of something more clunky and ugly and time consuming. Obviously big L brackets are out of the question, as are the metal clip strips (due to having to route out the channels for them.)