DIY LED Suspended Wooden Wall Shelf

If you're looking for a simple LED shelf you came to the right place. This is my first time building an LED shelf and a shelf of this kind and it went pretty easily and smoothly. It took me about 2 hours to complete the whole thing. Materials I used were

1. 12x6x3/4 inch piece of wood

2.Two 12x2x1/4 inch pieces of wood

3. Two 6x2x1/4 inch pieces of wood

4. Ten 1 inch flat head nails

5. 104 inch White LEDs ( USB connector)

6. Packaging or Scotch Tape

7. Wood Glue, ( optional)

My original plan was to stain the wood with a Walnut Stain but I ran out of time but the stain would look nice.

Since I was going this in a classroom and for my school project I was limit on my wood choice. I ended up choosing a pretty roughly shaped wood. I used a band saw to cut in but later realized I should have used a table saw or different saw. Using this wood I cute it into the 12x6x3/4 piece of would that would be the final piece. The string would have been used to hang the shelf but I decided against it.

After cutting my wood. I used the smaller 12x2x1/4 and the 6x2x1/4 piece of wood to make a lip and hang the LEDs on the bottom. I nailed the smaller pieces of wood to the base using one-inch nails. I wanted to wood glue it but we didn't have any and I had no time. The LEDs are run two and a quarter times in the inside of the lip. The second image is the LEDs on.

This project is heavily customizable so feel free to use different light, make your own lights, use smaller big, different types, just feel to express yourself. Hopefully, I did a good job to explain and this instructable inspired you to make a shelf like this own!