Mr. Hands

I like French cleats but my customers always wanted them for the worst applications. our shop was commissioned to make these giant custom French cleat-backed art display shadow boxes, six feet tall and three wide, two inches deep, 1/2" and 3/8" acrylic and I had cold sweats imagining that kind of weight hanging from cleats made of acrylic. They were so heavy and unwieldy that moving the box on the worktable took two people.. and they were just mounting the rail (also made of acrylic, of course) with regular wall anchors.