Studlock Mantel Bracket

I bought the 70” bracket for a 6x10x80 oak beam mantle. It holds it well. The mounting jig was on point. Plan on doing a little tweaking to get 6 holes lined up, to be expected. All in all a good product.

Bracket itself is high quality and very functional. Paid extra for routing jig, which is supposed to be set up with template for drilling, but found the template was off by 1/4" for one of the holes. Was able to make it work after some added time, frustration and work. End of day mantle looks great and wife is happy.

Used to install a 6x8x84 mantel. Once the pegs were started in the holes, it banged right on and is now sturdy as a rock. Thanks for the quick shipping and great product.

Great product takes a lot of measuring out of the process. Easy to find notches on center.

Timely delivery of my order. The bracket worked perfectly for my mantel installation

Works great. Very strong. Holds my 71” cypress fire place mantle with ease. Template was helpful to guide the router and hole locations. Tip of drill bit was broken but with the drill guide it eventually worked with pressure. Good overall product.

Purchase and delivery was good. This is a sturdy bracket. I ordered the 46" to install a 59" barn beam 6 inches thick. Used the screws that came with the bracket. It's very sturdy. Purchased the drill bit and router jig.

Easy to buy, delivered as expected, and stout as it needed to be. I installed it with 20 1/4" x 4" stainless steel lag bolts and this thing is now holding up a beautiful 72" x 4" x 12" live edge solid south Texas mesquite mantle. Turned out amazing. Highly recommended.

70” w/6, 6” Long Posts. I checked each post for straightness and opted to persuade a few a little straighter. For the recessed fit I used a circular saw on the edges followed with a router. I bored each hole with a sharp 1/2” bit ensuring straightness with the help of a bubble level on the drill. After boring out the holes to size/depth I had to waller out some two or three to ensure an easy fit all but the last 1/2”. I wanted to make sure the beam had a tighter fit at final depth. I will likely use 1/4” lags rather than screws. Loving the product.

I'm disappointed on the quality of the workmanship on the bracket. The rods were not welded straight into the piece - they were off by more than a 1/16 from top to bottom. It's pretty surprising considering how expensive this is and the overall positive reviews. Customer service was nice and sent a replacement jig which was also askew. Hopefully they can work through this on the production side before sending more products out..

Very well designed and fabricated made mounting my log mantel pretty easy

This is a very well made product! A couple of suggestions for other users, though. The holes that you’ll have to drill will need to be reemed out very well and vacuum out all the sawdust. Test the fit and keep drilling until the bracket goes all the way on. Also if you put a small wooden wedge under the bottom part of the bracket then drive the screws I , it will compensate for sag incurred by the weight on the bracket.

I didn’t receive a template as shown in the instructions but overall I was satisfied with my purchase.

I've been a woodworker and building contractor for 35 years. The drilling and routing guides have so many flaws you have to be a machinist to get them to work properly.A customer if mine bought this product and then had to pay me to fabricate the shelves. The flaws in the products cost them more due to the additional time I had to spend working around the problems.The drill guide was too big to fit into the routing jig like it's supposed to. I had to grind it down to get it to fit into the jig. The shelf drill jig is supposed to be lined up with notches in the routing jig but there are no index marks on the drill jig to do that. The shelf drill guide does not fit in any way into the mantle routing guide. Not even close. But the customer service person says that the guide is interchangable.

Very well built

Got 3 brackets, the auger bit and drill guide. I was able to install all the shelves my wife needed. Highly recommended.

Very sturdy for this Sycamore mantel

this was expensive and upon opening the package its calling for tools that were not included. at this price point, the package should have included the bit and the bracket to drill the holes straight as well as the routing template. nevertheless, I used the tools i had already (free hand drilling / free hand routing). one of the 6 holes came out crooked which made the installation of the mantle really difficult.

I have not installed it yet, but it appears to be sturdy enough to get the job done. The mantle I will be installing is in its raw condition. A 4” thick x 60” long x 12” deep slice of solid Walnut with its natural bark on the longitudinal face of the shelf. The Ultra Shelf Mantel bracket will be secured to the structural beams behind the brick of the fireplace.

Yes it was when I needed will use it again

Used this for a hand hewn beam mantle I made and it works great.

So happy to find this! Perfect solution for a concealed mantle / shelf.

Definitely designed to fit tight in the bore.