[Boatanchors] Seeking Shelf Advice

[Freeberg, Scott (STP)]

I'm in the process of adding some new tables to the shack and I'd like some shelf advice.  The new tables will allow me to have more stations wired up and available for use.  Right now more than 1/2 of my stations are on the shelf in the back room.  I'm hoping to bring most of those stations into the shack so I can use them.

I've moved nearly everything around in the shack last weekend as I put in the three new radio tables.  I've got two tables along a wall, and a third table butts up against the 'wall tables' and becomes an "L".  I'm thinking of adding a shelf above one or two of the tables that will handle a heavy AM station like my Valiant/NC-300 or the Hammarlund HX-50/HXL-ONE/HQ-180 station.   What I'd like is the least amount of shelf possible, meaning not massive, not a hutch, not cubby holes.  I want to see radios, not wood.

There is a studded wall behind the tables. 

I've seen some examples of folks using a wall stud mounted shelf for heavy stuff.  While I can't imagine a heavy AM station being totally supported by a wall stud shelf, I see the photos of Brian Harris's station, and he's got a ton of heavy iron on those wall mounted moveable shelf brackets.  Its the type where you screw in vertical channel on each wall stud, then a bracket slips into the channel, and you put a piece of wood on the bracket.  Are any of you guys using that type of arrangement?

What kind of shelving are you having good luck with?

73, SCott WA9WFA