Woodworking Making Drawers

About 7 playing cards make the 1 8 thickness and 52 playing cards give you lots of equal spacers for any build.

Woodworking making drawers.

Follow this drawer how to by seasoned furniture maker gerald curry to build drawers that are solid and stable made to fit each pocket precisely. These diy drawers are easy to build with pocket hole joinery. Discover the secrets to making strong drawers by cutting locking rabbet joints on the tablesaw as taught by wood magazine design editor jeff mertz. To make sure it holds up i use this trick i read about a long time ago use playing cards.

Traditional drawers have through dovetails at the back of the box and half blind dovetails at the front. Time tested tips for making drawers that slide smoothly. The drawer face should have a 1 8 gap around it for smooth operation. Best of all this technique allows you to cut all parts of the joint with just a dado blade and a single setup on the tablesaw.

From construction basics that ensure well fitting joinery to the proper choice of wood for the front sides and bottom this article lays. Our favorite technique is to make the drawer sides front and bottom using 1 2 thick stock and then glue on a 1 4 thick piece of veneer for the front. In this video i show you how to make cabinet drawers using screws for the queen sized storage i ve been working on. Inset framed drawers are by far the easiest to figure.

How to make drawers for any cabinet or other woodworking project where you need storage. By gerald curry 242 sep oct 2014 issue. Basically the rule of thumb is allowing 1 8 space around all sides between the drawer front and the frame. This is the traditional and many would argue the strongest way to make a drawer.

This technique allows you to cut through dovetails at all four joints which is easier and to stretch your supply of good drawer front material. In wood magazine torture tests this drawer joint proved stronger than even dovetails. Learn how to properly measure for drawe.