I went with a slightly different drawer box assembly technique on this set of drawers. Not sure of the exact name of this joint it’s a combination of a dado in the side of the drawers and a rabbet in the front. This joint will provide more glue surface area and should hopefully be stronger than a rabbet joint alone with glue and nails that I used on the Miter Saw Stand. I was using up some scrap 1/2” plywood for these boxes so I had some variations that made perfect set-up of the dado and rabbet a little challenging so I opted to get close knowing that I may need to knock down the sides that protrude beyond the fronts with a sander and some 60-grit paper. The drawers have the same 1/4” dado in the bottom to accept some 1/4” hardboard for the drawer bottoms.
The technique for installing drawer slides is straight forward. The slides were installed in the cabinets in my earlier post using a piece of 1/2” plywood as a spacer. Now that I am ready to install the drawers, I switched over to a 1/4” thick piece of hardboard. This will space the drawer perfectly when I go to attach the drawer to the slides. A quick pencil mark to account for the added thickness of the solid wood edging and I was ready to attach the slides to the drawer slides.
Repeat the process four times and the drawers are installed. If I can sneak it in, I will try and finish the drawer fronts and cabinets doors, but I may be switching gears for sugaring, soon.
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