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Building Drawer Boxes

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What happens here

The presenter moves on to building the drawer boxes. He uses 1/2 inch birch plywood for the drawer sides, front, and back, and 1/4 inch plywood for the bottom panels. He explains his method for accurately cutting the drawer components: calculating the overall cabinet width, subtracting the thickness of the drawer slides, and dividing the remaining space by the number of drawers. To simplify the assembly and ensure consistent spacing, he creates a custom jig. This jig allows for quick and accurate placement of the drawer components for gluing and screwing, eliminating guesswork. He applies edge banding to the exposed plywood edges for a cleaner finish.

Goal: Drawer boxes are constructed from half-inch birch plywood, using precise measurements and a jig to ensure consistent spacing for multiple drawers.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill
  • Edge Banding Trimmer
  • Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
  • Pocket Screws
  • Sander
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Glue
  • 1/2 inch Birch Plywood
  • 1/4 inch Plywood
  • Edge Banding

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two folks got our drawers cut up saved you guys the hassle of watching me repeatingly cut a thousand drawers here uh really simple half inch uh Maple not Maple Birch uh got my D cut in the middle so my quarter inch panel will go inside that'll be the bottom of the drawer and then for the front and backs I put pocket holes therefore I could screw them together with with glue and the drawer face will cover it and nobody will see what we did uh got edgeband on it got to trim it off give it a light sand and then we'll start putting them [Music] together this is the exciting part got my bottoms here got my sides uh for the bottom I cut it so because these are a/ qu inch on each side deep uh so I took the width and then I added instead of a quarter on each side I just added 3/8 just to give it enough wiggle room to actually squeeze in last thing I want is to be a little bit bigger or exactly perfect and then have problems getting everything align and I've been there before and I'm not going there [Music] again we got our first official drawer completely done look how beautiful this veneer came out with it I'm so glad I decided to do the extra step and actually clean that up really nicely with the veneer one drawer down and I don't know like 10 trillion to go buckle up kids it's going to be a long [Music] day 12 drawers folks 12 stinking drawers they're beautiful drawers uh they're done so uh I think I'm going to take a big break from building drawers for a little bit up next is the second fun part which I'm not looking forward to as well at all is uh building the doors this is going to suck

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