Build Drawer Boxes with Box Joints

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What happens here

Cut half-inch maple plywood for the drawer boxes. To ensure long-term strength for pushing and pulling, use a router table box jig (Rockler) to create box joint fingers on the ends of the drawer box pieces. This jig slides back and forth on your router table to create repeating, precise cuts that interlock like puzzle pieces. Apply wood glue to the joints and use strap clamps to hold the drawer boxes together while the glue dries.

Goal: Construct durable drawer boxes using box joints

Tools and materials

Router Table Box Jig Rockler — Creating box joints for drawer assembly
Router — Operating with the box jig to cut joints
Strap Clamps — Holding drawer boxes together during glue-up
Table Saw Laguna — Cutting plywood for drawer boxes
Half-inch Maple Plywood — Constructing the drawer boxes
Wood Glue — Assembling the box joints

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dries and you remove your clamps the drawer boxes were made out of half-inch maple ply to keep them lighter now to make them stronger I use a router table box jig that just sits over your existing router table and slides back and forth creating repeating 3/8 cuts that would lock in place like a puzzle piece this ensures long term strength over decades pushing and pulling on these drawers for hardware to be a bit fancy I went

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