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Create & Utilize Spacer Jig

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Perfectly spaced drawer face frames, everytime! #diy

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What happens here

To achieve perfect, consistent spacing between the horizontal rails, create a simple wooden spacer jig. This jig should be cut to the exact desired width of the spacing between each rail. The woodworker demonstrates placing this spacer between the laid-out components, ensuring precise alignment and eliminating the need for constant re-measurement, leading to an accurately proportioned face frame.

Goal: Fabricate a custom wooden spacer jig to ensure uniform spacing between the horizontal rails (dividing pieces) of the face frame during assembly.

Tools and materials

  • Wood Scrap — A small piece of wood used to create the spacer jig, cut to the required spacing width

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could always just make a overlapped drawer face and it'll conceal it all but that's young man's game so the best way to do it is take your overall length that you're working with subtract all the dividing pieces that are going to be here for the drawer right so subtract all of this and then divide this length by how many sections there'll be so in our situation five so I created a little jig my little spacer so when this comes in here there's no guesswork you just literally line them all up and you'll

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