Building Dovetail Drawers

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Building dovetail drawers.

Discover the secrets to making strong drawers by cutting locking rabbet joints on the tablesaw as taught by wood magazine design editor jeff mertz. 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. Through dovetail joints are as beautiful as they are strong and work great for all kinds of casework including drawers. In wood magazine torture tests this drawer joint proved stronger than even dovetails.

Use plywood ideally i m using 1 4 mdf i had laying around. Once you understand. If you were making an overlay drawer the front would need to be rabbeted for the necessary offset and the fence reset to run the drawer fronts. Grabbed my ever present camera and took some shots.

Stopped by a fiends shop to see what was going on. This amount makes for a good appearance and a strong joint. While they do take some planning and careful setup they are achievable for the average home woodworker. The base on this drawer is 1 4 sheet material.

The sides and the front will have a 1 4 groove cut near the bottom inside edge of each piece. How to build dovetail drawers with a floating base. With one table saw setup and a dado stack you can build drawers all day long. Building dovetail drawers is one of my favorite things to do in the shop.

For years i thought the joints were for only the best woodworkers and would be difficult if not impossible to master. Use a miter gauge to guide the cut. After marking the tails on the drawer sides scribe the dovetail baseline onto the ends of the drawer front about 1 4 from the face. In this article we take you step by step through the process of building dovetail drawers.

Learn all about mdf here. A well built dovetail drawer is not only incredibly strong and long lasting but is aesthetically beautiful. In this video wood magazine s bob.