Making Cabinet Drawer Boxes

Measure drawer opening and cut fronts and backs.

Making cabinet drawer boxes.

Please go back to portrait mode for the best experience. We don t support landscape mode yet. It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide. Move the cases into position where they ll be installed.

Learn about the specialty tools that make cabinetmaking a breeze. They re fussy to install. You could also use 1 4 1 6 or 1 8 stock for your cabinet drawers if you don t want to deal with plywood. Put your finished cabinets to work.

The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick. The drawer needs to be built 21 1 2 wide 6 tall and 22 deep. Smaller than you need. These diy drawers are easy to build with pocket hole joinery.

Your drawer length will be 1 less than your cabinet depth. It s a handy way to fit drawer fronts in projects where the drawers run on metal slides. Determine drawer height and rough cut parts. Remove the doors drawers and all hardware and apply a finish.

Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in. I place plywood scraps underneath the drawer box and slightly extend the drawer box and the slides on both sides. Please rotate your device. Choose the maple dovetail drawer box for our highest quality hardwood drawer boxes.

How to make drawers for any cabinet or other woodworking project where you need storage. Install the drawer box into slides. How to make the crosscut sled i used in this one. It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer.

Drill pocket holes and assemble drawer box. Shim the bottom edges to level the cabinets and make the face frame edges parallel with each other. In general the drawer front should be 3 4 thick unless it s a drawer with a false front false front drawers are a simple drawer box with the front screwed to the box. If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide.

To be clear let s say the cabinet opening is 22 1 2 wide 7 tall and 23 deep. Choose the baltic birch plywood drawer box for our best value in a dovetail drawer boxes. Https ibuildit ca projects norms crosscut sled the easy dovetails jig build article. Custom made dovetail drawer boxes pre made drawer box blum metabox blum legrabox pantry drawer box cabinet doors and drawer fronts and cabinet hardware.

Match drawer sides to your drawer slides. There are plenty of ways to install the drawer boxes but this is quick and works well.