Drawer side and front in dovetail jig
Building The Drawers
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Drawer side and front in dovetail jig
Drawer parts ready for assembly
All six drawers assembled and sanded
| Building drawers is a fairly easy task because it's just like building a basic box. The addition of dovetail joints make it a little more difficult, but a good dovetail jig helps here. This was the first time I used 1/2 inch Baltic birch plywood in drawer construction. I found it easy to work with but didn't like the way the veneer splintered on the edges. |
| The tricky part here was that the dovetail joints fit together very tight. All my attempts to loosen the joint by adjusting the router bit setup failed. I resorted to paring down both sides of each tail with a sharp chisel before assembly. |
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