Making Cabinet Drawer Boxes

Measure drawer opening and cut fronts and backs.

Making cabinet drawer boxes.

It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer. It s a handy way to fit drawer fronts in projects where the drawers run on metal slides. Remove the doors drawers and all hardware and apply a finish. We don t support landscape mode yet.

Please rotate your device. To be clear let s say the cabinet opening is 22 1 2 wide 7 tall and 23 deep. Put your finished cabinets to work. These drawer boxes are fast and easy to assemble with dowel joinery and have a durable conversion varnish finish.

Please go back to portrait mode for the best experience. Drill pocket holes and assemble drawer box. If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide. Determine drawer height and rough cut parts.

The drawer needs to be built 21 1 2 wide 6 tall and 22 deep. They re fussy to install. Shim the bottom edges to level the cabinets and make the face frame edges parallel with each other. 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.

Your drawer length will be 1 less than your cabinet depth. Match drawer sides to your drawer slides. The sides and back of the drawer should be 1 2 or 5 8 thick. 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.

Learn about the specialty tools that make cabinetmaking a breeze. It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide. Move the cases into position where they ll be installed. I always start at the bottom and install the bottom drawer first.

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Install the drawer box into slides. Smaller than you need. How to make drawers for any cabinet or other woodworking project where you need storage. Choose the maple dovetail drawer box for our highest quality hardwood drawer boxes.

There are plenty of ways to install the drawer boxes but this is quick and works well. Choose the baltic birch plywood drawer box for our best value in a dovetail drawer boxes.