How To Build Drawer Boxes – Woodworking Tips
How To Build Drawer Boxes – Woodworking Tips
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In this woodworking video, I show how to make drawer boxes. Or perhaps more accurately, how I make drawer boxes. There are tons of ways you can make drawer boxes. I’m not saying my way is best. It is just a quick and easy way that works for me. This could be a boring topic, so I tried to make it enjoyable to watch. On that note…Hope you enjoy!
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drawer boxes!
Recently subscribed to your channel. Liked this video a lot as this is also my preferred method (lazy hobbyist). The only times I deviated from this are when I made the laundry room cabinetry and I used 1" braces to support a half inch thick plywood bottom/base (enough to support laundry detergent weight), or when I used primed particle boards for building closets. For the primed particle boards, I like to use 45-degree joints as I’m lazy and don’t want to have to deal with the exposed particle board edges with veneer strips.
I did it with the Stodoys plans.
Profound in the simplest of ways…. Great stuff.
i can t find easy way to install drawer fronts and make perfect access without using jigs and kits
i like your content and your approach to building/creating! it really shows in how you make these videos as well!
Those are called grooves when they run with the grain dados run across the grain
A Cubbies Fan, Subscribed! Oh and for the good videos.
Very happy that I found your videos today. Love the music and your style of narration.
I just came for drawer boxes but left questioning my life choices. Those were some serious thoughts my man.
Clean and simple, love it. What kind of countersink drill bits and screws do you use? The drill bit didn’t seem as long as the screws, haven’t experienced splitting? Thank you.
Why not use the 1/4"x1/4"x1/4" method to build your drawer boxes? Also, if you did use this method, then you could insert the bottom in a dado slot…which is part of the 1/4×1/4×1/4 method.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1%2F4x1%2F4x1%2F4+method
Love the humor!
Having gone through a two year Fine Woodworking course, I agree with just about everything you did here. And yes, the drawer fronts are on correctly and for the reason you stated. The only thing I would disagree with, and this is just my humble opinion, the bottoms should be inset a least a little bit. The majority of pressure comes from the opening and closing of the drawer, items being thrown into it and, as the drawer gets older, the weight of the items on the drawer bottom. I now repair/rebuild old furniture for my beer money. The first thing (and sometimes thing only thing) I usually have to do is replace the drawer bottoms. But I work with heirloom pieces. And the first thing I learned in school, everyone does everything differently.
Keep up the good work and thanks.
Even for bigger boxes would you still use 1/2" plywood? Like say for a double wide dresser?
Nice job Chris!, There is a time and place for "fine" woodworking and picking your battles is exactly what it’s about sometimes… and an aside… I like your editing style, Kudos!
i dig your vibe man.
Hi Chris,I hope you don’t mind me asking, have you ever considered doing a brief shop tour showing your equipment / tools. I have been trying to work out which make/ model saw and joiner you have. I also would really like to get a look at that table saw mitre sled you have with such accurate adjustment.Keep up the fantastic work, I can only imagine the time and effort it must take to distil the narration down to such a point where is comes across so simplified and stripped back. The odd addition of some quality dry wit is not lost either. It frequently makes me laugh.Thanks for all your effort, it really shows.Wayne
I really really love your videos! I like the narration.
Do you have any particular drawer slides you use?
Hello Chris, stupid questions have to be asked i think, so… Do you nail the bottom to the four sides ?
Thank you and have a nice day !
I spent hours trying to look for a video like this and then one afternoon I notice it on your channel. Thanks!
I have made one just like that for my son’s drawer 5 years ago. works fine and sturdy still. cool garage workshop!
Go to woodprix page if you want to learn how to build it yourself
Finally someone who uses torx screws (at least thats what they are called in Denmark).
Width is the critical dimension and plywood thickness is not an exact 1/2". Does it makes more sense to cut the front/back pieces to the finished width and cut the sides minus plywood thickness?
Ok, so I know this is an old video, but I need to tell you how useful this video is. I’m going to fix up a dresser that I’ve had since I can remember, probably at least when I was 3 or 4. The carcass is reasonably neat, and in decent condition, but the drawers are suffering, and weren’t amazingly built to begin with. I was struggling with finding a good guide to build easy, strong drawers when I remembered this one. You may think this kind of video is silly when you’re making them, but they are super useful.
As a hardwood and dovetails guy myself I can honestly say that this is strong enough for most drawers.
What size screws do you use to join the 1/2 inch plywood?
#6 screws? #8 seems too big for 1/2”
damn..mr. miyagi in the house!!.. good job..
I really appreciate this as I’m in the process of restoring a 30+ year old rv. I can tell you for certain that there is a place in this world for drawers without dovetails as I currently have a perfect example sitting in my driveway! 🙂 Thanks! I enjoyed this and it was very helpful.
I checked a lot of handbooks with woodworking plans. Instructions from woodprix are the best I think.
What is the material on the drawer bottom? Looks like ply when you are cutting it, but the side close up looks like hardboard/MDF.
Is this about Drawer Boxes?..
Time indeed is an extremely limited currency! I love your vids man! Keep it up!
You should visit woodprix website if you would like to make it by yourself I think.
ill try it ty for sharing
I like most of your general designs from an aesthetic standpoint…but your dialogue is just all fluff, hard to listen to without feeling a visceral response on slow boil. are you just advertising your work and endlessly plugging social media?
"pick your battles"….pick my nose and find videos that discuss more of the technical points of wood working rather than watch your play with all your fancy tools and pontificate about fluffy concepts. charmin soft. baby thighs.
Dude. Thank you. This was super beneficial to me.
i like this way!!!
Great video. I have just made one. Thank you so much.
We played a drinking game called drawer boxes.
Hi fellows. I think you need to take some time and take a fast tour on woodprix website to learn how to make it.
Chris, I really appreciate the sentiments of this video (or more correctly the narrative..). It is easy (for me) to feel somewhat inadequate in terms of one’s work when one doesn’t do dovetail joint for drawer boxes, but I know that I am more pragmatist than artisan..
I really respect your eye for design, and that design is in my eyes much more valuable than the execution of a specific joint style.
I get that the elaborate joints were developed to overcome a limitation of technologies that are no longer as relevant to us as they were to past generations of woodworkers.. glues have evolved significantly, as have fasteners. I say embrace them and use them to build great design.. but clearly you already heard that from someone else (or your inner voice..). I love your work, watching from over here in New Zealand..
I’m sure this may have been a good video but I will never know. 18 seconds in and I couldn’t handle how annoying the video is…
Drawer Boxes!…haha you got me there already!
Great video. Thanks. How do you decide how tall to make each drawer? I notice some of your pieces have big gaps between drawers vertically. Thanks.
Very Helpful! Thank you!
I gained some respect for you with this simplicity.