How to Make Dead Simple Drawers – No Nails and No Screws
How to Make Dead Simple Drawers – No Nails and No Screws
In this video I show you how to make dead simple drawers that do not require any nails or screws. All you need for these builds is your table saw, a dado stack, clamps and glue. I’ve always enjoyed making drawers this way and I’m happy to share the process with you. YOU MUST USE 1/2″ STOCK FOR THE DRAWERS FOR THIS METHOD TO WORK
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A dado is perpendicular to the grain.. A groove is with the grain, those aren’t all dados. Also height not heighth
you never said what thickness this is?? I thought by looking it was 3/4" thk..This only works for half inch material. I really wish when you started this video you said . "this only works with 1/2" material" I dont think you ever once said what thickness this is?? You keep talking about the 1/4" board on the bottom but i did not hear the 1/2" ever once spoken of. I thought it was 3/4" so thats what i grabbed and when i went to fit them together it doesnt work. I didnt think that far ahead to realize this works with 1/2" material. Why did you not say that? Everything else was great except the most important part. I wasted a nice piece of lumber
Rabbits?? try ‘Rebates’! and dadoes? Why not cut ’em on your router table?
Thank you, I’m new and love the tips and content! Assuming this could also be done on a router for the dado cuts? Thanks again!
Quarter inch router bit on router table would work just as well. Possibly safer and faster.
Glue-up on the tablesaw made me cringe.
Excellent tutorial
Great drawer method but you didn’t mention that your boards were 1/2 in. thick. A better method is to call it the half, half, half method where all settings are 1/2 the thickness of the board. Different thickness boards require different settings.
I don’t have a table saw at the moment. Would a wood router work for the dado’s?
Regardless of all the useless comments this was definitely an interesting and informative video will definitely use this tequnique
That was awesome π
If doing a number of drawers, you might be able to save even more time by cutting some of the dados into the full sheet of plywood before even cutting out the individual pieces.
My DeWalt doesn’t take dado stacks.
Too bad for me.
Where do you get the "table saw tools"(as I call them)? That little square with the red on it. I can’t rind that kind anywhere.
How big a drawer you reckon this design could support?
Was that 3/4" material you used?
I built a quick plywood chest drawers 35 years ago for my infant son using this exact method and its still holding up. Thatβs 18 years at home, 4 years of college and four additional moves. Itβs now in my granddaughterβs possession. Iβve also built drawers for the shop and that are loaded down with power tools and junk 35 years ago and everything is holding up like a champ. π
Did this "genius" use even ONE precaution??
oh i was use 1/4 inch masinight or bottoms
Your wood throw plate sets up proud
How do you determine the width of the end boards? Mine need to be 19".
Wow! People…..DON’T cut like shown at 7:20. That rabbet cut method is so extremely dangerous and is, considering the alternative (which is the CORRECT/SAFE method,) kind of a head-up-ass move! Lay the piece flat on the table and feed it through with the miter gauge.
Thanks. I forgot Iβve used that joint before, on my bench drawers. Nice easy joint. Great for Baltic birch drawers. Nice quick construction for cabinet drawers if you donβt care about bragging π. Going to use these on my entertainment centre rather than the finger joints I was planning. Dove tails take too long.
When you were starting your vertical cuts I started to wince bc I saw where it was going (
Having lost two fingers myself on a table saw), then you stopped and I was able to breath again
Clamp a hand screw clamp to the board n Have that ride on the top of the fence, no need to change out the throat plate
Seasonal expansion is not a problem with plywood. Why not get some extra reinforcement by gluing the bottom panel to the box?
If using Blum under mount slides the first cut would have to be 1/2β from the fence
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Awesome thanks
Great video
i have oak vernear its about 1/ inch can i do that with these with 1/4 inch please reply thank you wayne
Great video, thank you. I’m making dresser drawers, which will have pull forces on the long face. I will need to swap the end grain machining steps. I may make a custom throat plate to get even more support for the end grain work.
Great method for drawer assembly. Easy, strong and clean look. Next time I built drawers I might use it. Thank you.
Wunnerful, just what I was looking for.
I didnβt see a check for square. Also I would suggest that you take a 1/16β off each measurement for the bottoms.
Good information but once you applied the clue and clamps you should check for squareness. Other then that good job π
Thank you for the nice trick hint.
IN return, that fence jig might help you to have right "board" to extend fence all time ready .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNYWG0Mj8E .. and it might come handy not just for drawers.
Iβve used this method to build drawers using a router for the slots and rabbits.
Donβt have a table saw as I donβt do much woodwork but do have a router and table my dad gave me.
Really enjoy your teaching style, thanks
Great video!!! Thanks for sharing!
Very cool and easy way for drawers. Great video π
So if your boards are 3/4 inch thick, and your boards are set 1/4 inch from the fence, when you cut the rabbit on the end pieces, won’t you wind up with a 1/4 inch dado down the middle of the ends?
I do nearly the same method, except I use 1/2" plywood for the bottoms, rabbit all 4 edges to 1/4". I hate 1/4 plywood it’s junk and the drawer bottoms sag if there is any load in them. Nice video!!!
Love the simplicity of this build.
Splendidly to see Woodglut have new plans which helped me save some money and energy for this construction.
Hate standing boards on the saw if I can avoid it. In this case it would be simple to cut that second cut after moving the fence in to the blade then flipping the boards and feeding them through flat like the others.
you might say only but people do not always have a dado, i have a dado and i use my router more than a dado just for the simple fact i can set saw up for all my rips, and the router for all my grooves for drawers
Can you use this method with a 1/4 router bit?
I love your accent x
Your work is second to none may God continue to bless you and your family great work bottom line