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Jul/Aug,1984

ABourrr{ls IssuE.As the y€ars go by,I'm

becomins more and more fascinated with

the detailsof cabinetmakins.In fact, this

fascination has changed my whole ap-

proachto sone aspectsI usedto dread.

Building dmwers, for exanple.

Buildinsa drawer is not aneasytask.A

dmwer has to be strons, it has to fit a

certainopeni.gin thecabin€t,and it hasto

operate smoothly.This requies a lot of

planning, andit meansa Lotof detailshave

io be worked out so ihe drawerc and the

cabinetwork together.

The more cabinetsand the more draw-

ers I build, the more I've cometo realize

ihat I'm not just building the sa.nebasic

drawer over and over again. With each

new cabinet, comes new drawers with

their orvn problems and desigrchallenges.

In fact, as I was looking back in the past

issuesof Woods'lill, I realizedthat notwo

drawers were built the sameway. That's a

lot of different ways to build draw€rs.

Question: So s'hy are you goins on and

on about drawers?It soundslike you're

tn'ins to make a point. W}tai is it?

Ifyou'r€ goins to build a cabinet with a

dmwerinit, you haveto plaD ahead. Take

the chest of drawers shown in this issuefor

smoothaction of the $ooden guides. All

that extm work to nake wooden guides

quickly melts into pure satisfaction.You

nodand say, "That f€els just nght."

cHr,\cEs. Alongwith the chestof draw-

ers, we also built a night siand, a watl

minor and a headboad. These fou.r proj-

ectsrepresentthe fi$t timewe'vesho$na

gloup of pieces with ihe sarnedesigr and

intendedto be used as a set.

However, as we w€re workjng or the

desisn, one thing becameclear: The!€ is no

way to please€veryone.

The chest of dmwers was the fiIst pi€ce

we built. As soonas it was complete, the

suggestionsbegan. "It's nicebut it should

be wider . . . it really needstwo snall

drawe$ at the top . . . it should have one

or naybe h{o nore large drawers . . - it

should be built out of oak instead of

mahogany

All ofthese are legitimate suggestions.

And any of them could easily be incor-

porated into the chest $ithout mucl

houble at all.

tn fact, that's why we show as many of

details for building each pmject as we can

in hopesthat you don'tfollow thern.By

that I meanthat we includeall the details

about a project to provide €noushinfor-

nation soyou can chanse the desien to suit

you-rneeds. Add another large drawer. Or

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WOODSIIITH (SSN 01644114)

Editor

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Te€hnical

Tbere'sno way to build tbis ch€st with

out lirst knowins exactly how th€ drawers

will be constructedand nounted. Wllich

means you hale to desisn the chesti:om

the insideout.

Theinterdependenceofthe d|alvelsand

th€ chest involves dozens of detailsthat

have to b€ sorked out. Like a same of

chess,each detaildetemi.es theonesihat

follo{ and have to be planned rv€ll in

is pubLishsd

One change that's easy to make and can

produce drarnatic results is to build these

Fojects out of a different wood. We used

nahogany, but think of the differcnce in

appearance if th€ chest were built out of

oak, with rift sa n pieces for the dmwer

fronts. Or rnaple wjth spalted maple

drawer fronts. Or the headboard bad a

burledven€eron the center panel.

Feel free to change the desisn, the

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MEr,rL oR wooD? Among th€ details for

thedesig!of the drawen, onedecisionwas

critical for det€rmining the overall ap-

proachfor buildins the chest.

I wanted to build drawen without using

anyhardware.No drawer pulls. No metal

suide system.Thisdecisionwasbasedona

little quirk that mosi woodworkers hav€: if

give. a choice they'll ffgur€ out a way to

usewoodrather than metal - no matter

how much more work it involves.

True, by avoiding metal hardware

there's a littl€ extra work and a lot nore

plannins. But it makesthe whole project

an interesiing design chalenge . . . and

certainlymore interestingto build.

The result is a chestwith drawersthat

are a pure pleasur€ to open. As you open

each drawer, your finger-tips fii comfort-

ablyinthe covesonthe bottomedseofthe

dnwer front. Then as the d6ter slides

open, you immediatelyfeel the silky

lmin a recent rssue.

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A NEWIWIsI

In Woodsmith No. 33, you complained

about the problems of loading paper in

paln sandels. Th€re's a simpletdck ihat

will alleviateabout 997. of the problem,

andall you needis an ordinan' pencii.

After cutting the paper to size,lay lh€

pap€r abmsiveside down. Then Iay lhe

pencil oD one of the edses that will b€

clampedin ihe sander,androll the edseof

the sandpaperaroundthe pencil.

When the paper is released,it $ill

spdng backwiih a nicesemi-cicule up

sard cur!€ on the edge. Then curl ihe

oppositeedseof the sandpaper.

To loadthe sandpaper,sinply raisethe

clampspring and inset lhe first cuNed

edgeofth€p3per.Smooththe pap€racross

Firsl, clampa pieceofscrap stockto the

lable of the drill press, and drill a hol€

that's €xactly the same diameter as th€

outsidediarneterofthe do$el. I drill this

hote abouttwo thirds the waythroushthe

ihicknessof the block.

Thaadrantageto this systeb is that the

scrcen in no ilay effecls the air flow from

the fan, yet it prevents large debis frorn

fallingintothe rouler. I've usedlny router

this way for 1'l y€ars, and hale had no

rn - DR|trHorE

Stercn,lahnsoi

DesMonles, Iorn

SCiAP WOOD CORN'RCIAMPS

Not loo long ago, I had to make a large

numb€r of Lazy Susan shelv€s. E!ell,'

thing w€nt togetherjust fine until I real

izedI was producing a mountainofcut-off

cornen that were taking oler my shop. i

hated th€ thought of feedingall thos€cul

offs into my wood heaier,so I decidedto

comeup with somewal to useth€ scraps.

Then keepingthe block clampedto the

drili press bble, renove the bit from the

chuckand insert the dowelin the hole.By

k€epinsthe block clampedin its original

posiiion, the drill pr€ss chuck is auto

maticallycent€red over the shoft dowel.

Dillins a holethat's perfecuycentered

on the €nd of the dowel simply requfes

chuckingthe conect sizeddll bit in lhe

drill press,and drillins ih€ dow€I.

ROII EDGEOI SANDPA?FR

Pati.k Wanzr

Es.ond.id.a,Catifotllid

FIAEIGLASSSCREEN

I'd liketo shareanideaI haye lor th€Sears

roulers. In Woodsztth No. 31 and other

issues,you've meniionedlhat debis fall-

ins into the S€ars router may have been

oneof the causesfor the fa. bladesbreak-

ing off, and damagingthe moror

I too own a Seals 1'l, H.P router that's

mounted upsidedown on a rcuier tabie.

Bui before I mounted it on rhe rout.r

the pad and you'll find the other edse

curLingaround the pad, pointing direclly

whereiheclampwill open.Raiseth€clamp

and lush ilr the edge. Then tishten th€

paper a$oss the pad, and release the

Finally,I cane on the idea ofcombining

the coner cul offs with lwo C clampsto

form a colner clanp. The corner clamps

canbe used to squareup case$ork, or to

just clamplogelher the cone.s on a mi

Satn cLHathatd!

Srd6uiv Mossdc/zxsetls

A HOTTIP

t r€adlhe articl€in Woodsrrill No. 33on

sbarpeningtoolswith astationarldisk a.d

belt sander This doess'ork well, bul . . .

Pieasetell your r€ad€rsto be sure Lhat

allihe sawdustisrernovedfromth€ sand€r

before it's used to sharpentools.Themetal

sparksfrom ure grinding aciioncan siart

tbe sawduston firc.

To makethe clanps, I slued t$o ofthe

rl/l thickcornercut offstoCethertoproduce

a 1%" ihick bracket. Then I bored t\lo

holesfor thc C-clamppads,andcut off lhe

shafp cornelson the endsofthe bracket.

l'inally, the edses are t mmed and

sandedso theJ're smooth and pe.fectly

squar€. (Iflhesiock usedfor ihehz) susan

is squareto begin sith, haling to squarc

the clamps.an be eliminared.)

Peil'! HdItoil

WaLhdLld, Natth Dakotn

J. R. Hackenbet!

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DRIILINO DOWEI5

In woadsmith No. 33, you shosed a

nelhod ofmarking th€ ce.ter point onthe

end of long dos'els that works well. For

short dowels, I use a sligltly different

methodthat not only finds cenler, but also

assuresthehole is drilledparall€lwiih rhe

table, I protectedthe motor with a small

pieceoffiberylassscr€enthat coveredth€

air jntAke directly abovethe fan.

To attachthe scrcento the motor hous-

ins, apply a small amouni of super glue

whcre the scre€nand the motor housins

comein conta€twith eachother

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Bachelo/s Chest

CLEAN, CONTEMPORARY

FOUR.DMWER

CHEST

This chestof drawercis built

exactlythe opposjteol the

way jt was designed. That

maynotmakemuchsense, but

that's oneofthe pmblemsyou

facewhenyou set out to build

achestofdrawen - you have

tod€sign

rve wantedto

build it with drawen that are

a little out of the ordinary.

There's no hardwareon the

draw€$ - nopulls,nometal

guides. Instead,thesedraw-

€rs ar€ designedwith a con-

c€aledcoveas a finger pul,

anda suide systemthat's

madecompletely of wood.

In orde.to makeall of this

$'ork, the cabinethasto take

jnto account

t.ue of this

thecovedlip de-

signon the drawer ftonts, as

well as the methodusedto

mountthe drawersin the

cabinet,and the final size of

the drawers.ln other words,

the cabinetis designedto fit

in morcdetail in

thearticleonbuildi.g drawers

thatbeginson page 13.Once

the dn\rers are desiped and final mea-

surements are det€mined for the cabinet,

I stafted work by building the two sides of

the samepositionon both sides.

RouTcRoovDs.To rout the gmoves,

clamp anau-\iliary fence to the plywood

and use a hand-heldrouter with a y4"

straight bit, see Fig. 2.

I started with the

TXECAIIN'T 5IDIs

The sid$ of the chest consist of pb'wood

pa.€ls with haldwood edsins on the lmnt

andback€dses,s€eFig. 1. The ptlsood

panels also have a series of %" glooves

routedon the insidefacefor the cabinet's

web f.am€s. (These frames are used to

connectthe cabinetsides,and they also

suppot the drawerc.)

cm stDDs.The first step is to cut the

pllvood panels (A) to size. The length ol

these panels is determin€dby the spacing

neededfor the drawers and the web

fram€s. This work out to 32r%6". (The

details of this measuement are discussed

in the d€wer articl€ on page 13.)

As for tle width of the plt'wood panels,

ihey should be 16Ys"wide. However,

mther than cutti.s the pb"wood to this

]vidth, I cut it a little norc than double-

Mde (32%") so I could rout the srooves for

I started with the top groove.This

groove shouldbe r%i' downfrom the top

edgeof the plywood, seedeta in lig. 2.

(Atter this measurcmentto equalthe

thickn$s of the stockfo. the webframe.)

Th€ position of the next four grooves is

critical because

hardwood edgingstrips, seeFiss. 4 and5.

Thetongue onthe top edgeis usedlater to

attach the top panel.

Thesetongres will fit into sooves that

are routed in the edgingstriF. To sauge

the thickness of the tongues,ffrct rout a

groovein a test piecewith a %" straight

bit. Then the tonguesare cut on a router

table to fft this groove.

Set up the rout€r table with a %"

shaight bit to rout %"-widerabbets on

both facesof th€ pb'wood to produce the

%"-lonctongues,seeFig. 3. Adjust th€

depth of cut until the thicknessof the

tonguefits the groove in the test piece.

DEcoRATIvESHoULDER.

they deternine the sizeof

the openingsfor the dnwers.

To produce the correct height for the

dBver openin$, rout thesefour grooves

so th€y're exactly 77s"apart, measuring

from thetopof each gmove, seeFig. 1.

After the srooves are routed, rip the

double-widepanel in half and trin it to

fom two panels,each16Ys"wide.

RouI r{)NcUES.The rext stepis to rout

tongles onth€ front, back, andtop edges

of eachpll.woodpanel.The iongues onthe

ftont and back €dgesare usedto attach

After the

tongresarc cut, I addeda yl6"-wid€ shoul-

deronthe front, back,andtop eds€softhe

p\.wood to set off the panel in the faame,

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first and

thendesisnthe cabinet

thedmwers

Thisis €specially

chestbecause

Thesedesigrconsidentions

arediscussed

the web ftamesin on€ pass, seeFig. 2.

This assur$ the g"ooves a.e rcut€d in

see['igs. .l and 5. Rout this shoulder,1i'

i'meand !t deepoDtheoutsnlefaceofthe

phalood panels, seeI'is. jl.

THEEDGINGSTRIPS

)io$ the sohd\rood edgimgstdls can be

add€dto thc fronl rnd ba(k edges of the

lll$ood sides. All of thesestlips are cut

tuom;/.1 stock (lli,i thick actual).

B.lcli rllcl\c. Thc brcli edgilrg-itfilri

(C), are ipped lo \idth io the\'\'e just

slightll (r,.') \Lider than !he thicknessof

thc pl)1roodsides,see ()oss Secti.niin

tig. L This extfa Fi.lth jrrolidcs.iusl

enoughmarcrlsothesrflaccofthestrilx

crn bt plnDedand saD.le.ldo\r ferlectll

flush\ith the plJitood.

Then thesr str'ilr! nle cur to leDgthso

lhetLr cqLralt0

r'l)

llon thebot

toDrofthe tlllrood pan.l to thr shouldrrof

the tongxeon thc to! e(lgc,icc t'ig. l.

RoLTcltoo\ l).After the stifs are cutto

sizc,rout a tl \ rj gloove on the e.lgeof

the ,.t p to matchthe loDgucoDthc back

edge01the pll\ood !uel. see1ig. l I

routed this gfoot oD the router iable,

makins sureit was fositioDed sothe ertra

lri' iD Ni.lth Nas slicking p aborc lhc

o!lsni. fac of thc plt\rood.

R,\BBEr

thedistaD.e

IoRBlch.A]so..ut ar),r,i'\iii.

bl f; .lee| rabbeton the brck edsr oflhe

cdgiDgsl ! for the 1'pl\'\rood back,see

l'ig. 5. Shof \ote: I userla tablesaF

rather thar the router trblc lo cut this

rabbetbe.ausethc sa\ pfo(lucesa clean€r

edgcalongthe shouklerof the fnbbet.

FRotr.'r

rr)cr\(:. l'he ljont e.lging stlil)

(Bl is litped h' Niile an(lcul lo the srmc

lengthasthcbacli shif, sct l'ig. L TheD a

Lii \ r"," groole is routerlor the iDsi.lefa.e

to nt the iongre on the fiurt cdgc of the

plltood paDcl, scc l'ig. 1.

This groole is positioDedeaa.lll the

,qamedisiance

!". l

rvrol 6i6oiE

iiom theoutsi{lc'odgcasthe

g1ooreon th€ backe(igingnriP. (Thrl is,

$ thecilgcis f,r' aborc ihe suriaceoflhe

plJirood.) Silce this gloole is nr e\actll

the $me position,it canbe cut usiDgtho

same setup on the router lable.

1sSErlBL\.Finall). glLrcthe edgiDg

st|ips Lothe ioDgueson the plr'\tood. Be

sure the top end of oachcdgntg sldtr is

flushirilh theshouklefolthetongueor the

iop edgeofthe si.le,seel igs t and t.

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