Check out my progress on my first table with a drawer in ABPW.
I still need to make the freaken drawer. I'm leaning towards a sliding dovetail for the drawer front because I have no dovetail jig. And no I don't wanna cut them by hand.
Anybody have any experience with sliding dovetails for drawers? I am either gonna do a stopped sliding dovetail or a full SD.
Just a couple of alternate options:
A pinned rabbet joint to attach the drawer front to the sides. Easy, strong, and nice looking from the side. Use a contrasting wood for the pin, or a metal like brass and expoxy the pins in.
A locking joint, like a combination of a rabbit and tongue and groove pictured here, easy to do on a router table:
FWIW ...
I was leaning toward the stopped sliding dovetail on the router table until I figured out that for one side I would have to do a climb cut. Unless I reposition the fence.
Your suggestion for the pinned rabbet joint sounds attractive, but the only other wood I have laying around the shop is red oak and poplar(yuck). I could make a treck to woodcraft and buy a small stick of something. ebony?
ah, c'mon, real men can do climb cuts!!
dave
stoutman wrote:
Where are you located. Perhaps someone would loan you a dt jig for your drawer. If you are close to me I will.
-- Bill Rittner R & B ENTERPRISES Manchester, CT
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Ya know, Ive found that if you keep your measurements equal with a joint like that it makes the setups a lot simpler. I usually just do 1/4" if working with 3/4 material. Just a thought.
Thanks, but I'm in Va. If you FedEx it overnight I will pay for the shipping and promise to mail it back to you when I'm done. I promise... : )
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