Suggestions for making a drawer organizer

Here's one simple concept .

Sam Allen has another in

And you can make them in layers--the fourth project in

shows how to do it.

Sounds like an "operator problem". :)

Check out the link below ... they're very intuitive to make if you don't want to buy, or buy a set and use them as guides to do your own:

Thomas G. Marshall wrote: | All the drawers in my kitchen are without organization and look | like an arial view of Dresden during the war. | | Non of the flatware drawer organizers that I've found seem to do | the trick, and I would love to make one of my own. I've worked | with wood at the fundamental level only, construction level | repairs, and gluing and clamping chairs, and everything else "easy". | | Are there any suggestions, save for hiring a carpenter for | customized drawers?

Make your own organizer trays. Lay 'em out to hold what you have in the way you want. I've built several designs out of 1/4" and 1/2" maple and found it to work well. For a really unimaginative simple design, follow the link below...

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

Look at this link:

You lay out your pattern, measure the lengths, and just put them in the drawer. I laid mine out so the tension of the boards against one another would hold them in place. It worked for a while and then eventually they would move and mess up. So I went back and reinstalled them using a hot glue gun to hold them together, which has worked now for over a year.

A hot glue gun is much faster than cutting slots or dados.

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

A neat shop is a sign of a sick mind.

Of course; I said "concept" because my real shop bears no resemblance.