Watch Robs 5 part Drawer Making Series, #1 is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLiHgtecnt-xcn0.html

I make hundreds of dividers and find a few practices that make it a lot easier. The depth of cut does not need to be exact half and half, it be slightly more, it will not be seen. If you use masking tape to gang the length parts together and cut the joint they will be the same. Do the same for the other width parts. My dividers are the thickness of the blade cut and it does not matter if you use a regular saw blade and the little "ears" are hidden. The same truth will be for your example. You make it a lot harder than it needs to be. The one thing is to make sure all the parts are the same thickness. Great show.

Really appreciate the precision and attention to detail.

Watching Rob think and work, while I’m working on flattening chisel backs on a 1K Trend. Peaceful.

Rob, you’re simply the best! Thanks for doing what you do.

Learned a new measurement unit today! The thickness of a shaving! 👍👍

Great instruction Rob. The attention to detail in a relaxed pace makes the entire lesson memorable. Learned a great deal on a project I would normally fly through. I become a better woodworker each time I watch. Thankyou

One fun thing to do while watching Rob's videos is to try and count the times Rob says "and then we'll go in..." or "and then we'll come in..." . What is the difference between going in and coming in? We'll never know. I'm just kidding around of course. I've learned so much from your videos Rob, thank you for all that you do for the woodworking community!

It so awesome watching you work! It’s so motivational and gets me pumped up to get out in the shop and get to work!! 👏🏼👍🏼👊🏼

Patients and Presision to detail definitely wins

Your videos are incredibly helpful. Thank you, Rob!

You could also fit the assembly using felt on the ends like a humidor divider.

Cigarette paper (rolling paper) is generally .001" in thickness and many old time pattern makers and machinists would use it as a quick & dirty gauge for spacing items. Many tool chests get discovered with a few packs of papers tucked into the drawers-- sometimes people wonder if grandpop was a "stoner" because of the rolling paper-- Nope... He was just accurate and efficient, too. Good video. Kosman Komiko!

I believe in the US it is called dumpster diving the Submarines were being decommissioned at Garden Island Naval Dockyard. The Joiners and the Shipwrights wanted to make it into tables for the yard but were told by the managers to cut it into small sections and put it in the bin. Some went into the bin but a large part of it disappeared. One young joiner (3rd generation) made some beautiful furniture from it and kept the numbers that were brandied onto the boards but not on the face side. I believe the wood I had came from the Ovens each of the Subs were named after a river in Britain. It makes me sick to see someone waste something rather than let someone benefit from it and in this case our heritage would have been all the greater. Had management had the idea the Dockyard would have had some remarkable furniture Have a good day Rob and thanks for all your shows

Love watching the problem solving thought process, although the thickness of a shaving measurement is only something a few could reliably use. lol

Thanks for all the hard work and instruction !!! I would love to know how long some of your projects take in real time sure takes me longer than 13min52sec. To make anything ha ha and your boys and crew do a amazing job filming, editing, etc. Is a ton of work Great job !!!!

I have a saddle square that I use for transferring lines around edges and faces. The fun part is that the square is a test join for that exact joint I built a torsion box trap door for the cellar, joined the interior skeleton that way. The practice piece has always remained dead square so it's perfect for transfers. It is in the form of a white pine, equal armed cross, 6 inches square.

‘Cosman Kumiko’ 👍

Your videos are a must see! Thanks!

I've recently learned the drill bit technique to make the perfect slots for the dividers. Set the stop to the outside edge, than use a drill bit the same size as blade kerf to offset.

My wife is going to start discovering dividers in every drawer in the house.

“It’s just shop furniture.” Ha ha ha! Mesmerizing as always.

Thanks again I have some Oregon Pine in my shop that came from the Oberon Class submarines and have been thinking of what to do with it. The planks were greased and used to slide the batteries into place.

thanks , U R Great teacher

Thanks

Great video, Rob~! I just used this technique for dividers in a shadow box. It turned out great~!

Used spruce for drawers and dividers. Didn't realize how much spruce expands and shrinks so much in an open air shop. I make and use comb style dividers to separate rasps and files.

Fun project! I enjoy custom fitting custom dividers drawers to drawers. I have been using a CNC router to cut foam for each item. This would be a way to dress up the look with the foam in between the wood dividers. I'm going to try on my next drawer.

“So there’s a simple and easy way to ….. all you need is every tool in the shop, paper, business cards, tooth picks, gum, paper clips” 😂 love you Rob but this was CRAZY busy!

Excellent video, as always

I’m anxiously awaiting your Bench Flattening videos! 🙂

Love you approach and professionalism Rob. But seriously mate you need to move to metric, that inches and fractions is doing my head in.

I often thought of myself as a loner...a true "wood freak", if you will. Then I watched Rob pare micro-fibers of wood with his chisel, just to get a flawless half lap joint on two tiny pieces of wood, in an obscure drawer he may only go into a few times a year. Then I felt much more normal

I don’t know what it is, but I find that Shooting Board oddly satisfying…

Nice video. I need to make some of these up for my workshop & kitchen. I have to say what torture it is for the ears to hear the imperial measuring system. 16 eighteents minus 14 32nds x 9 fifteenth of an inch. How do you do it? I'm from the UK where we are still half & half imperial/metric & I do use imperial measurements when doing large projects, but as soon as I'm working on anything detailed that requires a level of precision or any calculation, it has to be metric. So much easier to work with.

What species of wood is the one in the middle that looks like red marble? It’s beautiful!

What if you roughed out to the boards cut the slots and then playing the boards to fit the slot would that be quicker and easier

"I put them in a bit of order" See what you did there Rob 👍😁

I've watched a fair number of your videos. You do incredibly fine work but OMG you are building shop cabinets. Set up the dado blade a giter done. I hope your mrs. gets that much attention.

9:13 I really love that whispy sound!

Most helpful! Do I spy an APDS round lurking in the background...?!!

1/8 to 1/4 dado every half inch or so on center not glued in so you can change it as needed. Add or reduce dividers.

nice

Either we got a new camera man or someone has learned the need for close ups......thanks Rob and crew!

I have a question...Why did you not cut the notches for both horizontal and vertical pieces at the same time? It seems that it would elevate alignment errors. Thanks again for your videos. Enjoy watching them.

I used to always put dividers in stopped dados to keep them fixed. I think I'll do them this way from now on since the extra work is too hard and unnecessary. Having the dividers fixed in place also makes it harder to clean out the bottom of the box.

What did you mean “I want the bevel on the inside” when you flipped the piece and cut lines at 1/2 height? 14:52 mark in video

Elegant

An adjustable stop that allows micro adjustments would simplify that a lot.

I hope this question isn't as silly as it seems to me. I tried to reclaim wood from a pallet and also from a bed. The wood just seems too dry or something it just splinters. Is some wood just too low a grade or too old or dry to use or is it my skill is not developed

Pack of cards.

You could also fit the assembly using felt like you would a humidor divider

Great video… something tells me you like Lee Valley

Rob, you took longer to cut those slots on the table saw than by hand (after editing). Years of experience! :-)

Rob, good video. I would use the kerfmaker to set the width of the notches, it saves a lot of mucking about. Also is that a repair on the back edge of the dovetailed drawer at 1.25 and is that face piece some sort of burl?

38:05 If Rob pulls a hair out of his head....😆

Too cheap to spend $120 on a joinery blade for the table saw, so I picked up a TCG melamine/laminate blade on sale. It left corners that needed clearing for a year and then I had it sharpened, but told the person sharpening that I was going for a flat top grind. That made the corners a lot smaller and easier to trim. It's out for the second sharpening now, should be pretty close to perfect. With 80 teeth, it works really well cross-cutting joints in hard woods.

I don't understand the table saw safety disclaimer. Use the saw however you see fit, i really don't care, but you tout all of these videos as educational. And I can't imagine that in your Purple Heart Project classes you're teaching the students like this. Surely more than a few come to you with fully or partially missing fingers or limbs. Don't take it the wrong way - I've learned a ton from your channel and I'll keep learning as long as you're teaching. I'm not the safety police guy, but this particular case just strikes me.

Me continued... next I would decide on my distance between 1in 2in 3in cetera... using a box joint jig simply cut into all parts at whatever interval you decided... I would do probably every inch... once you make all Cuts in all parts... simply put parts together as necessary to accommodate space as necessary

I love the tightness you get side-side and front-back. Seems like it would be difficult to take the dividers out if your needs change later. Any tips how to get it out?

Using fingers as a push stick. I'll try that. Because it's a beginner video for beginners.

Could you state the brand and / or provide a link the the set of height setting gauge blocks used for the table saw blade height at 31:45 please? Thank you.

I can’t believe you got away with those rip cuts on the table saw with all your fingers.

Could you use one of those “kerf gauges” to set each cut thickness for the table saw? Don’t have one my self but have been intrigued enough with the samples I have seen online to make one like the Andy Klein version as an example… but as all the others have already stated loudly…. A threat example of how it is done well. Cheers from Western Australia.

Couldn't you set two stops, one on each end (left and right) of the piece so you could cut the notch for multiple pieces without having to stop and reset your one endstop. Then flip the divider and cut the other notch providing it's the same distance from the end.

Always use a push stick on the table saw when your fingers are within 6 in of the blade. Hooking the little finger over the fence does not provide an adequate level of protection.

Love the videos Rob! Sorry if you addressed this already or somewhere on your site, but can you state the reason why your planes cannot be shipped to the U.S.?

Feeler gauges too crude! Marking gauge as paring chisel ... astonishing! Next we'll find out that its cutting wheel is high speed steel and that there's a Wolverine sharpening jig for a CBN grinding wheel ... that was the ultimate in hand tool accuracy! ... and that was for a tool drawer! "Honey, close your eyes! The fit is better than in your wedding gift jewelry box!" Cheers, Farmer John, Ontario, Canada

What was that fine cross-cut saw at 43:26?

Rob, where do you get the headgear with the magnifiers in it? Thanks.

What marking knife is that?!

Rob, why don't you make a marking gauge with the wheel flipped? Then you could score the inside line without needing a panel gauge.

Oddly enough, I'd just been working on a tool chest and trying to decide the best way to make the dividers. Do you miter the ends of the sidewalls/perimeter pieces where they meet in the corners?

Rob, I am curious as to why you use the marking gauge instead of the square using the reference edge to transfer the marks across the top and on to the opposing face? Is there an issue with using the square or is it just preference .... as not all of us have the longer gauge

I was hoping you'd show how to glue or attached the dividers into the drawer more permanently, which is what I always have trouble with.

I know this is a "halved joint" :) im a bit OCD when it comes to my tool drawers too, hate it when stuff is loose to roll around. Everything is either divided off you like have done, or bigger tools have "holders", nearly like theyre french fitted :) Good camera work too Jake, some really good close ups :)

What sells fast?

Why don't you cut all the pieces and also the joints by the table saw ? Much faster and more accurate and even easier.

A fixed size divider like this is hard work to build and VERY inflexible. It's far better to use a series of rebates in full-width LeftRight dividers, then have a set of movable inserts for the other direction. That way, when things change (which always happens) you don't have to re-make the whole thing, you can just move the dividers around. If you use 1/8" ply for those small dividers, you can just use standard table saw blade cuts as the rebates.

Hi Rob, what kind of wood is the small drawer's face?

Another great video. What i've noticed about the back of your drawer box's you don't plane the drawer sides down to the backs after the glue up. Is there a reason for this, I know its only seen when you remove the drawer from the carcase.

Hahaha…your using your fingers as a push stick that close to the table saw blade is a huge no-no. But I do it all time too. 🥴🥴

Longest size is length, usually along the grain. The middle size is called Width and the thinnest size the thickness. Keep cosistant to enable learners to get the correct terminology. I started my woodwork learning 66 years ago and am still learning.

It's a little intimidating as a beginner too see 5 different tools used just to lay out a notch.

I love all of your work, but please America go metric and save my poor British brain.😄😄

Are GREY sofas out of fashion?

First comment!!! 😆🤣😂

There are much easier and quicker ways to do this on the table saw: use two stops, one on either side, to cut the slot to the dimension of the smallest one, then remove one stop and refine by adding paper or whatever to the remaining stop. Also, don't ever, ever arrange wood on the saw with it running.

Planed not playing

WARNING: Even if you ARE as experienced as Rob, use a push stick.

good vid but to much camera movement

You really don't need all this unless its high end. Just butt joint snug fitting and glue it well. I have and never come loose.

I think you can make it even more complicated...😩

Man I am sorry I could not watch anymore after about halfway through you need to productionize this let me help you out a bit... I would measure the width of my drawers and then the depth of my drawers whichever is the longer I would call that the length whichever is is shorter would call the width off the bat... Now set up your table saw for your depth of cut to be halfway into all parts length and width...

Please switch that machine off in between 😮

IMHO, that level of table-saw trimming/tuning is "ridiculous". There are SO many little steps involved, it's prone to failure. The video is interesting and gets a thumbs-up, but that parts gets a thumbs-down from me.

9:25 into the video; experienced or not! Rob should not be showing that!!

CONVALUTED, LESS TALK, JUST GET ON WITH IT.