Just what I needed to see. Very well explained. I never thought of adding extra wood strips to the drawers, that is genius. I have this tricky, handmade, not square, old Japanese ironing / sewing cabinet I am restoring and it badly needs drawers. Mounting tiny glides to this fragile piece is a labor of love! Not just one but two cabinets! Each one needs 4-5 drawers. I completely restored them, stripped, sanded, re-varnished, hardware added, and now drawers. Its looking great though! So nice to bring old things back to life. I feel like the God of Furniture restoration, breathing new life into them.

This is a wonderful tutorial. I've been dealing with the same drawers for 30 years. You either need to come to my house and do this or I'll just have to redo my kitchen.

I am going to have to watch this video a few times tomorrow. Lucky me, my wife has instructed me to fix our 1980s kitchen drawers.

Thanks for this video! I have cabinets from the 70s. And while they were built beautifully with nice hardwood, the top drawers are made of plastic. They have a center rail at the top that the drawer hangs from. And I guess I shouldn’t complain, since they’ve lasted nearly 50 years. But it’s time to rebuild them, and this video is pretty much exactly the scenario that I have to deal with. Thanks for the help, from one pawpaw to another!

Thank you😭 I was arguing with to the side of the guides. I’ll place the extra wood to the drawers. Thank you X a million 🥳

great video helped me alot with my 1960 cabinets that needed alot of work

Thanks for the video! This maybe the solution to upgrade my slides to a stronger soft close set

Thank you so much!!!

Thanks you very mush! This video vas very helpful and will save me time and frustration.

Amazing and thank you for uploading this

Great job

A perfect video for the "I'm gonna go ahead and..." drinking game. 😁

thank you

a nice work father paw , i am new suber from algeria in north africa

Love to learn from someone’s experience. Thanks for the video. If I may, if you have paint stir sticks those are 1/8 inch thick. I’ve checked the ones i got from Lowe’s, HD and Dunn Edwards with calipers and they were dead on 1/8. I used them to shim up a drawer cut mistake I made, that how I know.

Another thing I like about your solution is that a little paint on the side of the drawers will make it look like it came that way from the factory.

very helpful video. In my case, the drawers width is the same size as the opening, in your video at the end you added wood on the sides of the drawer to increase the width, what should i do in my case?

Excellent video. My drawers are actually too wide. I only have a total of 3/8" width. I need 1" to install the new drawer rollers. This is because my drawers are older and have a center guide rather than existing rollers. How do I handle this problem? Make the openings wider? Or make the width of the new 3" wood rails wider? Thanks

What are those old school brackets called?

Thank you Paw Paw!

It is a great

I'm replacing drawer slides on older cabinets with soft close slides (rear bracket mount) and the slides rubbed a grove down both sides of the drawer after install. Is there a correct way to solve my clearance issue? The slides require a 1/2" on each side, I have that when measuring the inside of the face frame, but the outer part of the slides still rub the drawer box making it hard to close/operate. Should I plane the drawer sides a little? Can I sand the inside of the face frame on each side to gain 1/16" for more clearance?

I have opposite problem. drawer does not have enough space to make up that 1" needed on each side to accomodate the roller slide. Any suggesions for that one?

Are you securing the back support piece to the wall or cabinet?

Great Video. Thank you. So what was your MOS? ("P-Pop" 11B/11A)

Hello, how did you release the old drawer to come out?

Why is one of the sides of the drawer roller different then the other? I have those same rollers and one side is more curved to catch the wheel. Please help. Thanks

I have a question I have the same exact bottom rollers but they catch halfway and my drawer won't close. Can I put my screws all the way towards the back. They are flush but they keep sticking where the screws supposed to go. Can u help me?

Paw Paw's Workshop would this technique also work on kitchen cabinets from the 1950's? I'm really trying to save the original cabinets.

I know this video has been posted 4yrs ago. And was wondering if that exact kitchen cabinets doors hinges can be replaced with soft close ones -_-

Did the customer not want the better ball bearing glides?

I went to Lowe’s and they didn’t know what CA glue or accelerator was. Can you reexplain?

How do you measure?

OK so we are not going to show the whole process ?? what about screwing in the back

Why not install ball bearing drawer sliders instead of rollers? Rollers are so out of date. 😂

Out withe the old in with new old

These drawer slides are horrible. The screw head might jam on the roller. If the weight is too heavy, the rollers slide instead of rolling so it eats away and becomes difficult to push/pull.

Mine is 70s and don’t have any rollers at all. The wood just slides and scrapes against each other. I can redo this and make it look great on the outside but ima have to call a cabinet guy to fix this bs first.

why do all that work and put cheap $2.00 hardware back in? why not upgrade to real ball bearing style drawer slides with soft close etc...? especially with the weight of most kitchen drawers being over full with silverware and utensils. I think I would have gone the extra mile and spent the money for good quality slides.