Excellent work and I don't know anybody that explained it like you did.

Thank you so much for this video! I just built my first 2 drawer boxes with this method and have confidence to use it for the rest of my kitchen cabinet projects.

Love your step by step instruction.

This is a great method. Fast and tidy. Thanks for sharing

How refreshing to see somebody using common sense to build the drawer. Very nicely done and it was obvious. to see your skill and talent. Well done, Brother!

Beautiful work I love how you explained it...

Excellent walkthrough and break down of your process! I learned alot and will definitely apply these methods to my own process!! Thank you for sharing this videos!!

Your dove tail drawer was indeed beautiful and clearly you have some mad crazy skills....BUT....This is a fabulous video for those of us who are new to building our own cabinets and drawers. You did a fantastic job of explaining what this drawer was good for, and why you would use it. Please IGNORE the arrogant, idiotic comments that some people posted in an effort to make themselves feel better about the methods that they use for a DIY. I hope you keep posting videos for the everyday person who is not making heirlooms. Most of us are just redoing our kitchens, and other living spaces and just need a strong drawer for storage. By the way, I did build 8 of these drawers for a pantry cabinet and they work perfectly and each holds 75 pounds....THANK YOU!

Well done. Enjoyed the video. 💪😎

Encouraging. Selecting the correct thickness of the parts is the key-and well done here-so that one part strengthens the next part and the result is exponentially greater strength than the individual parts. This is a well thought out way of making drawer boxes, it seems too simple to be true. Do you know how hard it is to do 'simple?' Simple actually requires considerable skill.

Your field dressing on your finger is a classic !

Great instructions! One thing I never understand is how can people work with inches and get precision without having a melt down? I measure 5 1/2 and 3/4, -1/8 of an inch. 😂

This is so much easier than I have been making drawers. Thanks for this video!

That's a very good design. quite simple drawer and seems very strong. 👍 I have watched 100 drawer build videos , IMO yours is most suitable for a beginner like me. I'm gonna build a cabinet with some drawers to hold my hand tools at home. I'm not a woodworker but a mechanic, years of experience has given me some degree of intuition to gauge strength in a design. Thanks so much for sharing.

I made the tool drawers in the back of my van with glue and brads, they’ve had heavy use for 3 years and have held up brilliantly

I would like to see the process for applying the finish. I would also like to learn about sourcing the maple plywood material and/or good birch plywood. Thanks for a good video. Very helpful.

Great Job 😉👍🏽🪚📐✏️🔨For Edge Bands You Can Use Aluminum Foil To Cover The Iron So No Glue Sticks To It If It’s The Only One In The House 🤣

Ty!

I’ve had good luck with pocket screws on my drawers. I use 5/8” poplar for the box & 1/4 plywood for the bottoms. All prefinished material with titebond melamine glue.

Great video. Not so sure it's saving money that's the biggest take away as is saving time and aggravation! If using 1/2" thick sides is length of the drawer fronts the same 1 11/16" less then the opening?

I have made about a half dozen kitchens, and all of my drawers have been built just like this and I have never had a problem. Until, that is, my most recent one. I decided to use double sided prefinished maple this time..... thinking I was smarter. Problem is, I cut the hundred+ pieces to be simple butt joints, but with the double-sided finish one of the surfaces isn't virgin wood and the wood glue simply doesn't work. This would have made a rabbet joint a much better option. Instead, I had to painstakingly sand through the finish on each end of about 50 pieces, being careful just to sand the 1/2" end of the long side of the butt joint and no further into the visible area of the box. Yes, I tried other adhesives....and the ends didn't justify the means. I trust wood glue, I didn't trust these adhesives....especially after gluing together some test scrap piece joints and watching them break pretty easily. Moral of the story - if you don't have prefinished sheet goods this method works splendidly. If you do, I'd recommend a rabbet joint so that the pre-finished piece is rabbeted and accepts the wood glue much better. Wood glue is truly some amazing stuff, IF it's used wood-on-wood. It was helpless on these joints and simply flaked right off as it couldn't penetrate the fibers and apparently has very little bonding strength to other non-wood surfaces. The bottoms were 1/2" as well and I was content just using a bunch of brad nails with some 8 gauge 1 1/2" narrow head trim screws on some of the wider drawers. If I had to sand off the entire 1/2" perimeter of each bottom I'd still be sanding.

Nice video....1 question ..You used 3/4" ply front and back but when you screwed the slide brackets to the 1/2" bottom you mentioned that they were 5/8" from the front edge. Why not 3/4"?

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Love the videos. 1 question tho when you make the drawers for pullouts that don’t get a drawer front what do you do to make the front of the drawer a little more attractive?

Jason @ Bourbon Moth does a cool video on testing all the joinery methods for strength and was surprised to see that dovetails weren't stronger

I'd love to know what brand your belt sander is . I have a small shop too and I am shopping for a sander like yours. and great video ..thanks

Can I use 1/4 inch on the bottom ? 1/2 feels too heavy

Is it okay to use 1 1/4 inch nails instead of 1 1/2 inch nails? The nail gun we have only allows up to 1 1/4 inch nails. Thanks!

Dovetails and box joints are objectively better in every way, but it's not necessary and it requires expensive machinery to make them. You gotta be making a lot of drawer boxes to justify it. I used make all kinds of arguments for why a jointed drawer was unnecessary, but then started making them and would never go back. Assembly easier, visual quality is better and actual time it takes isn't way more. Looks like you've got a good shop and if you're making lots of drawer boxes, I highly suggest integrating a platform to make a jointed box. You won't regret it.

How much you charge per lineal foot?

What about finishing the drawers?

this made me realize how lucky i am to have a dovetail machine

Use a push stick

113/4 and add a 16 it’s 11 and 13/16 😅

Great and informative video, but I'm surprised you still have thumbs... made me nerveous pushing through like that

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So basically you make flat-pack cabinets but you put them together for people. Oops- even flat-pak uses dado's and finger joints, so basically you make high school shop cabinets. Er- I think they even teach better craftsmanship in high school shop....