Replacement Kitchen Drawers for 10 Dollars Each

My pressed cardboard 3 1/2 " tall drawers are worn out. I am replacing them with homemade lockjointed drawers that have 3/8" sides and backs and a 1/4" bottom. Materials are select pine sides and 1/4" birch plywood. Router table can be set for thicker side and back stock. Am incorrect saying rout right to left using the handheld. Right to left at the router table, left to right using the handheld.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Kitchen
• Cabinet
• Drawer
• Woodworking
• Dado
• LockJoint

[blondgirl522]

Apparently you didn't bother to figure in the cost of all your power tools in your 10$ figure. I'm a single mom trying to repair some crappy kitchen drawers in my very modest home. Your video is simply of you showing off your toys.

[TomH127]

$10 was the price of the materials to build each drawer. The tooling is $700 and have also made 4 kitchen cabinets and several peices of furniture

[refusalspam]

You should use push sticks that resembles a tiling floats to cut your grooves on the TS. The kind you would use on a jointer. If there is any kickback, your piece will magically disappear as you push your hands into the spinning blade. Btw, "dado" is a groove running across the grain. A "groove" is a dado running with the grain. You were making a groove to fit the 1/4 drawer bottom.

[TomH127]

Thanks for your tip! I have 2 that came my my bench jointer. Will use for my next project. Hands were 2" left of the blade. Have a zero clearance insert installed while cutting the dados & grooves

[jph3660]

Yeah, and apparently you didn't bother to discern the difference between "repairing" and "replacing."

You might as well complain that he didn't include the cost of the house in which he's building the drawers. What, did you think he was going to dimension the lumber with his bare hands and cut the joints with his teeth?

Typical dumb, bitter single mother.....

[TomH127]

jws

I cut (4) 3/8 stock at my table saw with one end clamped. Held the stock at the miter gauge left of the 10" blade (Hands out of the way!!) all 4 pieces were exact due to thickness. No more than two for 1/2'' or more. Stack cut (2) 1/4 ''for small box projects.

This is not a production shop - a home garage building projects in my spare time. I now have a miter saw with a stop block - cut 20 3/4'' door rails one by one! exact!

[Fidlist]

Okay, But when guy like Frank Klausz cuts two drawer sides together to get same length, then I figure it's good with a heavy radial saw. Klausz write for FWW I think. Alla best JW

Regardez

Fidel

[jws54]

Fidlist, it's your thing, do what'cha wanna do.

Check out FINE WOODWORKING mag and read the articles about basics. You will see it is not suggested. Read FURNITURE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING or WOOD DIGEST. Those are trade publications to industry. There are no machines produced for production cutting methods of this type.

You will get no better accuracy cutting 2 pcs at a time vs a good clean cut area with a good stop system. You will get a better cut one at a time,depending on the stop system.

[Fidlist]

Isn't done to save time. Is done to make sure the pieces the same size exact. Ok two at a time is maybe best and safer, but is good enough for Frank Klausz, is good enough for me.

[jws54]

I would NOT. The danger of doing it is not worth the trade off. The time you hope to save could be either lost in accuracy or serious injury.