 What the heck is the quarter-quarter-quarter method of making very simple, but very strong drawers? Well, I would workers Paul crossing here small workshop guy This drawer system uses what are called locking rabbit joints now that sounds very very complicated I know the beginners here Maybe your eyes are glazing over and you're grabbing that mouse to go to another video because that sounds way too difficult Stick with me. It's not and what we're doing here. It's just an overview I'm also going to give you links down below to two other videos and one blog article Talking more about the method Now it's only called quarter quarter quarter because we're I'm using half inch wide stock What we do is we set up a dado stack on the table saw that is as wide as one half of The workpiece that I'm using so if I'm using a one half inch Workpiece sides here front back and sides Then I'm going to set up my dado stack to be Precisely one quarter of an inch wide one half of this In addition, I'm going to set up the dado stack to be one quarter of an inch tall again one half of the material that I'm using and I'm going to set up the fence on the table saw to be one quarter of an inch away From the dado stack so a quarter high Excuse me quarter wide a quarter high and a quarter distance however, if you want to use three quarter inch Sides and bottom and so forth then just do everything based on one half of that So that's why stumpy nubs if you go to his video says hey I'd rather call this the half half half system because that gives you The idea of how to use it no matter what the width Of your work component. So let me show you kind of how the drawer fits together Again, it's all done with one setup on the table saw Once you've cut your sides to their length and to their width You're going to prepare your stock first all of your stock first and then we're talking about doing the joinery So once you've got all of your stock prepared the right length the right width and so forth Then you're going to cut these joints. Let me take this apart to show you that joinery And again, this is just an overview video So here's the joinery on the two sides Actually on all four of these pieces the two sides the front and the back We cut a slot I call it a slot because it's running with the grain Not across the grain if you have a slot like this a lot of you might call that a dado If it's with the grain it's called a slot if it's a cross grain it's called a dado All right, so all four of these have a slot Which is one quarter of an inch from the bottom One quarter of an inch wide and one quarter of the inch deep You're going to get all of those automatically off of that table saw setup that I described All right, so all four of them get a slot and that slot is to then receive Your bottom whether that bottom be a quarter inch piece of plywood Or i'm going to in my method i'm going to talk about how to just go ahead and use half inch Because I like the strength for that All right, everything gets a slot the two sides get a dado Running up and down the side And that is a quarter of an inch in and a quarter of an inch deep And a quarter of an inch wide again. That's the way my table saw is set up So I just if this is my table saw blade here I just pass that over the blade up against the fence And get all of those dimensions So the two sides Have these dados on the ends The front and the back end up with a rabbet cut along the edge of this outside That leaves a tenon If you can see that that leaves a tenon On the inside face Of the front and the back so I cut that rabbet that creates that tenon And that's all that's done to those pieces So they have a slot on the inside And then a rabbet on the outside which creates a tenon on the same face as the slot So we're done there In my method I run this across my same setup on my table saw to create this rabbet Which then creates This quarter inch tenon and that's what I fit into the bottom grooves So let's see how this goes together. Let me admit to you that My tolerances here are a little too wide and so things are a little sloppy to handle And that makes the assembly more difficult You don't want things to be too tight though Otherwise when you glue it up and things start spreading you'll have difficulty getting things put together So anyway I'm just going to put these these uh dados over these uh tenons or and then I'm going to hold that together here Just for an extra pair of hands Very lightly I'm going to turn this up And slide my bottom in I got to slide my bottom in Before I put on the back otherwise there won't be any way to put it in So with that clamp down there helping hold it I just Try to squeeze this in place Use get a little pressure here Let that drop down And try to see That it's going all the way into the slot on the bottom And you can tell that All right, and then finally This this is probably the trickiest one of all. I need this slot to go over the the bottom And then I need this tenon to get into This dado Batao, there's that one If we have any luck at all We'll be able to get the other one on And if you have difficulty getting it on it just means something's Out of sync somewhere All right, and there is the drawer Again the concept is that this tenon goes into that dado And that creates a strong bond particularly if you had your tolerances a little better than I have this one You can either glue in the bottom or not glue it in I like in the method I'm going to show you I actually cut the back shorter So that I have an opening to slide in the bottom And then I like to leave the bottom loose, but then I tack it with a screw That way I can replace it if I need to for some reason All right, well, that's it. It's called the Quarter quarter quarter system if you're using half inch stock And it's using locking rabbit joints So watch for my detailed video part two of my cabinet build series And also take a look at the stumpy nubs video. 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