There is no real reason to make these out of 1" thick material, but I had 5/4 stock in the shed and I did not want to waste so much of it. Revashelf would not build their utensil cabinet or tray slideouts in cherry, so I built those as well. Machine time is inconsequential compared to stock prep, sanding and clamping. Machine time for a drawer is 8-12min per drawer. This worked quite well after some testing. Instead of using my pods I made a simple flat vacuum jig and I used 1/8" thick puck board to elevate the parts off the table (did not want to cut endless grooves in my $300 sheet of plastic). Originally I was using my vacuum pods for this, but I found I would have need to make quite a few more pods for various drawer sizes. Any minor stock bow or other imperfections leads to problems achieving full vacuum and then the parts do not come out correctly. I have been building drawers and boxes for a couple of weeks now.įor the dovetail drawer parts to work out correctly the stock needs to be prepped very well, and it must be perfectly level. I thought I would share a few pics of my current project.
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