Building Dovetail Drawer Boxes

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Building dovetail drawer boxes.

How to build dovetail drawers with a semi floating base. Once cut slide it into the grooves until it fits into the groove in the front board of the box. Be careful to verify the dovetail spacing on your jig prior to starting. In this video wood magazine s bob.

With half blind dovetails the front and the back of the drawer are cut to the exact final width. The rockler dovetail jig produces drawers that are at even inch heights. Subtract 1 16 or a bit more from that measurement and that s how wide you ll cut the drawer base. Begin by sanding the box and the dovetail joints with progressively finer grits of sandpaper until the joints and drawer box are smooth.