Upscale wrote:
"Leon" wrote in message
There are many people that do not appreciate the inner workings of
furniture, they simply care about how it looks on the outside. Have you
been in to the common furniture store lately? Open a dresser drawer and
see
if is even 2/3's as deep as the dresser caucus. If it has DT's, were they
sanded smooth?

For commercial furniture anyway, I'd guess it's a time and material cost
cutting measure.

Sometimes you find drawers with the back inserted into
a dado so that the sides extend an inch or more past the
useable space in the drawer. I figured that was so that when
the drawer was open 'all the way' it wouldn't fall out of the
carcass.

Other than that, I agree it makes no sense to make the drawer
shallower than the carcass.

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