On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 9:06:31 PM UTC-4, Sonny wrote:
On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 7:35:44 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:

3/8" on one drawer, 1/2" on the other. I'm guessing that those are
considerable gaps, probably too much for the dampening and weighting
technique, correct?


No, not at all. That degree of bow is a nominal curve, in both drawers, and should be easy to reverse, to some extent, using the wetted technique. If it bent one way, it should be able to be bent the other way. If still in doubt, bend it slowly, over time, then allow to dry.

Yeah, it took ~100 years to bend one way, and my daughter doesn't graduate
for another month, so I have lot's of time to reverse the bend. ;-)

So what about simply leaving the bottom in the drawer, wetting the raw bottom
and then placing the drawer face down under a table with an upside down dead
man wedged between table and the center of the bottom - over correcting the
curve - and letting it dry? I'd use the "bottom" of the deadman to spread the
pressure out (slightly) as opposed to it being a single pressure point.

Thoughts?

At least see what effect that has.

Sonny