On 10/12/2019 8:53 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 2:05:44 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 10/11/2019 3:59 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote: On Thursday, October 10, 2019
at 12:13:45 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 10/10/2019 8:43 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Bob La Londe writes:
On 10/4/2019 1:24 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

Well after much thought I figure I'll go with 3/4 plywood and pocket
screws with Titebond.

Personally, I'd use box joints for the drawer sides; much stronger.

Well, box joints are certainly stronger. I agree, but they fail in the
faster department. I have glued and screwed drawers with hundreds of
pounds of bolts, motors, etc in them now. They are several years old.
The slides will fail from overloading before the drawers do.

I'm not a wood worker by trade or hobby, I don't get excited by the
process, and I don't care about pretty. I doubt I'll even put false
fronts on them. Probably just hack a dip in the front so I have a place
to grab them.

I've got a couple of notched front drawers with exposed slides. Saw
dust gets in
the drawers and on the slides. I assume metal dust would too.

1/4€� ply fronts is all you'd need to seal them up a bit.


Metal dust and chips would be worse probably. Good point. Although
most of the metal chips are made in a different room of the shop. I
could even have them sliced up at the box store to save myself some time.

Cutting time saved but replaced by sanding time.

The last time I had plywood cut down at a big box store I could have used
the edge splinters as tooth picks.



Yeah, I think its a function of who is running the saw. Last time I was
there the young man on the panel saw was conscientious, fed slow, and
took care to give us pretty good cuts. There was an older guy who came
by and told him he wanted some help doing something. That guy stood
around, wandered away, and wandered back impatiently and then yelled at
me for leaning on their cross cut saw. I was leaning on the feed table
several feet away from the saw. If that guy is the one available to cut
lumber I'll take my boards home to break down. LOL. He would do a
****ty fast job just to be spiteful over the fact that he had to work at
all.