"nigel" wrote in message

For my first attempt I am heading for inset drawers - I figure I might
as well get the difficult version under my belt (probably after a lot
of mistakes) and then start looking into the various evils that can be
hidden behind a false drawer front.

The pictures in your journal are exactly what I need to progress, I
think. And the comment about screwing rather than gluing to allow for
later adjustment is something I would have missed, I'm afraid, if I'd
gone ahead with my original plans which would have made the runners and
kickers an integral part of the carcass rather than adding them in
afterwards.

Glad it could be of some use to you.

One of the problems with inset drawers is getting that bottom "gap" to equal
the gap around the two sides and top, and to stay that way.

A neat tip/trick on inset drawers is to plane a very small "rabbet" on the
bottom of the front edge of the drawer front. Make this small rabbet equal
in depth to the distance of your fitted gap around the top and two sides,
generally around a 1/16".

This way, your drawer, even though sitting flat on the runners, will appear
to have the same width gap all around.

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