Am building a chest of drawers as follows:

Drawer sides and backs are 1/2 hard maple.
Drawer fronts are 3/4 hard maple.
Drawer bottoms are 1/4 birch ply.

Drawers are to be assembled using half blind dovetails front and back
and epoxy. (Explanation later)

Drawer fronts have BLO & wax.

All drawer outside surfaces sealed with 2 coats of 2# shellac.

All drawer inside surfaces sealed with 3 coats of 2# shellac.

Each coat is lightly sanded with 320 grit.

Since the drawers are not assembled yet, it is straight forward flat
surface sanding.

Since the tails and pins of the dovetails have some shellac on them as
a result of my sloppy application of shellac, Titebond II can't be
used for ass'y, thus the epoxy which will seal around the shellac
coated pins and tails and cure.

Now the question.

IF you want to build drawers with the interior surfaces sealed and
sanded smooth as a baby's rear end, what would you do differently from
the above?

Lew

IF you want to build drawers with the interior surfaces sealed and
sanded smooth as a baby's rear end, what would you do differently from
the above?

Agreed, finishing drawer interiors after assembly is just about impossible
to do well.

My 4 cents:

Tape off the pins (blue painters tape).

Use a thinner cut of shellac (I don't like much build in that application
anyway)

Take it a little slower as to not slosh finish past the boundries.

Try to leave as bit of raw plywood wood on the perimeter of the botton as a
glue surface (yes, when using ply I glue the bottoms).

-Steve