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Rabbet drawer fronts?
I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I
make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? What do you do most often? -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com |
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"Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I should ad that I am referring to flush fitting drawer fronts. -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com Generally, flush fitting drawer fronts do not allow for the use of a rabbeted front. |
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Leon wrote:
"Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I should ad that I am referring to flush fitting drawer fronts. -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com Generally, flush fitting drawer fronts do not allow for the use of a rabbeted front. Sure they do. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message news:P0Nei.3495$5h6.1106@trnddc05... Leon wrote: "Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I should ad that I am referring to flush fitting drawer fronts. -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com Generally, flush fitting drawer fronts do not allow for the use of a rabbeted front. Sure they do. Can you explain? |
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"Leon" writes: Can you explain? For example, if you're using drawer slides, there's a 1/2" gap beside each drawer. You can use a rabbeted dovetail to allow the front to extend past the slides and hide them. |
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Leon wrote:
"dadiOH" wrote in message news:P0Nei.3495$5h6.1106@trnddc05... Leon wrote: "Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I should ad that I am referring to flush fitting drawer fronts. -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com Generally, flush fitting drawer fronts do not allow for the use of a rabbeted front. Sure they do. Can you explain? Many/most dovetail kits (eg, Porter-Cable) allow for dovetails in a rabbet...the cuts don't go all the way through to the front, sockets/pins are rounded on inboard side. Think "half-blind"... -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Rabbet drawer fronts?
"Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? What do you do most often? -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com Rabbeted would hide the gaps between the drawer and the carcus. Do you want to hide the gap? |
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Stoutman wrote:
I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? Possibly so the pins don't show from the front. More likely because equipment ans ease. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:55:33 GMT, "dadiOH"
wrote: Stoutman wrote: I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? Possibly so the pins don't show from the front. More likely because equipment ans ease. A rabbeted front can be used to hide slides in a flush mount drawer. Usually, a rabbeted front is used to create an overlay to hide the gap, as Leon is thinking. By "slides", I'm thinking of wooden devices, but occasionally you'll see metal cabinet-style slides in furniture. --------------------------------------------- ** http://www.bburke.com/woodworking.html ** --------------------------------------------- |
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"B A R R Y" wrote in message "dadiOH" wrote: Stoutman wrote: I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? Possibly so the pins don't show from the front. More likely because equipment ans ease. A rabbeted front can be used to hide slides in a flush mount drawer. Usually, a rabbeted front is used to create an overlay to hide the gap, as Leon is thinking. http://www.e-woodshop.net/Projects3.htm ....and scroll down toward the bottom of "A few wooden drawer details", where you will see some drawers in an old sideboard that have stood the test of time. One ot the interesting thing about these 100 year old, flush mounted, wooden slide drawers is that the drawer front used a "rabbeted locking rabbet" joint to attach to the front to the sides, while the drawer back was dovetailed to the sides ... an interesting switch. These drawers are the smoothest working drawers I've ever seen on a piece of furniture, bar none ... and that includes modern drawer slides of all types! So much so that I arranged a photo session with the curators just to keep this particular method of wooden drawer slides fresh in my mind and hopefully provide some ideas for future drawer makers. -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 6/1/07 KarlC@ (the obvious) |
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:45:03 -0400, "Stoutman" .@. wrote:
I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? What do you do most often? I use blind dovetails in the front and dovetails on the back. It is easier to make a drawer with a lip than flush mount (and still look good). I have a dovetail jig, but I enjoy cutting them by hand. |
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Just finished 4 lipped drawers today for a desk .The drawers are rabbited at
the top and sides only so that a 1/4" lip is formed and the drawer edged with a 1/4" quarter round. The sides are attached with conventional dovetails. The desk is in curly maple which is difficult to grain match.So I had to slice a figured board into 1/4" thick veneers and glue up the drawer fronts to get something looking decent ..........mjh "Stoutman" .@. wrote in message ... I am making a dresser and this weekend I will be making drawers. Should I make rabbeted dovetails or non rabbeted (rabbeted left and right on drawer front with dovetails)? Why do a lot of furniture manufactures use rabbeted dovetails? What do you do most often? -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com |
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