{"id":438,"date":"2009-07-26T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-04-19T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:29:52","slug":"high-end-drawers-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/high-end-drawers-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"High-end drawers, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are so many ways to make drawers that a book would be the right medium for a comprehensive discussion of the topic. This introduction begins a series of posts<\/strong>, not likely to be contiguous, which will focus on one method for high quality, fairly small size drawers suited for a craftsman\u2019s best projects.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I wonder why we woodworkers bother with the niceties of fine drawers. I still warmly remember the hectic weeks with a newborn baby in a new house when I stole any minutes I could to build a large tool cabinet<\/strong> for my new shop. Six drawers, nothing too pretty: rabbeted plywood, bottoms running side-hung in dadoes, glue, screws, and feeling tired but happy. Now more than two decades, college expenses, and a lot of woodworking later, they still run smoothly<\/strong>. It would be nice if everything worked this well.<\/p>\n

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Nonetheless, at the other end of the aesthetic spectrum it is certainly possible to combine function with beauty<\/strong>. A logical process<\/a>, with special attention paid to the critical junctures, will produce enduring, exquisite drawers. This series is based on traditional methods, but I will feature some modifications<\/strong> that I use because they make sense.<\/p>\n

This is not the only way<\/strong> to make fancy drawers, nor do I propose it as the “best” way because that judgement depends on function and aesthetics which are ultimately the provinces of each craftsman <\/a>for each project. For making high-end drawers, as with almost all of my woodworking, I employ machines and hand tools<\/a>, though the latter predominate and certainly are used for the precision steps.<\/p>\n

The next post in the series<\/strong> will address the fine points of case construction with regard to drawer fitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are so many ways to make drawers that a book would be the right medium for a comprehensive discussion of the topic. This introduction begins a series of posts, not likely to be contiguous, which will focus on one method for high quality, fairly small size drawers suited for a craftsman\u2019s best projects. Sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techniques","tag-high-end-drawers-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}