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Excerpted from Chests of Drawers
Chests of Drawers: Drawer-Building Basics
Details on drawer construction, wood choices, joinery tips, support ideas and more
by Bill Hylton
When you strip it down to its elements, a chest of drawers is a big box that's filled with smaller boxes (the drawers). Every drawer has the same basic parts: front, back, sides, and bottom. But these parts can be assembled in a variety of ways to produce different types of drawers. Curiously, it's not so much the way the drawer is constructed as how the front of it relates to the case that gives the drawer type its name.
In this excerpt, you'll learn about the role of each part of a drawer, wood selection, joinery options, and the various systems of supporting the drawer inside the chest.
Bill Hylton is an accomplished woodworker and woodworking author who has written numerous books about cabinetmaking.
Photos: © 2002 Donna Chiarelli; drawings: © 2002 The Taunton Press
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