I  chose this Forum because it's the most popular, and this post is more of a tutorial than plans.

The following are progressive drawings of how to make a drawer front from part of a table apron. 

Following the drawings, I'll show you an image of a small chair-side table I designed and made using these methods.

Larry

 

 

 

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Lare..

I really like they way you did this Larry. Pretty simple and straight forward.

And you ended up with a really nice table.

Thanks for sharing this.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Great illustration Larry. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Hi Larry,

That is a new slant on the project and it looks good. However I cut one out of the apron by cutting it out from the back side and when assembled it matched the apron perfectly. I would show a picture but, I forgot to upload the picture.

Ralph and others..  Thanks for the kind words.

There are several ways to do this.  I just like to do it this way because it gives you some latitude when doing the final sizing of the components.

 

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Lare..

very nice. thnx for sharing that info

 

Very timely post for my grandson and I.  We are building a table. We will be doing this shortly.  I have never done this before and have been thinking about the best way to go about it.  I was tinkering with the  idea of cutting a solid piece out of the solid stretcher and not doing any gluing, but it is a one shot deal that has to be prefect the first time ;-))

Larry has a great with illustrations don't he!

TopamaxSurvivor said:

Very timely post for my grandson and I.  We are building a table. We will be doing this shortly.  I have never done this before and have been thinking about the best way to go about it.  I was tinkering with the  idea of cutting a solid piece out of the solid stretcher and not doing any gluing, but it is a one shot deal that has to be prefect the first time ;-))

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Yup!! ;-))

Larry, Great illustration. You are the best with pictures and drawings and making the complicated seem simple.

 

Thanks for this information. It is great.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com