saw this elsewhere...

http://www.home-dzine.co.za/diy/diy-easy-drawer-runners.htm#top

Thanks for that info Stick. I have a drawer project on my do list and will give it a try.

I wish I had this info when I was working. I had to do many retrofits in the field and it was a pain!

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by Joeb41

beautimous

Good stuff...Bookmarked it...now to remember I did that

 

Can't say much for the particle board OSB drawers used though

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by Grandpadave52

I just use that Kreg jig. 

 

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by Gene Howe

I did 10 inset drawers with full extension bearing slides last year and it was a pain.    I left a little extra in the opening (rather shim than shave), so I had a number of degrees of freedom

• left and right (so didn't bind or gap)
• front to back (so closed flush)
• height (so didn't rub top or bottom)
• rotation (so front sits flush around and not tipped)

I was ready to go buy some jigs.

I really like half-overlay ;-)  And doing away with slides altogether is good, too.   Spent almost as much on slides as wood.

I really like clean drawer sides. Blum bottom mounts are the answer.

I do basically the same thing, add a step to move the slides up to about the center of the drawer which I prefer. The wider gap on top and bottom of the middle drawer was so that I could make all the drawer fronts the same height. 

 

This is the cabinet under my drill press, modified later to change the top drawer to three shallow ones which are more useful for storing drill bits, their primary function. 

 

Don't know why it put the photo in the wrong order, you need to look at them from bottom to top.

 

Edited January 24, 20188 yr by tomp
Added note - photos in wrong order

56 minutes ago, tomp said:

I do basically the same thing

 

my method is pretty much like yours..

and I don't use OSB either...

46 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

 

my method is pretty much like yours..

and I don't use OSB either...

Me either, at least not for inside projects. Learned my lesson when I used scrap OSB to fill in the gap between the window and the inside face of the wall in my garage/shop - thought I was saving money using leftovers until it came time to paint it. Like painting a sponge, I probably used all the money I saved in material for extra paint. Having said that, I can remember my father getting a piece of "furniture grade" chipboard - small chips, very dense and smooth, guessing from Scandinavia because that was the big thing at the time - that he used to make a table top. He nailed wood edging around it and put on about 6 coats of varnish. This was before I left home, so around 1960 or so, and it was something new they were showing at a local home show there in Edinburgh.

8 minutes ago, tomp said:

thought I was saving money using leftovers until it came time to paint it. Like painting a sponge,

 

should of painted the other side...

2 hours ago, tomp said:

This is the cabinet under my drill press,

I like it Tom...very nice.

Thanks Stick . This might come in handy sometime this summer.