That looks pretty cool Lew, but I'm not sure how I would get the perfect alignment between the sides and top with the top being bigger than the sides and the edges are radiused? Off by a few thou and no glue joint on long grain.

 

JT

Rabbet the outer edge so it fits inside the box but doesn't fall in.

1 hour ago, jthornton said:

That looks pretty cool Lew, but I'm not sure how I would get the perfect alignment between the sides and top with the top being bigger than the sides and the edges are radiused? Off by a few thou and no glue joint on long grain.

 

JT

Maybe biscuits vertical in sides/back into the underside of top??

Edited July 18, 20224 yr by lew

Great looking drawer.

I ordered some figure 8 fasteners from amazon... we'll see if they work as expected to hold the top on.

 

JT

The figure 8 fasteners came in yesterday so I got to finish the egg drawer today.

 

Installed the small end in the sides.

 

Fastened the top on

 

Installed the drawer guides

 

Weee it fits

 

Finally finished

 

Not too happy with the drawer guides from Menards, they close a bit hard when you get to the part that pulls the drawer in and they are NOT full extension even though the package says so... they only open 15 1/2" not the 16" they claim.

 

Oh well it's just an egg drawer...

 

JT

Looks really great!  
 

I buy my drawer slides from https://www.cshardware.com/. Probably a little more expensive but very good quality. 

One classy looking and functioning egg case Jt. Well done.

21 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

One classy looking and functioning egg case JT. Well done.

 

Thank you

JT

Edited July 23, 20224 yr by jthornton

EGGsellent work on that drawer!  Seriously, it looks great and I'm sure will be a welcome addition to the kitchen.

I removed the Menards brand drawer slides and replaced them with some Everbuilt full extension ball bearing soft close from Home Depot and wow what a difference. The Everbuilt are much smoother and close better.

 

Eggs are sorted by size and popularity, when I get a dozen I put them in a carton. The tiny one is a no yolk egg created by a speck of something. They are called Rooster Eggs...

 

JT

Looks great. Can't beat farm fresh eggs, especially brown eggs.