I make my drawer sides, fronts, and backs 1/2″ thick. This eliminates all concentricity issues related to a misaligned router base.ĭrawer Construction Details. It comes with a bearing piloted dovetail bit so there’s no need to use a template bushing with your router.
It’s rock solid, simple to use, fast, and produces consistently perfect half-blind dovetails. I use a Woodhaven 7600 jig (see Sources). I’ll show you what I have learned over my many years of making dovetail drawers. Routing half-blind dovetail joints is fairly easy if you know the tricks. The dovetail joint is interlocking and well suited for drawers since it will not allow the drawer front to be pulled away from the sides. Dovetailed drawers look great, they scream out quality, and they are super strong.
Today I can’t imagine using any other type of drawer joinery. I was under the misconception that making them took a lot of time and was a lot of work.
Part two will be about using a dovetail router jig, and assembling dovetailed drawers.įor the longest time I resisted making dovetail drawers. In this installment I will explain how a half-blind dovetail router jig works, calculating drawer parts sizes, and where to locate drawer bottoms for drawers with side-mount slides or undermount slides. The focus is on drawers with mechanical slides.
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