Drill the drawer face holes.
Making simple plywood drawers.
How to make drawers in 6 easy steps determine drawer height and rough cut parts match drawer sides to your drawer slides measure drawer opening and cut fronts and backs drill pocket holes and assemble drawer box measure cut and install drawer bottoms add false drawer fronts to drawer box.
If you don t want to cut dadoes you can also just glue and staple plywood into the bottom of the drawer box however you need to keep in mind that that will add to the drawer box height so you may need to adjust accordingly.
Place the 1 6.
Learn how to properly measure for drawer.
Measure in from each side and mark a line at 2 1 8 in 3 1 8 in.
Build super simple drawers discover the secrets to making strong drawers by cutting locking rabbet joints on the tablesaw as taught by wood magazine design editor jeff mertz.
Material to the end of the jig.
Using a miter saw and the cut list above cut the 1 6 1 3 and square dowels to size.
I assemble my drawers using plywood in dadoes on the drawer box sides.
Piece of plywood the same width as the drawer fronts and rip it down to 4 3 8 in.
Place the 1 3 front and back pieces on the work surface.
Using a kreg jig drill two pocket.
Best of all this technique allows you to cut all parts of the joint with just a dado blade and a single setup on the tablesaw.
In this video i show you how to make cabinet drawers using screws for the queen sized storage i ve been working on.
Drill the pocket holes.
It doesn t matter how deep wide or tall your drawer is.
Fasten a scrap of 3 4 in.