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A project log for Shop Reorganization

Putting my house in order

david-tuckerDavid Tucker 05/06/2023 at 22:270 Comments

So life has been busy recently, but I have had some time to poke around in the shop.  I managed to build all my drawers, sand them up, and install them into my cabinet.

I'm using ball bearing side mounted drawer runners.  I measured out where the bottom edge of all the drawer runners should end up and then cut a piece of scrap wood to act as a guide for instillation.  I also cut a piece of the face material to act as a spacer so the front edge of the slides all line up properly with the front edge of the cabinet.

Once the slides were in place I 3D printed some spacers so that each drawer was spaced properly from the one below it. I was a bit worried there would be some compounding errors here since the drawers were not referencing a common ground point, but it seems to have come out square in the end.

These slides have very little adjustment, so I had to really take my time trying to make everything line up properly.  I think I got there in the end.  I have a tiny bit of forward/back adjustment available, I may use that to dial it in perfectly, once the fronts are on.

These slides have a small rubber bumper at the back that acts as a soft close as well as making it more difficult for these to come open. It is a bit stiff, but I like that since these are on wheels and I don't want the drawers coming open while I'm rolling things around.  Still for use in your kitchen I would find these a bit annoying.  You can remove the bumper, but the bumper acts as a stop, so it allows the drawer to slide back further once removed.

I have never quite decided what to put on the fronts of my drawers.  I ended up picking up a medium quality quarter sheet of 1/2" plywood to use as temporary fronts.  As an experiment I tried edge banding the plywood as well.  Overall I'm not impressed with edge banding, it is frustrating to work with and prone to tearout and splintering.  Maybe I just need more experience, but so far it is not much fun.  This plywood is not high enough quality to justify edge banding, but it was an interesting learning experience, and it does not look horrible at least.

I'm waiting for the varnish to dry and I have some drawer pulls on order to finish it all off.  I'm really looking forward to starting sorting my tools into drawers.  Hopefully tomorrow the parts will show up and I can finish this off.

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