Draw Construction

[Fastmonkey]

Hi There, I am making some bedside chest of drawers at the moment and they have draws which fit flush with the front of the chest. I have built the draws using biscuits and screws leaving off the front of the draw. I then fit the draws in the the chest and measure up the front piece.

Where I am struggling is on how to fit the front piece to the drawer with out screwing it through the front. I want an invisible fixing but am not sure of the best way to do it. Any thoughts ??

 

[big-all]

dependant on thickness of materials depends on what you can do

dowels or buiscut into the them together

or a bit of 1"by1" or 20mm by 20mm [2by1" planed riped down the middle] assuming the sides are 12mm or less screw into the wood through the sides so you now have a block flush with the front off the drawer full height [but no before youve grooved or reccesed for the base ] with a rounded top edge
you now countersink through the wood and screw into the back of the drawer front

 

[1511]

I always line up my draw fronts with a good quality double sided tape, then carefully countersink and screw them into place. Hope this has been of help, it helped me a hell of alot.

 

[big-all]

heelllooo 1511

if i am reading this right fastmonkey has made his own at present open fronted drawers and wants to secure the front on

 

[Scrit]

Another alternative might be pocket hole screws from the outsides of the drawer sides, although they are visible. However, Kreg do a pocket hole plug in various colours to solve that problem

Scrit

 

[1511]

Hi Big-all, are you a carpenter by trade or just learning lol

 

[big-all]

Hi Big-all, are you a carpenter by trade or just learning lol

certainly --------------------still learning

 

[1511]

How nice lol