Robert Reece
10-25-2009, 3:51 PM
A year or so ago, I made the carcass for a set of built in drawers that I had planned. I had to make the carcass then because the house was being trimmed and I needed the carcass to nail the trim to.
So it came time to build the drawers and when I got to sizing everything up, I discovered the BORG plywood wasn't doing me any favors. See pic #2. That is a picture of the cabinet side with a 1/4" localized bow in it. The bow spans maybe 6". BTW, the sticker is still on the plywood and it says "Cabinet grade". Whatever, this stuff really is bad. I know we cover the subject here every now and then, so I thought I would put my experience in.
I considered tearing the carcass out and putting proper plywood in there, but decided I could just shim the slides to make it work. Well, I ended up making the drawers 1" too wide (forgot to subtract for the slides), so I ended up tearing it out anyway. Pic #1 is the current state of the project. Next project is making the drawer fronts.
So it came time to build the drawers and when I got to sizing everything up, I discovered the BORG plywood wasn't doing me any favors. See pic #2. That is a picture of the cabinet side with a 1/4" localized bow in it. The bow spans maybe 6". BTW, the sticker is still on the plywood and it says "Cabinet grade". Whatever, this stuff really is bad. I know we cover the subject here every now and then, so I thought I would put my experience in.
I considered tearing the carcass out and putting proper plywood in there, but decided I could just shim the slides to make it work. Well, I ended up making the drawers 1" too wide (forgot to subtract for the slides), so I ended up tearing it out anyway. Pic #1 is the current state of the project. Next project is making the drawer fronts.