Drawer Boxes - 1 Piece or Glued

[Mike Shields]

Your thoughts please.

I will be making drawer boxes for a low-end project (mud room) made with melamine coated particle board. Because I currently don't have wide enough material (pine), I'm wondering:

is there some woodworker law, or other good reason, that says drawer boxes cannot be made from glued panels?

Thanks.

[Frank Drew]

Mike,

No, particularly not in your application (utility grade)? I'm not entirely sure how well melamine covered particle board will glue up, however.

For good and better quality furniture work I wouldn't glue up a drawer front unless I had some very straight grain that wouldn't show as a glue joint, and even then I probably wouldn't unless I had to. Maybe that's just me, though.

[Leo Zick]

how about if you make them deliberately separated (slightly) with 2 knobs/handles, that open the same drawer.

[Michael Liechty]

I recently bought 18 cabinets doors and 5 drawer fronts for a built in from Decore and they shipped me Poplar drawer front's all glued up. If I knew that I would have built my own.

Gluing them up is just fine for paint grade work.
This built in was sprayed with white lacquer

ML