View Full Version : Drawer Boxes - 1 Piece or Glued
Mike Shields
07-07-2008, 3:25 PM
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
07-07-2008, 4:41 PM
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
07-07-2008, 4:44 PM
how about if you make them deliberately separated (slightly) with 2 knobs/handles, that open the same drawer.
Michael Liechty
07-07-2008, 4:45 PM
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
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