I am building an arts & crafts style dresser and want to use soft close drawer guides and inset the faces of the drawers into the frame VS overlay them. I have never done an inset drawer face and not in conjunction with soft close. I thought about making sides and back of the drawer boxes out of poplar and using a blind joint to put the face on. I am concerned about doing this in that it feels like it gives me less room for error in the reveal around the drawer front in the face of the dresser. I am thinking I get more wiggle room with a complete poplar drawer box and then attach the drawer front to the box and center this is the dresser face.
Open to suggestions.
Thanks.
Brian