I want to build a dresser for the kids but the drawers for a dresser require a lot of
wood so I want to use this piece which is from a table that's been kept outside and
it was on the curb but I think if I plan this down a bit the wood is going to look not too
bad
[Music]
and I still had quite a bit of excess thickness after that so the boards ended up looking
all right and the length was just right to make two drawer sides these will be the sides
of my drawers these pieces are from Resa two by sixes and glued together to be the backs
now I still need the fronts I just cut these pieces to length and if I resaw those I think
I'd be able to glue all the fronts together of those and I'll resaw those starting with
the table saw to put a slot on either side
[Music] there's two pieces except I made a mistake I didn't set the table saw fence right
so this piece is too thin whoops
[Applause] so one of my friends is wide enough the other four I'll have to glue together
out of two pieces each
I'm cutting some box joints into the back corners of the side pieces and as usual I'm
cutting these box joints with a regular blade not a dado blade because just taking a few
passes with the Box joint jig is fast enough
now I need to attach the front of the drawers to here and the logical thing to do would
be to cut some kind of a slot or dovetail for this to fit into here but I don't like
that approach because a slot here basically pretty much Cuts this part off I much prefer
a small series of slots that go this way this is the back corner of the drawer sides and
this will be the front and on here I want to put a Tenon every three quarters of an
inch these ones are quarter inch tens every half inch but for these I need to have a half
inch in between and I'm afraid that I might miscount the turns on my jig so I marked on
here where I need to cut uh when this lines up with a blue tick on here I need to make
a cut and these aren't very accurately marked I'm just using that to make sure I don't lose
the turn count the actual precise Position will be determined by the crank handle and
also when this faces the gear here
[Music] got my tennis cut at the right spacing but I was so worried about getting the spacing
wrong I forgot to check the depth of cut these are too deep which means my drawers will now
be a quarter inch less deep than had planned because they'll have to cut off the ends of
these I'd also cut box joints into the ends of the longer back pieces and I'm using those
box joints to Mark where the mortises need to go in the front piece so the front and
back will be the same width I have a counter wheel at the top of my slot mortiser to make
sure I don't lose counter the turns for adjusting between vortices for this one [Music]
[Music] if I was chopping these mortises with hand tools I would think twice about putting
mortise right into a knot in the wood but with a slot mortise or with a router in it
no problem
foreign
s a little bit I do that quite often actually
and I screwed up a little bit of the 80 mortises I cut this one was off by one screw turn so
I had to cut a bit off the Tenon to make it fit in there and now I have a gap here the
logical thing to do would be to glue the backs on in this orientation but then all the glue
drips would end up on the rest of the drawer so I'm gluing it together and lying flat on
my workbench instead
and here's a table saw sheet good trick just for the safety trolls
[Music] just an aside these pieces all have an R marked on them here here and here and
R for me means reference surface that's the side that went against the fence in the Box
joint jig and also against the table on the slot mortiser and I have to keep those sides
together to make sure all these things line up
I always line up the drawer's edges with the bottom edges that way I can make sure the
drawer is actually Square in the end
I'm also adding a small lip to extend the front down below the bottom this is important
because the bottom will inevitably sag a little bit and if the bottom is the lowest part of
the drawer it will rub against the next drawer below it but if the front extends down a little
bit beyond the bottom that won't happen I ran out of plywood for the drawer bottoms
so I'm gluing together three off cuts to make the last one foreign
ER to go in the front of the drawers and I'm going to try to saw five layers out of this
one piece of Oak I'm not sure if that'll work
[Music]
I am joining the board slot between passes that way my veneer layers will always have
one side that's playing foreign
got my five layers out of it unfortunately that knot got a bit worse as I went along
I'm using a scrap of carpet as a soft pad for the veneer that way I get even pressure
even if the veneer isn't entirely smooth
I can only glue up one of these at a time but that's okay I got other things to do it
seems to be fashionable for YouTubers to get sponsored by total boat these days and then
use gods and gobs of epoxy to fill in defects and stuff like that but I'm old-fashioned
that way so I'm making a plug to fill it I'm using a dark piece of mahogany to fill that
in that way the knot will still show up because in three of the veneers the knot stayed in
place
okay foreign [Music] so here's my five drawers now I know exactly how big I need to make
the cabinets unfortunately I put the veneer on one of them backwards and building that
cabinet will be my next video