I found some nice looking drawers in the garbage.
And right next to them, it looks like
part of the dresser that these belong to
but nothing else.
But, on another garbage heap, I found
this particle board. And I figure with this
and some MDF, I can put together a
dresser back from these pieces. So, got it temporarily
assembled with some clamps, just to see how this is
gonna work out.
I want to make a bottom that joins with these
existing dowels,
which are just in holes. And these ones
I have to measure where they are and that first one
is at 9.9.
And 25.8.
To use glue to assemble furniture, seems to have gone
somewhat out of fashion. This was only put together with
some knock-down fasteners here and these tore out.
So, I'm gonna take these dowels that are in here
and glue them in. And that will give them much more hold.
There's also some flanges on the legs, which it didn't use
originally. But I will.
The top, I just want to use some particle board.
And if this sags, it's gonna hit the drawer.
So, I'm gonna double up the particle board to get
a bit more stiffness for here.
Now I just gotta wait for that glue to dry again.
So the top of this dresser used to be just attached
using these knock-down fasteners that screw into the top.
And using one of these things that hooks on to it,
plus a few dowels.
My first plan was to just use the dowel holes to glue the
top on. But I'm not sure if I want to keep that top
so I don't want to glue it on.
And I could use these fasteners but I don't really trust them
very much. So another logical thing would be to just
drill from the top or pocket holes from below.
But I don't have a pocket hole jig.
So I'm gonna attach these rails here
like so, so I can screw in from below.
And there's just enough room in here
for them not to interfere with the drawer.
The glue is not gonna stick to this varnished surface here.
So the first thing I have to do is take the varnish off.
Well, it's not the best melamine covered particle board.
But I want to keep this project entirely from garbage.
For the front edge, I've got this other piece of wood.
Also from the garbage. That glues on here.
And that gives me a nice front edge and hopefully
a bit sturdier. All right, edge glued on.
So I just lined these up and now I'm using the screws to
center punch where the pilot holes need to go.
All done. Looks almost too nice to be a piece of shop furniture.
I did reinforce the drawers a little bit.
And I'll make a separate video about that.
And much sturdier than it was when it was new.