I've got all kinds of random junk down here that doesn't really have a proper
place to go but about twenty years ago I made this rack that holds eight wooden
boxes and you can pull them out like drawers so I figured I should make
another rack like this making so many drawers takes an awful lot of wood so I
went through my scrap wood and picked out all this but that won't be enough so
I'll have to use some new wood too I've got 20 pieces here that'll make their
front and back for 10 drawers but only 16 sides so for the rest of them I glued
together the scraps from cutting those to form more sides got 10 bottoms cuts
20 fronts and backs and actually 21 sides because I miscounted so that
allows for screw-ups I'm cutting 3/8 inch box joints that's about 10
millimeters per finger and just to make the cutting a little bit easier I'm
actually removing some of the material on the return stroke with 8 or 9 notches
on each end of the board and two ends to each board and four boards per box and
10 boxes that made for 680 notches that needed to be cut but I cut about 50 of
those notches each time I loaded the jig so it wasn't so bad
quite often I just nail and glue the bottoms onto the drawers but this OSB is
not very strong and it doesn't slide very well so I'm going to insert it in a
dado and I've cut some test data was right here and it fits in this one and
usually I just cut my dedos by making multiple cuts with a table saw blade but
with ten of these bottoms there's 40 edges so actually have the dado stack
set up and here's all of my front and backs and I marked which edge is the
bottom for the so they cut them all on the bottom and
don't mess any of them up I figured it was best to sand all the edges around
before I assembled all the boxes that worked out real elegant
with a total of 10 boxes to glue up i glued up one corner of each box first i
put those aside to dry while they're square and daddle establish a square
reference for later and here I'm checking exactly how big the bottom
needs to be the data as I cut in his sides and her a rather tight fit for the
bottoms so I'm rounding over all the edges of the bottoms to be able to
squeeze them in there more easily
not everything fits perfectly the box joint determines the alignment of the
boards but unfortunately the slots don't always line up when these come together
in a corner there's just no room for the thickness of the bottom right at the
corner so what I have to do is carve out some of that just around here as I
assembled more boxes I got faster at putting them together but it still took
about 20 minutes to put each box together those box joints take more time
to assemble than it does to cut them
next I had trimmed the box joints flush on the table saw
I then rounded the corners in the belt sander it's too bad the belt sander is
not quite as tall as the boxes I've got ten bucks giant boxes made and the idea
is that these will sit in cradles like this because I'm not gonna make a whole
cabinet for them I still had to cut up the side guide parts of my drawer
cradles and I cut those out of some old scrap and then cutting them to length on
my table saw sled the cradles also have a notch on either end so I'm cutting
those out here there's 20 cradles - sighs sweet cradle - ends to each side
so 40 notches in all and then gluing those cradles together I'm gluing
together two at a time back-to-back that way I don't need quite as many clamps
got all 20mm glued together the uprights for this rack needs some dado spread of
them and because they're so big I just decided to use the router I'm making
another pass with a shim against my fence and that gives me just the right
width of dado and did I rip those two by sixes down the middle to give me four
uprights for the frame
the boxes are going to slide into a rack made of two ladders like this and to
keep those two ladders at constant distance from each other I'm going to
join in a few pieces like this
I don't really need handles on these because I can just reach in there like
that except for where I've got these cross
pieces that's where it's a little bit tight
after cutting the handles i standed and varnished these things which makes for
an awful lot of work for a storage in the basement but it sure is nice having
ten more places to put on junk