I made the drawers to go into this cabinet three shallow ones plus a deeper
one and I want to work out where to mount the drawer slides so that all
these drawers end up evenly spaced there's five centimeters of vertical
space left here and I'm going to spread these drawers so that they're all gapped
the same so with four drawers each one has a space above it plus the space
below the last one so five gaps which means I can have one centimeter gap
between everything and I want to mount the drawer slides so that they're flush
with the bottom edge of all the drawers so the bottom one is easy I just note
that one centimeter from the bottom the next one I need to work out what spacing
from here to here and that's just a matter of adding the fourteen
centimeters for this drawer plus a one centimeter gap and that space is reduced
by the height of that drawer slides comes to ten point five centimeters next
one is very much the same except it's a shallower drawer comes to 5.03 5.03 and
then hopefully that last gap will be just right
I stacked up my drawer slides with the spacers to make sure it all works out
and that the top one is the right distance from the top leaving the right
sized gap for the last drawer and now I can just glue these in place you know to
be confident that all the drawer slides will be precisely in the right spot
I don't really need pilot holes in this wood but I find with a small pilot hole
I have much more control over where the screw goes instead of mounting all the
drawer fronts relative to each other I made them all relative to the bottom one
and that way they're all consistent
normally I tweak the individual drawer fronts to make sure those gaps are all
the same because if they're off just a millimeter it really shows but in this
one I set them all absolute and the cool thing is they're actually
interchangeable and the gaps are still good now these drawers aren't all
interchangeable because the bottom ones are a little bit deeper and then this
one here actually has a different style of drawer slides because I ran out and
what I would do differently next time is I would make these spacer blocks
actually even thicker because they really help support the slides but some
of these slides need to be able to move in a little bit just to adjust for the
exact drawer width and I think well mounting the blocks I would tilt the
cabinet on its side a little bit so I wouldn't have to clamp the blocks and
the slides in place while I'm placing them and these are self closing slides
not that I really wanted that but were actually the cheapest I could find
and they're a little bit hard to pull initially but I dropped one of them and
broke the little pin that sticks out right here there's a pin that sticks out
and so one of these doesn't self close anymore so I've only got the self closed
mechanism on one side on this one and that actually is just about right so I'm
thinking I'm gonna break half of these pins on here to make the other ones easy
as well and what is this piece of furniture people have been asking on
Instagram well it's actually another workbench which I'm actually going to
swap with this one basically just a work table with lots of drawers for storage
I don't need a vise on my workbench because I'm not a hand to a worker