I like having shallow drawers at a convenient height like these but they're already full so
I thought I take some of these boxes that I made to organize underneath the kitchen
cabinets maybe four years ago and turn those into drawers to go underneath this table here and I'll
just make a frame that they slide into because actually kind of like how they look here there's
gonna be three cradles side-by-side like this without a bottom and then the drawers slide on
them like this there's a missing corner here but that doesn't matter it's just the shape
of the wood I'm just gonna glue on one set at a time that way it's easier to keep things aligned
if I pull this drawer more than half way over I don't want to just fall out like this so I need
some kind of a top guide right here to prevent that from happening and I made this space are
just a bit taller than the drawers to help you position the top guide and glue it on here like
that this is the habit of sending wood debts than lying around for a while just I love it
before gluing because there will be a little bit of atmospheric surface ground on there and that
can adversely affect glue adhesion I did a test on that a few years back didn't record any of
it but it did make the glue joints noticeably weaker I got the cradles and the drawers here
but I need to make sure that the bottom of these doesn't kind of flex outside the side
and I figure it would look nice to have sort of a rail on the front like that just to kind of
visually tie them together but to screw these on on the end is easy enough I can just put a
screw in from the outside I don't want to screw from the front so I think I'm just gonna have
to come in at an angle like this and cut a notch here not a pocket and knotch now I have to figure
out how this will actually fit under the table this part is going to grow on here like this and
affect these parts of the table that fit in here which means I need to shorten this part off here I
also have to make sure those grilles fit along the back - okay time to fit this in the table
gotta check it with the drawer before I commit to it any further I fastened that back rail with
just two screws to fix the position and then it took that whole frame out again to get the rest
of the screw holes in on the workbench and now with the screw holes for mounting it drilled I
can put it back in I just put some 2 by 4's underneath the legs because that table is a
bit low and I also glued in some blocks in the back which acts as a depth stop to get
the drawers all flush on the front now I can put the top back on I made wooden drawer handles for
those drawers and it didn't film that part because I made a video about making drawer
handles just like these not long ago I added a little block on the back of these drawers so
that way they can hang out a little bit further cuz there's plenty of room in the back and add
my time lapse camera running well I've built that and I'm sure some of you are curious how long did
it take so looking at the actogram view this day here I'll just most over that that was preparing
for the materials and then building it here and then I still had to make some drawer handles and
put it in there and I also cleaned up the dust collector so the build of this thing for the
drawers itself was four hours and then another 45 minutes or so making the drawer handles and
then a lot of time just tidying up varnishing it I also emptied up my dust collector back
here while I was at it so total time was 7 hours but only 4 hours on the actual project itself