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Making the Drawer Cabinet Carcasses |
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I made the drawer cabinet carcasses (two of them) from 3/4" baltic birch plywood (on the right) for a couple of reasons. First, it was on sale for less than the oak veneer plywood! Second, the inside of the cabinet is not seen, and the outside will be covered with a sheet of 1/4" oak veneer plywood, so the birch color doesn't matter. Lastly, it's just great stuff to work with. It's strong and straight and hard. It's like regular plywood on Viagra! |  |
| I cut dados in the sides of the cabinet carcasses to accept the top and bottom. (I actually did this at the same time that I made the dados in the drawer boxes, using the same straight edge setup with my router.) |
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| I drilled pocket holes in the sides, tops, and bottoms to be used when I attach the face frames to the front of the cabinet carcasses. |
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| I predrilled holes for the screws to hold the cabinet carcasses together with a countersinking drill bit. Since the cabinet will be covered with 1/4" plywood, it was important not to have anything protruding from the carcass surface. |
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| After putting glue in the dado joint, I screwed the cabinet carcass pieces together. |  |
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Unlike the shelf carcasses, I decided not to dado the back panel into the cabinet sides, but just to attach it directly to the back edges of the cabinet carcass using glue and screws.
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Dadoing the back panel in gives you a better looking joint on the inside of the cabinet, but it takes more time, and it's not needed here since nobody will ever see the inside of the cabinet except for the occasional mouse. I'm not really concerned about getting follow-up business from rodents in this area. The only ones with real money are in Washington D.C. |  |
| And there you have it! A drawer cabinet carcass fit for a king, a playwright, a new retiree......anyone but a hypercritical rodent. |  |
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