Well, I worked in my shop some this weekend (got MLK birthday off this year) and have been making drawers for shop cabinets. I have been trying to "rework" my shop some and build in more storage and upgrade some stuff so I had built several shop cabinets including a miter saw stand, under tablesaw storage, a router table cabinet, and the cabinet for my bandsaw.
I decided I would make all of the drawers at once and had laid out all of my cuts in Excel to simplify things. Unfortunately, I added a 1/2 inch instead of subtracting a 1/2 inch so all of the drawers were 1 inch too large. I had built the drawers with a drawer lock joint and had reinforced them with staples and glued them heavily as they are shop storage so I gave up trying to separate them.
I had bought all of the original plywood at Home Depot, what they call Sandply. I like it and it does well for like drawer sides and so forth. Unfortunately, my local HD has gotten to be a dump and they didn't have any plywood out and I didn't feel like messing with them so I went across the street to Lowes.
I bought 3 sheets of 1/2 inch blond plywood (looks almost like the sandply from HD) and took it home and started cutting. Well, now comes the issue. Every sheet of plywood varied in thickness by 1/32 inch. No 2 sheets were the same thickness. 1 was 1/2 inch, one was 15/32, and one was 17/32. I looked it all over and they were all the exact same brand, had the same stickers on them and the stack at the store was fairly new so it had not been filtered through. This was a PAIN to try and do drawer lock joints with, but I did it. Dovetails would have been a nightmare. My suggestion is to beware when you go and buy plywood and make sure the thicknesses are consistent especially the imported stuff.
PS - If any body needs any wood drawers/boxes I have 14 that need a good home.
I decided I would make all of the drawers at once and had laid out all of my cuts in Excel to simplify things. Unfortunately, I added a 1/2 inch instead of subtracting a 1/2 inch so all of the drawers were 1 inch too large. I had built the drawers with a drawer lock joint and had reinforced them with staples and glued them heavily as they are shop storage so I gave up trying to separate them.
I had bought all of the original plywood at Home Depot, what they call Sandply. I like it and it does well for like drawer sides and so forth. Unfortunately, my local HD has gotten to be a dump and they didn't have any plywood out and I didn't feel like messing with them so I went across the street to Lowes.
I bought 3 sheets of 1/2 inch blond plywood (looks almost like the sandply from HD) and took it home and started cutting. Well, now comes the issue. Every sheet of plywood varied in thickness by 1/32 inch. No 2 sheets were the same thickness. 1 was 1/2 inch, one was 15/32, and one was 17/32. I looked it all over and they were all the exact same brand, had the same stickers on them and the stack at the store was fairly new so it had not been filtered through. This was a PAIN to try and do drawer lock joints with, but I did it. Dovetails would have been a nightmare. My suggestion is to beware when you go and buy plywood and make sure the thicknesses are consistent especially the imported stuff.
PS - If any body needs any wood drawers/boxes I have 14 that need a good home.
