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I use bench horses all the time to hold parts for gluing. Several drawers can be glued at one time. After applying glue to the bottoms, hold them in place with a few small brads or nails. Then stack up a few drawers and clamp them while the glue dries.This also helps keep the drawers flat.

When the glue has dried on the drawers, rout the V4" bead on the top and bottom of the drawer fronts. The drawer bottoms are the perfect thickness to accept the radius of the bead. (See below.)

After drawer is assembled, rout bead

Jf-— ¹/2"—^

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1⁵/8"

1/4"

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If necessary, fit the drawers by planing or sanding the sides of the bottoms that fit into the grooves to ensure the drawers slide smoothly. Then cut the plugs for the drawer pulls. I attached the pulls with an V8" dowel rod. Drill a hole in the center of the plug, and a matching hole in the drawer front. Glue the pulls in place, then sand and finish the chest and drawers. PW

Drawer profile detail

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