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a frame. So, the front joinery had to be hidden when the drawer was closed. The joints listed below are common router-made joints used in drawer joinery (many of these joints also were discussed in Chapter Four): • Reinforced Rabbets: These are sufficient for light-duty drawers (shown below in the inset drawer). Just rabbet the drawer front, then secure the sides in these rabbets with glue, nails, screws or pegs. This joint also is frequently used to mate the drawer back and sides. • Lock Joints, or Tongue-and-rabbet Joints: These work well for light- or medium-duty drawers. Cut dados in the drawer sides, and a tongue is formed when you cut a rabbet in the drawer front and back. Then insert the tongue in the dados. This joint (seen in the photo above right) can be used for the front and back joint in drawers, providing extra strength over a reinforced rabbet. Made using rabbeting, spline or straight router bits, these joints are a mainstay in commercial drawer joinery. • Sliding Dovetails: These are strong enough for medium- and heavy-duty drawers. Simply cut a dovetail groove in the drawer front with a dovetail bit in your router, then cut matching tenons in the sides and slide them together. It's unlikely to be used for any drawer joinery other than attaching drawer fronts. • Half-blind Dovetails: These are the traditional choice when you need A simple and very common drawer joint in commercial furniture is the tongue-and-rabbet (or dado-and-rabbet) joint. It's made by simply running a dado in the drawer sides and then rabbets on the drawer fronts and backs. Both operations are best made with a router in a table. heavy-duty drawers. The interlocking tails and pins offer an enormous amount of strength and they are relatively easy to make with a store-bought jig. Because they are "half-blind," they meet the requirement for being invisible with the drawer closed. • Through-dovetails: These are a close cousin to the half-blinds. While they are easier to create, these joints will be visible from the front of the drawer. Because of this, a through-dovetail is often used for the back joinery in a drawer, while the more complicated half-blind dovetail adorns the front. Half-blind tongue-and-rabbet Half-blind dovetail Inset drawer Overlay drawer Lipped drawer popwood.com 55 |
