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thai you will be usingtoscparatc the drawer openings. Thisdimension is not import ant a* kmgas all t he blade* are ident k al in thickness; V Is typical. Now starting at the top of the case opening, carefully step off five timeswithyourdividcrsand make a temporary reference mark. Set t hose div iders, askk for now. and use the second set of dividers to step off the remaining space below your reference marks by the number of drawers, in thiscase three You may have to step this off several times and make minor adjustments to the divider points until you have it in three equal divisions.

This is now your basic drawer unit and the height of the (op drawer. Co back to the

lop of the ease opening and use this scttng with your square to mark the bottom of the topdrawer. Use the other net of dividers (>et to the thickness of the drawer blade) to by in the first or top drawer blade. The nud-dlc drawer opening is the height of the top drawer plus the thickness of a drawer blade You already have this if you combine the setting on your two dividers Mark the second drawer blade below the middle drawer and the bottom drawer will automatkally be the correct height.

Quick Application

It's actual ly much quicker to do this layout than explain M. Typically I can do this laycut In less than two minutes. Why did we «an by counting down five dtawrr Made umls to begin with? Let's back up a little.

What we arc doing is filling ihc ease opening with drawers and drawer blacks If you think about it. the three drawers are really idem leal in height except two oft htm have tnvisibk drawer-blade thicknesses huh

into their height to make them taller. The middk drawer has one drawer blade built into it, and the bottom drawer has two blade heights added toUs height. Sotbenlet'scount up the drawer blades that actually help fill the case opening

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blades, then a third built into the middk drawer, and t wo more in the bottom drawer bringing the total to five (two actual blades, plus one middle drawer, plus twx> bottom draw ers adds up lo a total of five). Because we can set our dividers to the actual thickness of the drawer blades, we can quickly determine how much of the case opening the drawer blades will occupy. Knowing that, we can determine our basic drawer unit by divtdinglhe remaimngspjcc by the numberof drawers. That drawer unit isalso the height lor the top drawer.

If you choose to add another drawer ami make it a four-drawer arrangement, ihe sequence Is the same except we step off nine drawer blades, then divide the rcmain-

Short division. Step oil toe drawer-blade units and nuke a temporary reference mart. Divide the remaining space by three - this setting Is you>

Top draper. I drawer unit to lay out the top drawer.

)int add blade, t he blade dreidet to lay out the lop drawer blade.

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