snowdog

I am making shop draws 26 extension full slides about 30" wide.

I am a bit new to furniture. I did mostly Decks, kitchens and baths in my former life.

I saw Norm A use 1/2 ply to create dove tail draws, so I went out to find 1/2 ply to work with and of course it splintered like mad when I tried to dove tail it <laugh>. I understand why, my question is what type of plywood am I looking for? Any suggestions on naming conventions and other inexpensive woods for draws would be great.

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gregW

I think most of the plywood drawers that I've seen with dovetails were made with baltic birch ply (more plys and less voids).

It's sort of expensive around here, especially for shop drawers...

Greg

curiousgeorge

Hi snowdog. For my shop drawers I have been using simple pine boards with hardboard bottoms. Cheap(er) and easy to work with.

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George

I did not chop down that cherry tree!!! But, since its down, can I have the wood?

kp91

Snow Dog,

I've put dovetails in baltic birch without too much trouble, but now prefer pocket hole screws or box joints. A big key to preventing tear out on plywood is to back it up with a backer board, and change out the backer board when it gets too chewed up.

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Doug
1 John 1:9

Drugstore Cowboy

Take it from someone who has learned the hard way --
If you go birch plywood --- dig deep enough in your pocket to get the good stuff from Woodcraft or Rockler etc -----
There IS a difference in the qualitfy versus what you would buy at the borgs.
My local wood shops were out of stock and I got in a hurry and bought the other --
Even WITH a backer board I had major trouble with tearout --

side thought -
Did you notice in a recent NYW episode building a cd cabinet -
- he used simple dadoes.