Drawer Joints Table Saw

In this video ill show you how i prepare and setup for the 3 cuts needed in this joint.

Drawer joints table saw. Set the blade 14 above the table. A lock joint is a good drawer joint because it holds together tightly as the drawer is moved. If you were making an overlay drawer the front would need to be rabbeted for the necessary offset and the fence reset to run the drawer fronts. Building your own drawers is useful in many situations no matter whether youre making a dresser nightstand or build in cabinet its a good thing to know how to build and install drawers.

Use a 14 dado stack for this project. Set your dado blade to cut the blind rabbet exactly half the width of your stock and adjust the rip fence to be the same distance from the blade. Use a miter gauge to guide the cut. With one table saw setup and a dado stack you can build drawers all day long.

Just like the smaller one i built ill be using half blind lock joints for the drawer joinery. The locking rabbet drawer joint is a pretty easy method for drawer building if you have a table saw or two. Set the fence 14 from the blade edge. Place a drawer side outside face up on the saw.

Blind cut rabbets are easy to cut in quick succession with a table saw but they are also impressively strong. Although you can build drawer joints using any number of methods we think lock rabbet joints like the ones below make sense for attaching the sides fronts and backs of most drawers. Wood magazines jeff mertz shows you this technique in building great cabinet doors and drawers. It would be nice to have one dedicated for a dado stack so i dont have to switch blades constantly.

This drawer method is so simple it should be illegal. Make em quickly and easily with your tablesaw. I seriously am considering buying a small second table saw. Im going to use my box joint jig which goes on the tab.

Making drawers with box joints on the table saw.