Making Lipped Drawers with a Dovetail Jig
Making Lipped Drawers with a Dovetail Jig
By Tom Caspar
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You can do more with your half-blind dovetail
jig than meets the eye. You’ve probably used it
to make drawers with plain, inset fronts, but
it’s really quite simple to make lipped drawer fronts, too.
Even though most dovetail jigs are basically the same, some
of their manuals don’t go into much detail about how to
make this variation of the basic drawer (they often call it
a rabbeted drawer, which is confusing). Whatever kind of
jig you have, here’s a foolproof process for making lipped
drawers from beginning to end.
2. Cut rabbets to |
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3. Check the fit of sample dovetails made with your jig. Adjust the router bit up or down until you make two Adjust the jig’s template in and out until you make two |
4. Place both drawer sides in the dovetail jig, inside out and The bottom edge of every drawer part butts up against the stops on the jig. |
5. Rout dovetails |
9. Dovetail one drawer Sand all the inside faces of |
This story originally appeared in American Woodworker December 2000, issue #84. |
Purchase the complete version of this technique story from AWBookstore.com. |
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