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I had made this rack some years ago with the intent on one day making drawers for it. Ironically it was the 300th post so I guess its only fitting that at the 3,000th post I finally get around to doing it 
Time flies, but at least my skills are a little closer to getting something like this accomplished!
Drawers are simple lock rabbet joints, three different sizes with the largest size getting a sliding tray to help organize the drawer. The drawers are sheathing plywood, 1/2" used about 2 sheets with minor scraps left. The drawers cut up real fast and were a pleasure to breakdown from sheets. I test fit each one before glue up - I knew that the plywood was not a consistent thickness, varied abit between sheets too and some hand planing was necessary for the joinery to work out. Assembled with glue and brads, most boxes were square within the 32nd or as best as I could measure worst one was out by a 16th.
The "facing" is a $10 sheet of underlayment sold by home depot. Meranti on one side and possibly birch on the other. I don't know of many sheet goods in this price range that are visually appealing so it was a no brainer. I used one side to hide the rails and stiles as well as the ball bearing drawer slides (fyi - CSHardware has a pretty good drawer slide for cheap!) and the opposite side for the inset drawer face. I will probably brush on a thinned coat of shellac to enhance the color and to help make it easy to keep clean.
Thanks for looking and thanks to Tom Clark for his inspiration!
Time flies, but at least my skills are a little closer to getting something like this accomplished!
Drawers are simple lock rabbet joints, three different sizes with the largest size getting a sliding tray to help organize the drawer. The drawers are sheathing plywood, 1/2" used about 2 sheets with minor scraps left. The drawers cut up real fast and were a pleasure to breakdown from sheets. I test fit each one before glue up - I knew that the plywood was not a consistent thickness, varied abit between sheets too and some hand planing was necessary for the joinery to work out. Assembled with glue and brads, most boxes were square within the 32nd or as best as I could measure worst one was out by a 16th.
The "facing" is a $10 sheet of underlayment sold by home depot. Meranti on one side and possibly birch on the other. I don't know of many sheet goods in this price range that are visually appealing so it was a no brainer. I used one side to hide the rails and stiles as well as the ball bearing drawer slides (fyi - CSHardware has a pretty good drawer slide for cheap!) and the opposite side for the inset drawer face. I will probably brush on a thinned coat of shellac to enhance the color and to help make it easy to keep clean.
Thanks for looking and thanks to Tom Clark for his inspiration!
sorry Db, just couldn't resist!
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