How To Build Wooden Drawer Slides

Step 2 fix wood drawers permanently with nylon drawer slide tape.

How to build wooden drawer slides. It just wouldn t be right to use metal drawer slides and for many of the things i build metal drawer slides would not even be suitable. Attach the drawer face leaving 1 8 gap on all sides using wood glue and finish nails and clamp it well. Saved by shane strickman. This dresser came with a simple metal c shaped channel attached to the bottom of the drawer box.

Jan 13 2012 new way of doing drawer slides. Although i am using a kreg jig to build this drawer the basic principles are the same using any other joinery method. There are dozens of styles of drawer slides available today but fortunately most old furniture typically uses one of only a handful of styles. A nylon drawer tape will put a stop to your issues with the hard to slide drawers once and for all.

I used a tape measure to make sure the slides were level and an equal distance from the bottom of the sides. Your aim is to stick nylon drawer tape to the parts of the wood drawers which get in contact with each other and cause issues due to low friction. The goal is to place the slides so that the top of the dado rests on them and the drawer bottom clears the lower stretcher by at least 1 8.