Hi Ness 

Had some offcuts a couple of spare tandem runners and the need for an extra drawer in the shed so decided to follow the video and make a drawer from scratch using a construction method slightly different to the video. I didn’t really know how to achieve what I wanted by using the software so I ended up just working everything out on a pen/paper so I thought Id show a couple of pictures and see if you can help me out next time I want to make the drawers this way. The video is great BTW.

I cut the front and back of the drawer 25mm shorter (in height pic 1)  than the sides. This was to allow for the 13mm recess for the runners and for the 12mm drawer base to be cut longer in length than usual and screwed through from into the front and back from the underside (pic 2). The benefit of this for me (when doing painted work) is not having to screw throughout the sides in into the bottom and showing the joinery (screws). It also means that no ‘notching out’ is required on either the front or back panel to take either the locating hook (pic 3) at the back of the drawer box or the front fixing bracket at the front.

This drawer was just for light items so on this occasion i just glued and bradded, but in the future I can make a drawer with this exact same technique using pocket holes through the front (hidden by false overlay front) and through the back (hidden behind the back) and through the bottom. again hidden.

Can you please take a bit of time and explain how I can adapt your video to make the drawers in this manner. I.e reducing the height of front back and extending drawer bottom by the thickness of front and back.

Last thing I could be wrong but I’d done a bit of research and when making drawers for tandem and it seems the drawer boxes need to be 10mm less in depth than the runner length this is so the rear ‘hook’ can locate in a whole that you need to boar in the back of the drawer back which secures the runner in place. I made my drawers 10mm less and they worked perfectly. Is there provision for this in the software or video or can you just tell the software what length of drawer box you want inside the carcass?