Making drawer boxes

[peter@alohacabinetry.com]

Hi, I'm in the market for a ShopBot and wanted to build drawer boxes. Has anyone tried making decorative drawer box joinery, like Dovetails, Boxjoints, etc.? Thanks, Peter

[rgbrown@itexas.net]

Peter,

Dovetails and box-joints are structural. I have cut dovetails on The ShopBot.

Ron

[davidallen]

I've cut dovetails, box joints, and 'dogbone' joints.

anything you can route with a template or pattern, you can route with at shopbot.

da

[bjwat@comcast.net]

Correct me if I am wrong, but you'd have to position the dovetails towards the ceiling in order to cut them, right? This would limit the length of the drawer to the Z clearance under your bit....Right?

-Brady

[kerrazy]

Not if you fashioned a vice at the end of your x hmmm.

Dale

[gerald_d]

...or cut a slot through your table.

[rgbrown@itexas.net]

Slot throught the table and a hole in the floor, IF needed. Otherwise plan a machine that can have a horozional axis router. Then you would be limited by the length of material one could load.

Gentelmen, you are limited ONLY by your imagination.

Ron

[davidallen]

I used a vertical vise, it was demo'd at the NJ camp shopbot, 3 years ago. of course if it can't be done, obviously I didn't do it.

[mrdovey]

But, of course, it obviously can. Here's a picture of my first try at a drawer joint using a 40+" dovetail clamp on my 'Bot:


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Morris