Evening up insert drawer fronts?

[Chems]

 

[xy mosian]

Ain't it a bummer when that sort of thing happens. Of course you have tried each drawer in both tables?
Nice tables by the way.
I would go for trimming the front and trimming the offending side. That way you don't lose too much from either.

HTH

xy

 

[Chems]

I think it may be down to my clamping, I clamped the tables up in one go, but I should have done it in sections, could just be one of those things, wood isn't perfect!

 

[xy mosian]

I remember when I was first shown the 'skewed' clamping trick to square up a frame, What a revelation! It certainly made me realise just how easy it is to get things off square when clamping up. Still as you say " ... wood isn't perfect! ... ".

Let us know how you get on.

xy

 

[OPJ]

I think I'd try and plane something off one of the back corners, so you can bring the front edge on that same side around a bit. I agree that you don't want to taper the drawer front, if you can help it. At least the drawer sides (and back) are less visible it might help to stop them catching on the back legs as well. :wink:

Are you looking to set them flush with the drawer rails or have them back about 1mm?

 

[head clansman]

hi chems

unattach the top skew clamp the framework with the drawer in it till you lose the difference with the front face and refix the top . hc

 

[Chems]

Intresting HC, might pull open my joints thou couldn't it?

 

[Mr T]

How are the drawer bottoms fitted? Do they slide in from the back? If so you could try making up a new bottom that is slightly skewed so that when it is slide home it corrects the skew in the drawer. This will work better if the drawer bottom is veneered ply or mdf as solid will move.

Just a suggestion!

Chris

 

[maltrout512]

As it's only 1 - 2mm out could you not rectify the problem by over clamping across the draw (front side that sticks out/across to opp side rear). Then using a hot air gun heat up the joints and side that are clamped. Leave to cool over night, unclamp and fit. I have used this more than once in restoration work and had a good success rate.

 

[Chems]

Just thought I'd update this, the drawer bottoms where fully fitted in at gluing stage, there would be absolutely no chance of clamping them out of square, they are domino'ed at the back and a very deep dovetail at the front. I'll just have to be more careful next time when gluing up the table.

So I tried 2 methods I'd been thinking of, on one I added a wedge to even it up as its rammed home, this worked very well but once in about ten times it sort of catches as I'm closing it, bit of wax will sort it I should hope. The other one was very very nearly in line so I decided to plane it out. Worked well but I wouldn't do it again as it would be all to easy to make the edges of the drawers look wrong.

Thanks for all the advice!