Bandsaw Boxes Made Easy #5: Layout the drawers for easy cutting.

Draw the shape of the drawer on the body. Remember to think about the cut when you design your drawers. The idea is to make it easy to cut out the drawers in one continuous motion for each drawer. Since you are using a bandsaw, you aren’t able to avoid cutting through the sides of your project. In most cases, you can just glue the wood back together where you cut into the side and you will never notice. In some cases, you must cut into multiple sides of your box and glue the box back together. Some folks even leave the cut line open and emphasize it! If you ever want to make a bandsaw box that has a square drawer, this will require you to cut the body of the box apart and glue it back together later. My apologies on the second picture you can barely see the lines drawn for the heart shaped drawer. You can see in the last picture where we had to cut through the body to make the drawer. Enough talk, onto the pictures.