cabinet glue up

I have had good results with just gluing and clamping 3/4” plywood panels together. I have also toe nailed into the non show side of the joint with an air nailer to avoid using a clamp in some cases.

-- I don't make mistakes, I have great learning lessons, Greg

If you can, glue up the sub-assemblies (perhaps your dividers) first,
tight and square. Better to do the glue-up in 2 or 3 predictable
stages than 1 crazy one.

At times, dry clamping the whole shebang won’t show you how to
glue it up all at once.

I usually use white glue for furniture because it has a long set-time.
Yellow sets about twice as fast, making glue-ups more hectic.

For the partition and ends,I normally use screws up through the bottom. Screwing into the edge of ply is usually not a good practice, but i feel in this case it is just pulling things up until the glue drys. If you attach the base to the bottom before glue up, the bottom should be very flat and will not require much pressure to seat the verticals. You may want to consider using cabinet squares like these to hold things square during construction. Check out Resurrected’s forum topic http://lumberjocks.com/topics/24020 best wishes

-- Lynn "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right". Henry Ford

a few kreg pocket screws work great and give you “instant” clamping

-- I cut it 3 times and it was still too short?!?

Thanks for the help— I think I see a good solution from the mix of ideas you’ve offered. I’ll assemble the bottom and divider first – that’ll be very easy. Then I can attach that subassembly to the sides using glue and nails on the bottom and pocket screws to attach the divider to the sides on what will be the drawer side (hidden) so there are no surface screws or nails. The big squaring clamps looks great as well. Not sure about the white glue – I’ve never used it. I don’t think I have a problem with open time.

What a great resource to have such helpful advice!!

Thanks,
DoctorJ