12 drawer shaker style wall cabinet error in published cut list?
I am a fairly new woodworker and decided to attempt the 12 drawer cabinet using the
Measured drawing and cutlist
for 12-drawer Shaker-style
wall cabinet
by Chris Gochnour
Puzzling over the drawer construction and planning to use dovetails rather than rabbets I believe that there is an error in the cutlist and diagram I downloaded from the site. Surely the height of the drawer backs should be 4 9/16 not 3 9/16 as in the cutlist and on the diagrams. 4 9/16 plus 1/8 for the dado for the base plus 1/2 for the gap between the drawer bottom and the lower edge of the side pieces gives 5 3/16 which is 1/16 off the height of the drawer sides at 5 1/4. If you were to make up the drawer back as in the download there would be a 1 in gap somewhere?
The exploded view shows the back of the drawer as the same height as the sides and this is the way it seems to be in the video tutorial.
If this is an error it might be worth pointing it out yo Chris Gochnour so that he can alter the plan. If on the other hand I am being dumb would someone please point out my error. many thanks
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The cut list and the drawing both show the drawer sides to be 5-1/4 in. tall. the drawing shows the top edge of the groove for the bottom to be 1/2-in. up from the bottom edge of the drawer side so I make the drawer back out to be 4-3/4 in. tall.
12 Drawer shaker style wall cabinet error? Thanks
Many thanks for your quick reply and helpful drawing. I am relieved that it seems to have been an error in the drawing/cutlist rather than me not understanding these correctly. As a newcomer to the craft one always tends to believe the drawings and think that it is you that is making the error.
Let us hope the message gets to Chris G so that he can amend the drawings in the download
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