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I’m building a chest of drawers and want to install centered wooden dovetailed drawer guides. The drawer material is soft (aromatic cedar with 1/4″ cedar plywood bottoms and the drawers are 36″ wide so I need the additional support. The sides of the drawers have maple runners glued to the bottom. I can’t figure out how to align the center dovetailed guide so that the drawer touches at all three points. For instance,if the drawer “sticks” with the center guide installed, should it be thinned down or is this an alignment problem? Thanks
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James,
That's a pretty wide drawer..........
Any additional surface contact areas or points you add to the equation will increase the likelyhood of the drawer sticking"
On that wide of a drawer I would go with two guides but not on the ends.
Or, beef up the front and back pieces enough to take the weight of the span from the sides.
Jack.
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