Drawer Lock Joint Bit

The grooves used to make up the locking rabbet drawer joint are 14 deep.

Drawer lock joint bit. And the joint is not only functional but attractive as well. A single bit routs both parts of the joint and is capable of routing joints for drawers with applied drawer fronts and for drawer boxes where the finished front is integrated. Im in the middle of building a nightstand. The drawer lock joint.

First cut the drawer side joint. Minimum material thicknesses for the drawer lock joint router bit are 34 for the drawer front and from 12 to 34 thick for the sides. There are many ways to make a drawer. With a little practice you can overcome the fussy set up the bit requires.

Then set the bit height so that the end notch on the drawer side about 18 for bit 7851 is the same as the end notch on the bit. When making a box type drawer use the same thickness. With 12 drawer material you simply subtract 12 from the desired drawer width. The unique geometry of a drawer lock bit creates a strong bond between perpendicular pieces.

For this project i chose to make my drawers using a small dra. For drawer lock router bits 5552 7852 and the katana drawer lock router bit 18850 the end notch on the side is roughly 316. Im not about to say one way is better than another. A single bit routs both parts of the joint and is capable of routing joints for drawers with applied drawer fronts and for drawer boxes where the finished front is integrated.

Unlike stub tenons made on a tablesaw the wedge shaped tenons created by a drawer lock bit self align both workpieces for a perfectly mating joint. As part of that i needed to make several drawers. Our drawer lock bit routs a joint similar to a locking rabbet but the rabbet is wedge shaped so the parts fit tighter when clamped. The grooves will be exposed and we want those to be hidden by the false drawer front.

Once the setup is right the joint can be cut very fast and the mechanical interlock the joint provides makes it very strong.