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  1. #1
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    Default Best timber for drawer sides

    hi all, I am in the process of making 10 drawers 45mm high for a collectors cabinet that needs to last a long time. Each side will be 250 x 45 x 12, and will have a 16 x 6mm slot to carry the timber runner screwed to the side

    Can anyone please suggest a really good timber for the sides and the timber runner? I would imagine something not too soft, and with an oily grain

    I would welcome all suggestions and ideas
    regards,

    Dengy

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    Check with your wood suppliers. Here we have a specific Poplar (Populus tremuloides) product called "drawer side."
    It is exactly 1/2" thick and 6" wide. Clear with good dimensional stability, often used by artists for wood cut printings, as well.

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    I used cypress pine from old floor boards to make a multi drawer cabinet a few years ago. The wood has an oily feel to it and is quite hard.

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    Tallowood perhaps? It is oily, but I am not sure of its weight for what you are after.

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    Drawer sides are commonly made from Tas Oak which seems to do the job admirably

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    I use Tassie Oak because it is a light coloured wood and sold quartersawn. The latter adds to stability.

    Regards from Perth

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    Default Tassie Oak it is!

    Thanks all. Based on the above sound advice, and availability of the timber, I just purchased some 12mm thick quartersawn Tassie Oak for the sides and to make the 8mm thick runners.
    regards,

    Dengy

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    Coming in a bit late, but you'll have no problems with what you've bought. You need a stable quarter sawn timber. I've used WRC which is pretty good. The best I've ever had was some larch from Russia, just after perestroika, when some commissar cashed in his superannuation stash.
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