Wineador build

[Demuths1770]

For the drawer front I ran a rabbit on the bottom and dados on the side so it fits snug onto the drawer base and sides

[Hardheaded]

That certainly seems simple enough. Thank you.

[Demuths1770]

That certainly seems simple enough. Thank you.

it was simple. i did all the cuts for the drawer in just around 2 hours. the hardest part was doing the tongue and grove cuts for the sides of the drawer. i think you could cut all the boards in a half a day once you had it all set up and than it would be a matter of gluing them up. i also didnt pull the miter saw out so i had to constantly make changes on the table saw which took more time as well. i also am going to look into a zero clearance throat plate for my table saw to help make some of the cuts safer and eaiser

[Sticky B]

How thick is the wood you are using? I'm trying to gear up for my own shelf construction, and any further details you have would be immensely helpful!

might I add, do you know your interior dimensions on the wineador? and what are the dimensions you used for the wood/ of the completed drawer?

I know my cooler is a unique size, but trying to figure out how much clearance to give and such is giving me a headache. Wondering how much you left on the sides and back for air movement.

If using 1/4 for bottoms as suggested above, would you still be able to use the same construction method?

I'm considering doing 1/4 bottoms and 3/8 sides - was gonna go 2 inches like you said, because the wood comes in 4in widths, so good usage. But after checking, my large drawer-style humi is 2in high for the drawers, and honestly I only get them 2 high. 3 cigars would make it real tight between drawers clearance-wise and I don't want my cigars scraping on wood every time I pull a drawer, so I'm debating going 2 3/4 for height, hoping that gives me safe room for 3 gars high. 3 inches is too high for my drawers to fit in the wineador nicelly, also, have to add that 1/4 piece the walls sit on, right? It's these things that always end up messing me up with building projects...

[Ilroy]

Looking at your pictures, and from my own drawer build for my wineador, I will make a suggestion. If you are planning on using wood as thick as you have for your mock up, it really isn't necessary. If I were to do mine again, I would go no thicker than 1/4" for the bottoms and 1/2" or less for the sides/fronts. I would also go 3" tall sides instead of 2" like I did...I'd fit alot more sticks in mine if I had gone that route.

Looks like a good solid and usable design though.

[Ilroy]

Wondering how much you left on the sides and back for air movement. I probably have 1/4" - 1/2" on sides and back

If using 1/4 for bottoms as suggested above, would you still be able to use the same construction method? You could use very similar construction. I was thinking if I did it again, I'd just have the bottom slats hang past the sides to use as the part that fits in the cooler slots. You could do the sides/fronts/backs the same as Kyle and then either glue the bottoms to the box, or nail it with brads. I used brads to join all mine together on my build, and would probably do the same if I did it again.

I'm considering doing 1/4 bottoms and 3/8 sides - was gonna go 2 inches like you said, because the wood comes in 4in widths, so good usage. But after checking, my large drawer-style humi is 2in high for the drawers, and honestly I only get them 2 high. 3 cigars would make it real tight between drawers clearance-wise and I don't want my cigars scraping on wood every time I pull a drawer, so I'm debating going 2 3/4 for height, hoping that gives me safe room for 3 gars high. 3 inches is too high for my drawers to fit in the wineador nicelly, also, have to add that 1/4 piece the walls sit on, right? It's these things that always end up messing me up with building projects...

Measure out exactly how much room you'd have for height of drawer sides and go with that. I am just guestimating 3" for what I'd do with a new build, but it might be slightly less than 3"...?

[Demuths1770]

Looking at your pictures, and from my own drawer build for my wineador, I will make a suggestion. If you are planning on using wood as thick as you have for your mock up, it really isn't necessary. If I were to do mine again, I would go no thicker than 1/4" for the bottoms and 1/2" or less for the sides/fronts. I would also go 3" tall sides instead of 2" like I did...I'd fit alot more sticks in mine if I had gone that route.

Looks like a good solid and usable design though.

this was made with 1/2 inch boards from pallets i had for some other projects. i plan on going with either 3/8 or 1/4 inch for the construction of the base and drawer sides as well and i am still doing to build it the same way as well. the tongue and grove would be a little harder to do with 1/4 inch since the grove would probably only be around an 1/8 of an inch wide leaving a 1/16 on each side but i think i could make that work. my wine cooler is about 20" tall 15-16" deep and 17" wide. the drawer front is 3.5 inches tall and 1/2 an inch is covering the base so i cant do 3" high drawers and the wood i am looking at is 4 inch wide so i was going to split it to get 2ish inch slats to use. im still debating on just making the base out of spanish cedar and the drawer sides and front from mahogany. the drawer i built is 16.5 inches wide and 1 foot deep. i wanted to make sure i had at least and inch in the back for air movement with how large this wine cooler is. i have to also shim the left side of the wine cooler shelve slats because when the door opens it dose not open flush. i can get more pictures tonight of everything and the actual drawer in the cooler as well!! thanks for all the feedback support and complements!!

[Demuths1770]

So here is a 2 year old bump but I'm not gonna start a new thread. I have finally reached the point where I am out of space and still have events and cigars coming in this year and it was time I did some wood working for myself. I ordered the spanish cedar more than a year ago and had it sitting next to the wine cooler this whole time. I revamped my design some and made some small changes and last week started cutting the wood down. This week I'm going to focus on getting all the bases built and go from there. Instead of going straight across I am going to try a diagonal like pictured below

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[Sticky B]

Ha! I win! You started first but I beat you! Only took ME about 2 years.... so we know how long you've been screwing around

Congrats on picking back up on your project though, excited to see how it turns out!

[Demuths1770]

It was never a rush back than because I had space or was willing to sell a few to make space but now I am out of space so the crunch is on. Plus in two years I have done enough wood working that I have picked up some good tricks and tools to help that I didnt have back than. I'm hoping to have 4 drawers minus the fronts and 1 shelf done by the end of this week. We will see if that happens though lol. I'm still debating what I want to do for drawer fronts. I was thinking liga boxes would be cool since i have some laying around but they are just a few inches too short unfortunately. I think i may just go w red oak

Ha! I win! You started first but I beat you! Only took ME about 2 years.... so we know how long you've been screwing around

Congrats on picking back up on your project though, excited to see how it turns out!

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