Weekend Warrior Woodworking Issue #1 December 2013 | Page 12

Step 4: Cutting the Faces of Your Drawer

After the heart is cut out you must turn it into a drawer. Cut off the back and the front of the heart. These will become your drawer front and back. You now have a frame, a heart, a back, and the sides to your drawer.

Step 5: Remove the Center of Your Drawers

Now cut out the center out of the heart, nothing fancy just cut out the insides with your band saw.

Step 3: Cutting out the Drawer Heart and Gluing Your Frame Together.

Start your cut on the outside into where you have your drawer heart. This will leave a cut in the frame. I cut out the heart of the drawers in any shape I want. If you don’t want to worry about straight lines, then don't make any straight lines. Make curvy and bent drawers. You should now have a back, an outside frame and the heart of your drawer.

Now is a good time to glue the cut in your outside frame back together so that you can sand the inside of your frame after the glue dries.