Drawer for a table, making wooden slides glide well

Adding a drawer to my little "lab table" that I built recently. I used wooden drawer slides for the simplicity and cost, but with wax and mineral oil was able to make the hardwood on hardwood slide really easily

[shenkerism]

Just wanted to leave a quick comment on how much I have always appreciated the audio mixing on your videos. Many youtubers put much less work into not ruining ears with routers, table saws and the like. The attention to detail shows through. Thanks a lot.

[Beschaulichkeit]

I think that it's very important that you show re-using scrap wood to this day. I remember that stood out to me 10 years ago when I started following your videos and it still stands out to me today. Thank you!

[FrederickDunn]

Hello Matthias! It's been a while since I stopped in to see one of your videos. You're setting an impossible example in all things engineering and woodworking as always! Thank you, for all you do and have done. I wonder if you would ever design the ultimate bee hive stand? :) I'd build that in an instant.

[cbalan]

Very nice build. A simple, and elegant solution. I also like how much history that one drawer from your job has. Thanks for giving us some insight into that.

[Thom]

Over the years of woodworking I prefer wooden slides for draws if applicable. Thank You for sharing.

[DonsWoodies]

I have two drawers under my workbench using wooden slides. Mine have a groove cut into the sides of the drawers (1/2" plywood sides) and a tenon I guess to call it for the runners. Did the same wax thing you did and it's quite amazing how easily they slide even after 2 years and a decent amount of weight in them. Love wooden slides.

[silasmarrs]

One of the reasons I always watch when you release a video is you never waste any of my time.

[comfortablyplumb]

Getting your video notifications in the middle of the day and saving it for chill times in the evenings, is like saving desert for last

[jocoseness]

Nice video!! I have always opted to use wooden slides when possible. My dad taught me the candle trick for getting them to slide better. Glad you showed that.

[LeesChannel]

Very pleased to see you use paraffin! When I was a child, my father always looked for wooded slides in furniture; he absolutely hated the metal slides you find in nearly every drawer (especially nowadays, although they are a lot more reliable now than they were in the 90s.)

[spokehedz]

Always amazed when the old job gets mentioned, and then a sigh of 'what might have been'. Candles, eh? Old tricks are the best tricks.

[raptrains]

An old trick I learned 50 years ago is to use thumb tacks on your drawer slides. Put a tack on the front end of the fixed slide and a tack on the back of the drawer slide. That way the drawer is only sliding on the head of the thumb tacks.

[sawyerrob]

I make my own slides too; I save the scraps of "Formica" left over from jobs and glue them to the mating surfaces of my drawer slides. They are super slick and last about forever, without any maintenace at all. SR

[VagabondTE]

This gives me an idea. I use a ton of Sterilite 6 quart totes. Over 300. I've been wanting to build a shelving system for them by cutting dados into 2x4s that they slide into. But maybe I could turn them into see through drawers. I can fit at least five of them on my desk. Thanks for the inspiration.

[viveksabharwal]

Wow, this is what I was looking for my desk that is basically a plyboard sheet on foldable iron angles. Will try it for sure.

[WPGinfo]

👍It has been done like this for 200 yrs so it works. It needs almost no maintenance, is almost free [scraps will do] and it is durable.

[wadewassenberg]

I love all of the custom tools, am jealous of your abilities... that box joint jig is really impressive. I will say though that I laughed that you box jointed the sides of the drawer and then simply glued and screwed the bottom on instead of cutting a groove or rabbet for the bottom. Not that there's anything wrong with that just that you chose one of the most complicated ways to join the drawer sides and the literal easiest way to attach the bottom 🤣

[paulstaf]

Wow, saw that old Viewsonic on your work desk....remember how nice those were back in the day.

[AbdicateDotNet]

You never cease to amaze me. I'm always thinking, "where can I buy...?" and you show me HOW to make it myself! Thanks sir! ⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍

[deldridg]

Wow - you're onto the next project and I'm about the start drawing up the drawer in Sketchup.