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<continued> The first drawer (my first drawer) I've always seen dovetailed drawers - everyone says they are the best.  It was now time for me to try my hand at it. Dad loaned me his Porter-Cable dovetail machine - new in the box - but no instructions.  It seemed fairly simple, place one piece of wood vertical, the other horizontal, then run the router w/dovetail bit thru the grooves.  It was a piece of cake on the 3/4" test pieces.  but, after many trial-n-error cuts on the 1/2"... I finally figured out the correct settings.
	Porter-Cable Dovetail machine
The wood has been clamped into the machine (rt side)			The wood has now been routed (rt side) creating the dovetails for one corner of the drawer - only 3 more to go.
	<- The dovetailed & grooved sides (for bottom) with the plywood drawer bottom in the middle WOW, it fit... the finished dovetail corner of my first drawer! ->
	The finished drawer (less the front)
	a couple of shots of the closed drawer, complete with drawer front.
		Notice the wave of the "curly" Birch in the photos above, compared to this one?
WOW - the drawer even glides in an out smoothly!!!
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