Small drawer
I'm making small drawers for a 2 sun cube drawer Japanese puzzle box. The materials I'm using are MDF board, natural wood, and thin sticks of Beech wood (about 4 mm). The reason I'm using MDF is because of the cost, to be honest...π
Since the drawer is small, it is not easily affected by humidity or temperature, so MDF works fine. However, MDF is very weak against water, so I don't use it for the main parts or the parts on the outside. Also, this drawer is hidden inside the puzzle box.
Despite this, I find MDF unattractive, so I use natural wood for the drawer fronts. The types of wood I use vary, including Nyatoh, Hoo and walnut wood. In other words, this small drawer has a total of six parts: two short side frames, two long front and back frames, one bottom panel, and one front handle (a thin rod).
Some of you may have noticed that usually, the side frame parts of a drawer are longer than the front and back frame parts. However, in this small drawer, the side frames are short. This is because the inside of the box is long horizontally. Due to the structure of the secret box, the mechanism parts are attached to the front and back. If I made it into a cube puzzle box, the inside would be long horizontally. This applies not only to this small (2 sun) cube box but also to larger cube boxes.
Additionally, this drawer does not have a lid because it's so small! It's quite difficult to make π So there is only "one step" of the moves of drawer. A 5 sun box and larger cube boxes usually have two steps (one step to pull out the drawer and one step to move the lid panel).
Someday, I would like to create a mechanism with more steps in these drawers (5 sun boxes or large cube drawers boxes). To do that, I would need to make the drawers a little bigger...π€
Despite this, I find MDF unattractive, so I use natural wood for the drawer fronts. The types of wood I use vary, including Nyatoh, Hoo and walnut wood. In other words, this small drawer has a total of six parts: two short side frames, two long front and back frames, one bottom panel, and one front handle (a thin rod).
Some of you may have noticed that usually, the side frame parts of a drawer are longer than the front and back frame parts. However, in this small drawer, the side frames are short. This is because the inside of the box is long horizontally. Due to the structure of the secret box, the mechanism parts are attached to the front and back. If I made it into a cube puzzle box, the inside would be long horizontally. This applies not only to this small (2 sun) cube box but also to larger cube boxes.
Additionally, this drawer does not have a lid because it's so small! It's quite difficult to make π So there is only "one step" of the moves of drawer. A 5 sun box and larger cube boxes usually have two steps (one step to pull out the drawer and one step to move the lid panel).
Someday, I would like to create a mechanism with more steps in these drawers (5 sun boxes or large cube drawers boxes). To do that, I would need to make the drawers a little bigger...π€
