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I grabbed this photo from a video online about building boxes for the blum movento slides. Per specs you can only use 1/2 - 5/8 inch material. Where I’m located I can’t get 5/8 at the local store so am going to use 1/2 inch.

I have a lot of 3/4 left over material and wondering if I could use the 3/4 inch material for the front and back of the box. From my understanding the 1/2-5/8 material requirements is to fit in the space between the slides.

Unless I’m forgetting something, I should be able to use 1/2 material for the side pieces, and then 3/4 inch material for the front and back of the drawer box.

Measured like 5 times before making cuts. Absolutely nerve racking once I started. Bought a sheet of cheap plywood to do a practice run to iron out any errors.

Glad I did, my practice attempt I cross cutting the board to the correct width and forgot about toe kicks so when I ripped my two doors in the middle the toe kicks area was cut in half. Fixed this by ripping the whole board to the correct height of the cabinet doors and then I cut make one long continuous toe kick.

Used some plywood for a prototype to see and still am unsure.

Using Blum blumotion movento slides

Building some kitchen cabinets now and looking to do some walnut for the doors. I’ve been meticulously planning and laying out dimensions to make sure I can get my runs on 1 continuous sheet to match the grain.

What are everyone’s thoughts of running grain horizontally? I’ll box out my fridge and that will require to run the side panels vertically but other than that I plan to run everything horizontally.

Using frameless cabinets, full overlay. I’d like to make the gaps between the doors and other cabinets as around 1/16 between doors of the same cabinet and 1/8 between different cabinets (1/16 for each edge)

If I’m using 3/4 inch material and using the chart in the bottom left I need to use H 9 for frameless, it tells me the max boring distance (which I believe will give me the biggest overlay) is only 9mm compared to the 19 or so that 3/4 of an inch is.

I was originally thinking, If my cabinet with 2 doors is 31 inches wide from outside edge to outside edge would I cut the doors to be 31/2 =15.5 inches per door. Followed by subtracting the 1/16 on the outside edge, minus 1/32 for the door gap (the other door with have minus 1/32 to make a total of 1/16 inch gap) and minus 1/16 for two pieces of iron on veneer (each piece of veneer is about 1/32)

So total is 15.5 - 1/16 - 1/32 - 1/16

Looking at the Blum guide makes me think the max full overlay I can have is 9mm or .354 inches.