Tool Chest Build 04 - The Rails

Ok after I finished the horizontal dividers from the last post I moved onto the vertical rails. The tool chest has 4 vertical rails the back of the chest has 3 and the front 1, why? well the chest is divided into 3 sections, 2 drawers and a top section that will be accessible from the top lid.

This picture shows the side panel with all the grooves cut into it. You can see the 3 sections and how only the back gets grooves for vertical rails because in the front the drawers will cover those areas.

This next picture shows how the rails get a rabbet cut into them that will fit in the grooves.

Here are the parts I am working on now. The sides and the rails.

Here is how the rails fit into the grooves and will look like they are just flush.

Here is how all the rails will fit into the sides... understand that this image doesn't have the horizontal dividers yet but shows how all this will look once the dividers are in the grooves.

With these rails done I now have all the main case parts below you can see starting from the left:
1) Bottom Panel with through dovetails joinery.
2) Horizontal Dividers (2) with sliding dovetail joinery.
3) Case Sides (2) has all the joinery needed, dovetails, sliding dovetails, dadoes for the rabbets.
4) Top Rails (2) the top front and back rails with rabbet joinery.
5) Bottom Rails (2) the back bottom rails also with rabbet joinery.

With all these parts now done, I can sand and then start the glue up. It's going to be a bit tricky because it all has to be done in the right sequence starting with the bottom panel dovetails, then the first back rail, then the bottom divider, then the second back bottom rail, then the second horizontal divider and last the top rails both front and back. I will be using hide glue because that will give me about 20-30 minutes of open time and I think that is going to be close. Update on how it went in the next post... Stay Tuned.