We recently found a dresser on the side of the road that was in pretty decent shape. It has some scrapes & nicks, but not too bad. The biggest problem was the drawer slides were cracked & pretty shot.
We decided to take the dresser home before it started raining. Then I got to work on crafting new drawer slides from scrap wood. We spent zero money on this restoration and one of our kids got a much needed dresser out of it.
The first step was to cut the new drawer slides to length, width & height.
Then we needed to add grooves so the drawer could hold on to the slide. This took two tries to get right. My first try cut away too much wood.
We put some bar soap on the new wood to make the drawers slide easier. It made a noticeable difference.
The drawers are now aligned properly and move smoothly. Thanks random neighbor!
