sliding dovetail assemply strategy
bill tindall
>I am near assembling a case with 5 sliding dovetail drawer dividers, both front and back, as well as a through dovetail rail at the top, again front and back. My inclination is to assemble and glue and square up the case with the through dovetail top rails and one front and back sliding dovetail at the case bottom (4 total pieces). Then add the rest after the glue for these first pieces is set and the case is stable and square.
I can think of several alternative stragies. This is my first case glue up with sliding dovetails so I don't have experience to decide what strategy is most successful.