I am currently building a router table. It is my first, probably my last, and the very first project I have made where I drew up detailed plans in advance. Everything has (more or less) been going great, but I have had to tweak a few dimensions just a tad. Today I started to install the drawers I made for it. It is a "Norm" styled table but I made it a little wider on the right side. Anyway, In the upper portion is a space where I laid out three drawers. The problem is, I drew up 19" of drawer depth for an 18" tall opening. &^%#
Fortunately this will be a fairly easy problem to rememdy since the bottom drawer was 2 1/2" deeper than the two over it. All I have to do is take about an inch or so off the top of that one and then there will be plenty of room. I might go a little more, or even make them all the same depth to give a little more space between each drawer too.
The "more or less" mentioned above was a good one, and I'm a little embarrassed to nention it. Maybe someone else can learn from it. I looked at, and measured, the slides on a few of my older projects, and one commercially made product (albeit a 40 year old one), and all of the drawer slides were 3/8" wide. I made all of the drawers, all 9 of them, counting on new slides to be 3/8" wide. Wouldn't you kow that now they are all 1/2" wide. No way around that one, I had to remake all of the drawers. Moral? Get the dang slides first!
Wayne