Homemade Rear Drawers

Hey guys, heres a set of drawers I knocked up on break, they cost me around $200 to make and took about 6 hours over 3 days. I had my brother make the bent steel angle lengths to protect them from damage during loading and unloading and he also made the handles out of ally rod. The wood is marine ply covered in marine carpet that is glued and nailed on in some sections. I think I will add some tie down points to the top at some stage and im still deciding what to do with the side sections where the wheel arch is.

I forgot to get a before shot but the top is just resting there at the moment

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...208_141814.jpg


drawers made, just installed the slides and making sure theyre nice and smooth.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...209_154625.jpg


Top installed

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...209_154703.jpg


Carpeting begins

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...209_172617.jpg

Front of Drawers

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...210_122726.jpg

Inside

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...210_122721.jpg

All together

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...209_204614.jpg

Installing the steel angle, i dont like the corner on this and I may end up getting another piece of steel that is long enough to bend at the corners like how i have done to the drawers.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps9f839f9f.jpg

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps413a90c1.jpg

On the top of drawers as well

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...psd14c958d.jpg

All finished for the moment

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps35c606b9.jpg

Installed in the back :)

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...psde9afd2c.jpg


Now that I have made them i think they may have been too tall, I didnt actually draw anything up I just measured the floor area and built up from that and made them to line up with the rear plastic pockets.

Just in case youre wondering there is around 250 screws in there. :)

very nice work mate

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Lovely jubly mate.......

Looks good mate, job well done and thanks for sharing

Looks awesome good work

nice one mate, if you dont want to replace the angle just get some corners to put on it might be easier


http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=co...r:16,s:0,i:136

Thanks guys and megatexture thats a good idea thanks mate

nice work mate. There was another post onhere only a few monthe ago where someone made some neat boxes to go over the wheel arches. see if I can find it.

No worries mate. looks good though, I'm thinking I may make similar so it can be removed easily .

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Originally Posted by Jodaniels

Now that I have made them i think they may have been too tall, I didnt actually draw anything up I just measured the floor area and built up from that and made them to line up with the rear plastic pockets.

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Will be interesting to see if get used to and happy with the height. I think they need to be this sort of height or else the drawers end up being too small and are useless. They look great and came up really neat.

The pic makes it look like a cargo barrier is needed though. Anything sitting loose on top is now begging to smack you in the back of the head as there is not much seat to stop anything going forward.

Looks good - that height is great. I think when drawers are too small they become of limited value