lr 32sys cabinet building

[Jonathans]

I am getting ready to build a slew of cabinets for the new shop, that will include a lot of drawer units.
I want to build quick, and am going frameless.
I am thinking about picking up a LR 32 system, and while I have seen tutorials that include making the
shelf pin holes, and door hinge holes, I cannot find anything that shows how to setup and drill for multiple drawer slides
with the system.  Would this require setting up the LR 32 with parallel guides?

 

[Brice Burrell]

No, you don't need the parallel guides, although they could be helpful for speeding up the process.  I use the regular LR32 setup to drill the from and back row of holes for the drawers slides. This allows me to index the slides so I can they drill the rest of the holes with a drill and vix bit.

 

[nclemmons]

While I'm not an expert, I've typically used the LR-32 rail to drill holes and as long as you have the spacing aligned to your drawer glide hole spacing, you just use those holes.  So not sure why you would need the parallel guides.  

i used the LR-32 on a shop cabinet and on a Systainer cabinet and both used drawer slides aligned to LR-32 holes.  

neil

 

[grobin]

If you are going to breakdown sheet goods with a TS55/75 for solid cabinets the parallel guides and rails are great.  Nothing at all to do with the lr 32sys.  You may want to take a look at the lee valley drawers.  You just cut kerfs and then slide in the drawers.  As for shelves I do open frame bookcases and use the Domino.  I don't mess with adjustable shelves as I know what size books are going into which cases.  If you figure out which things go where in advance having adjustable shelves is more trouble than it is worth.

 

[fortrout]

Dear Jonathans:
Believe it or not, Brice was probably too modest to suggest that you watch his video on parallel guides with the LR 32
here's a link
Festool parallel guide and LR32 guide rail used as a jig for 32mm panels

If you have a lot of boxes this will definitely make the job quicker.

 

[Pyotr]

Neat! On caveat (I think), if you flip over the panel as done at 4:10 its height must be a multiple of 32mm or the holes at the back will not line up with the ones at the front.

 

[Jonathans]

That is a brilliant video. Thanks Brice.  I imagine that you are correct that to use the front and rear rows of holes to index the glides, and then using the guides themselves as a template for the "inside" holes, would be a quicker work flow than re indexing the LR 32, or the work piece to drill the relatively few inside holes for the glides.  I love the jig you put together with the parallel guides, for batch processing.
I'm a newbie to the 32mm frameless system and am still trying to get my head wrapped around it.  My gut tells me that once I understand it and set up for it, I should be able to fly through future cabinetry projects.

 

[fshanno]

Looks like Brice has thought this through.  I'm a fan of Blum's Process32 which is not a balanced panel.  46.5mm at the bottom and 56.5 at the top on base cabinets.  Has anyone adapted the LR32 to Process32?