Materials for making custom drawer boxes vary depending on your individual taste and the budget for your project, but plywood tends to be the most popular choice. A 4-foot by 8-foot sheet of ½ ...

The best plywood for this is ¾-inch because it’s a quarter-inch wider than the slides themselves, giving the drawer a lip to rest on (that’ll be important later).

We built our tool-box out of 3/4-in.-thick D-Select pine -- a grade that's just about knotfree -- and 1/4-in lauan plywood for the drawer bottom. Two 6-ft. lengths of 1 x 10 pine will do the job.