I didn’t get a chance to mention, but the Blum drawer slides have arrived. Holy moly, they are HEAVY. I pulled them out and now I can understand why they’re rated for 100 pounds.
The down side of their sturdiness is that they take up a lot of room. The upshot is that I’m going to lose at least an inch of space on inside height of the drawers because of the size of the slides. Normally, for drawers of the size I’ll be making for the armoire, I’d leave about 3/8″ to support the drawer bottom. With the slide size, I’ll have to leave considereably more so the slides can fit on the bottom of the drawer.
It’s a bit of a bummer because I had originally thought the drawers would be a little oversized compared to what I’ve seen for similarly designed armoires. That extra space is going to be used up accomodating the slides.
The good news is that I can definitely get some assembly done now. I’ll post pics when I can.