Empirically and in my humble opinion, drawers with finger joints and applied moulding or face are strong and versatile as well as easy to make on a combination machine. That paper describes a way of machining multiples drawers together.

I start squaring the boards on the table saw or with a more conventional method then cross cut the needed length and joint the bottom panels.

I usually locks a stack of grooving cutters on the spindle moulder shaft but a single saw blade would work the same. Here a sacrificed block screwed on the mitre gauge and a spacer against the infeed plate of the fence enable for various lengths to be cut together. I glide several sides on the table until they reach the spacer then clamp the pile against the sacrificed block and go through the cutter head with the help of the sliding table.

The bottom groove when between two fingers is straight machined along the continuity plate and the adjustable stop blocks makes easy the dropping-on operation required when the groove and the finger heights matches.

The bottom is rebated since its thickness overcome the five millimetres groove by three millimetres. A spacer between the two plates that I also stick on the table with tape guides the bottom along the cutter.

Here is the assembly after making the chamfered applied moulding or the coved one. Another way is to merely screw a face through the front side of the drawer.