Drawer pulls

Re: Drawer pulls

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>Gee, Ernie...

Any sort of wood carved or shaped other than turned on a lathe, of course. I like T-shaped pulls for small contemporary cabinets. Krenov's books have a few ideas. I know I can think of hundreds of designs and materials. If, as you say, you're a haddock at heart, you may want to move beyond wood (and very likely beyond good taste, too, but it's fun), try 'found objects', such as:

Glass; rod, crystals, eyes

Rock; river stones, crystals, cabachon, slabs (cut with tile saw)

Oosic

Old fountain pens for a writing desk or pen box

Tubing

Bone; animal, human (someone you liked? Or didn't?)

False teeth

Antique keys

Lace bobbins

Spoons, forks, knives

Corset stays

I used ebony violin tuning pegs on a sheet music cabinet

Corian

Horn

Antler

Leather

Metal rod; square, round, hex

Stuffed voles

Just go crazy.

Re: Drawer pulls

Luke Herzberg

>On a couple guncases that my grandpa built he used rifle brass, primer end sticking out, with a small dowel through them for a T handle drawer pulls. Really fit the flavor of the guncase...might be an interesting accent for the shop too.

- Luke

Yep, and...

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>Seen that, along with fishing lures, belt buckles, coins, vials filled with spices and seeds. Bamboo sections, clay pipes (filled with epoxy). And the list goes on.

Re: Drawer pulls

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>I like to save up little bits of exotic wood lay them out and have a look see what comes of it.

Re: Drawer pulls

Ernie Miller Topeka

>Now you got me leaning to old socket chisels that have been beat on with out a handle. you know the onesevery one has a pile and wonder what the heck they were thinking when the did that to the poor thing.

Pen blanks...

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>...are great drawer pull stock. I like to slice them into three sections and interleave with bone, ivory, thin stone slabs, silver sheet, and so on. Glue them together, shape, mount with standoffs. Pink ivory, ebony, rosewoods, snakewood, desert ironwood - not too expensive when you use them for details this way.

The shop cats would appreciate

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>the stuffed-vole drawer pulls.

Re: The shop cats would appreciate

Paul M. in San Diego

>Funny Bill, I was thinking the same thing about the voles.

Now you've got me thinking too. How about carving the pulls to look like the category of tools in the drawer?

o A pencil on the measuring/marking drawer.

o A chisel

o A spokeshave

o A small plane

That would look pretty cool!

Strange, cheap tip o' the day

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>One way to represent what's in a drawer if the object/s don't lend themselves to easy three-dimensional representation:

Boil some new spuds in strong lye water (enameled pot), until they're delignified (much smaller and somewhat shriveled). This makes right passable "ivoire faux'. Saw in halves, shape, then try your hand at scrimshanding. Fill scratches with paint or india ink. If it offends thine eye, sand and try again. Mount on standoffs. Bob's your uncle.

Makes a nifty awl haft, too.

Re: Drawer pulls

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Let me see if I can describe this without a photo.

Take a 3/4-inch x 3/4-inch piece of wood, a couple of feet long. Remove wood (using your favorite method), so that the cross-section is trapezoidal, like a dovetail. Cut the board into 4-inch lengths, and screw the narrow side of the each piece to the drawer front. Voila! Drawer-pulls.

You can use a complex curve for the removed part, instead of just a straight chamfer, for a more pleasing and comfortable shape. Various sorts of molding planes would help with this.

What's a new spud?

Sandor in Boyds, MD

>Potato? Where do I get lye for the water?

I have no application for this but I am intrigued.

I'd like to try this just for kicks, grins and general ha ha's.

Sandor

cheapest idea yet

Jack from Maine

>You can't get much cheaper than a finger hole in each drawer front.---Crackerjack

Re: What's a new spud?

Dan Donaldson

>Get Red Devil lye at the local grocery. I should be in the area where they have stuff to clear pipes. Make sure it is not the stuff with aluminum filings in it.

Also, do not put it into an aluminum pan!!It will eat the pan and get pretty hostile. As was mentioned, either porcelain or glass container..

It does sound interesting. hmmmmm.............

Re: The shop cats would appreciate

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Dang! I just recycled some old VW parts that had been sitting in the dirt since my son was a VW fan - a good decade, in other words. They'd have been PERFECT for the drawers in my bench - little piles o' rust.

Nice idea for those lucky enough to have drawers storing one type of tool...

Actually, to be fair, Paul

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>that is a good idea. You'd instantly know which drawer to open to find the tool you need, or at least to find the space it occupied before you took it out and left it on the benchtop somewhere.

New potato, right.

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>Red Devil'll do it for the lye. Proportions? I've forgotten by now but I'll try to look it up. Probably the same as for delignifying such things as one makes paper from, such as your favorite backyard agave plant.

At any rate, lovely little ivory-like spudlets. My doc friend said they look ever so like those prosthetic teflon testicles they use to restuff (for cosmetic purposes) before 'closing' prostatectomies.

The usual disclaimers for safety: goggles, long rubber gloves, respirators - do this outdoors (making 'ivoire truqu�', not prostatectomies).

Re: Actually, to be fair, Paul

Paul M. in San Diego

>Bill,

Since I got it in my head, I can't get it out.

I've been meaning to try my hand at carving,

and this may just be the task to start with.

Belay that tip o' the day!

David Barnett - Venice, FL

>They say the mind's the second (or is that the third) thing to go (it WAS over ten years ago and I'm pretty sure I got it mixed up with my papermaking experiments).

No lye! No lie. Sulfuric acid. Sheesh. You'd end up with potato mush the other way. Pretty sure it was sulfuric acid for a long time, drain, rinse, sling to remove any lingering liquid.

In the interest of sanity (mine) and safety (yours), until I get my source right and properly posted, please avoid any such experiments.

My apologies for the poor chowder recipe.

Concur

Jorge Castañeda

>Cheap and zero maintenance.

Hey, Jorge...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Your last name has gone Greek (or possibly Aztec) again.

what language was that?

Tom Sontag - St. Louis

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Once again...

Bob Hackett

>If they`re good `uns,they can have a good home in Maine.As a matter of fact,I`ll trade you some old,bent wood boat planking spikes for them.Kind of a rust for rust thing.

I do like the idea of using those old crippled warriors as pulls though.They have a tortured sculptural quality representative of man`s inhumanity to tools about them.Besides,they can serve as a warning to the other tools to behave.

Sort of as a thank-you for the secret santa thing and keeping us all entertained with things like keeping the weekend projects post alive I`d be willing to make up a pull and challenge the other `Neanders to do the same.This way everytime you go to the bench you will still be reminded of us here on the forum.A WC under-bench toolbox,anyone else game?

Mainely,Bob

good idea Bob

Jack from Maine

>I'd contribute a pull. I have junk(accessory) boxes with all kinds of interesting objects in them.I'd say keep to a size limit and avoid obviously dumb or obnoxious looking objects.---Crackerjack

To start things rolling

Bob Hackett

>Let me know what the min and max size you can use is Ernie.I need length and width and I`ll whip something up.Any preference as to 1 or 2 screws to hold these on?

I guess,to be polite,I really should ask if Ernie`s interested in us dressing out his cabinet first.How about it Ernie?

Mainely,Bob