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Anthony Whitesell
10-06-2009, 11:45 AM
I'm trying to figure out how one would go about making their own drawer handles. Similar to this http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=556&filter=33324[/URL][URL="http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=556&filter=Rockler%20Outlet"] (http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=556&filter=33324&pn=33324)
Horton Brasses
10-06-2009, 12:36 PM
Hard to imagine you could make them for less than the $4.99 Rockler gets. Of course if you don't want Oak...
Anthony Whitesell
10-06-2009, 5:03 PM
Bingo. I need to make them of SYP.
Jamie Buxton
10-06-2009, 8:49 PM
Start with a long length of your SYP. Rout the recess with a plunge router, using a bit which can plunge, and which undercuts for the pull -- for instance the finger pull bit on this page http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pages/bt_door.html#finger_pull_anchor Use a template to guide the router.
Make lots of these recesses along the length of stock. Then form the swoop of the front face. You can do this with a cove cut on a table saw, or maybe with a router bit.
Then cut each handle off the long stick. Use a template and a router table to cut the outside shape of each handle.
Or you might could find that handle in pine of some sort. It probably wouldn't be SYP, but....
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