Making Wooden Drawer Pulls

Have you ever thought of making the drawer pulls for your next cabinet. If so this is the router tip for you. Don’t buy your next drawer pulls make them to match your cabinet use this technique and make your own.

Today Dad is making heart shaped drawer pulls in the drawer fronts of his next project. This is a bit tricky but once you get a handle on the process it very easy to make the perfect drawer pull every time. Check out this quick and easy router tip below.

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How to make the Pattern?

So Folks the last post has presented many questions about the making of the pattern and not about the router procedure.

Sorry, I can’t give out the step by step procedure of making the pattern as this is one of the modules in our paid Jigs and Fixtures E-Course.

But if you put your thinking cap on this is not really that hard to do. Let’s first inspect the pattern and then discuss what the procedure might be to make such a pattern.

What are the features of the pattern?

1) It uses a guide and a drilled hole as the pattern. In this case it’s a 1″ hole drilled with a Forstner bit. What is the most efficient way to drill 1 holes? The Drill Press, the router etc…

2) The holes are centered on a piece of plywood that is twice the width of shelf hole position for the cabinet side. If you want the holes on the side of the cabinet to be 2″ from the edge. How wide is the pattern plywood?

3) Next we need to determine the position of the first hole. How far from the bottom is the first hole? Remember this point determines the start position on the cabinet sides for the pattern location. FYI pattern location: It is flush to the edge and the bottom of the pattern is positioned at the inside edge of the bottom Dado. So where is the first hole? 6″, 8″, 10″ etc…you choose.

OK lets recap what we have,

a) The center position of the hole is determined by the hole distance away from the edge or in this scenario 2″ from the edge. Plywood pattern width is 4″.

b) What is the first hole position from the bottom of the pattern…for argument sake let’s say 8″. So the first hole is 8″ from the bottom edge and in the center of pattern width of 4″. Let’s set up the drill press to drill holes in the center of a 4″ piece with the first hole at 8″ up from the pattern bottom.

4) OK the drill press is set up now to drill holes in the center of the pattern but not set up to drill holes exactly positioned with equal spacing…Here are a couple of question to think about when figuring a way to drill the holes at a equal distance apart?

1) What do we have on the pattern to position the hole exactly equal distance?

2) How do we drill holes with equal spacing with a drill press?

3) Can we use the just drilled hole as a positioning pin for the next hole to be drilled?

and/or

4) Does it matter if the holes are not positioned exactly centered and equal distance?

If you have an idea on how to make this pattern please use the comment portion of this post to describe how you would do it? The more comments we have the better…please just comments about how to make the pattern.

Using your router to position your shelves.

Yes the router is the most versatile power tool in the workshop and if you add guides you have an amazing combination.

Today’s tip is about drilling holes with the router to set the adjustable shelf rests in place. It is important that all four rows of holes are in the same in position according to each of the corners. In order to get the shelves to match and sit level we use a pattern a guide and the router to drill the holes correctly. Watch this router tip to see how it’s done.

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Making Raised Panels with the Router

Have ever tried to make Raised Panels with the shaper before? If so you will know that the set up is really difficult but with the router it is a very simple process. More on that another time. Today’s post is about an easy way to figure the parts list to a simple raised panel door.

This video is an excerpt from Episode 212 of the Router Workshop. In this short video clip I go through some trick and tips to figure the parts list by hand and by computer. If you want to purchase a copy of the software you can get it at this link.

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