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Stainless Steel Drawer/Door Pulls

Over the last six months, I put my hobbies of metalworking and woodworking to good use while remodelling my kitchen.

The commercial stainless steel pulls I liked were way out of my price range (~ $2600) so I figured it would be a fun project to make them. Well, it turned out to be more tedious than anything, but learned a lot and put my ancient Seneca Star lathe to good use (included is a picture of the lathe).

I used 1/2" 303 stainless for the handles and 3/8" for the standoffs (threaded for 8-32 screws). The total cost for materials was around $300.

About the cabinets: I made the cabinets using rift-sawn Red Oak for the frames and quarter-sawn ply for the panels and cases.

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-Aaron

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akushner
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Nicely done. What's the countertop material?

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Jim Stewart

Thanks.

The countertop is black granite that goes by Absolute Black. I had initially wanted soapstone, but the local importer was playing games and selling all the good pieces to designers outside business hours (or at least that is my guess as I went 3 months in a row on the day new shipments arrived and everything nice was sold when I'd walk in the door at 9am. And they supposedly didn't take orders/holds).

But I'm happy with the granite, though it is hard to keep clean with a wife that likes to cut brie on the countertops.

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akushner

Nice work.

Mark Rand RTFM

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Mark Rand

Nice work. Those cabinets came out beautiful. Ww88 (who is both a woodworker and a metalworker)

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woodworker88

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Very nice job.

Now about all those taxes you owe on the money you made, and the re-assessment of your house because of the improvements...

Unka George (George McDuffee) ..................................................................... The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher. Refutation of Helvétius (written 1773-76; first published 1875; repr. in Selected Writings, ed. by Lester G. Crocker, 1966).

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F. George McDuffee

Very nice. You might get a kick out of the comparison to the hardware I made several years ago. There must be about 30 handles, no two are alike. Everyone in the family got to design a few.

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Ned Simmons

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Ned Simmons

Aaron,

Very Nice!

Ned,

I can't help but wonder if opportunity to leave messages around the house in Morse was missed there! :-)

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

A la Madame Defarge?

Ned Simmons

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Ned Simmons

I had to DAGS the ref, as I was not familiar with it.

I would advise AGAINST a list of that nature. :-)

I was thinking more like labelling the cupboards with appropriate (or not) labels or instructions.

Stuff like: Close me. Use First. Good food. No cookies for you. All Mine.

I'm sure you could think of a few like that that would fit.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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