TerryMcK Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 Well not quite as I still have to make the drawer pulls! I have started a blog (yet another woodworking blog I hear you cry!) and there are a few photos of the COD on it plus some of my other work. Hope you like it. Terry http://tmcwoodworks....of-drawers.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewoodwhisperer Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 Well done Terry! Can't wait to see what you come up with for the pulls. Doing something different or are you going to make the ones from the video? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodger. Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 I thought you meant you completed the game "Call Of Duty" (COD)! Either way, nice project! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransikaner Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 A fine effort. Thanks for sharing, Terry! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewoodwhisperer Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 Prestige mode! w00t! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted July 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 We have decided on this sort of style. In oak (same as drawer fronts) standing slightly above the surface to create a shadow line as shown in the rough Sketchup representation. There will be one centrally mounted in each of the top drawers and two on each of the single drawers in line with the top drawer handles. I couldn't convince my friends to have the drawer pulls in contrasting sapele (they are the customer after all). I might just make them in both woods and give them the option. I'll post more pictures when I have done them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransikaner Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 Interesting choice on the pulls, Terry. I agree with you about bringing the sapele into the main plane. Have you considered using both woods in your pull design? Possibly using the sapele for the base of the pulls and then employing the oak as the actual pull...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted July 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 I like that idea. I shall try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted July 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 Here are a couple of rough Sketchups based upon Fransikaner's great idea. All the edges will have a 1/4" radius except for the mounting faces at the rear. It's difficult to project a radius along a compound edge in the free version of Sketchup but I hope you get the idea. Now I have to go into the shop and produce a prototype. Front View Rear View I must just say my friends liked the "bulge" on the front of the pull in the original photo. I think they were seeing something that isn't there myself but I have added it anyway. Plan View with dimensions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransikaner Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 I think you got it, Terry! I almost want to bring the sapele up to the surface on each end to capture the outline of the half-round, but as I think of it, it completely changes the subtlety of how you have treated the base. Your angle for the projection seems just a bit steep, but if the lads on your side of the pond like it, I say go for it. I would think that you want your mass and lines to comfortably equate to the sapele piers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted July 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 I have just been into the shop and made the template for the drawer pulls for the chest of drawers. I used my sketchup drawing but reduced the overall size so that it was 78% the size of the original sketchup design. When I laid a 1:1 printout onto the drawer fronts they looked much too big. The overall length of the pulls is now slightly under 6".(The dimensions on my Sketchup are in metric mm) I marked out just one half of the handle and then cut this out using the bandsaw, oscillating spindle sander, files and sandpaper. Then taking the one half I used some double sided tape and stuck it to a piece of 1/4" plywood I had left over from another project. Using the bandsaw I cut as close to the line as I could leaving the other half as stock. Then using a bearing guided router bit in my router table I was able to cut exactly to the line. I peeled the half template flipped it over and stuck it symmetrically opposite. I then did the bandsaw cutting/routing method and ended up with a perfectly symmetrical drawer pull template. (I'll post a decent picture of the template later. I only had my mobile phone camera with me at the time.) Note the "lump" on the apex of the handle. Hopefully this lump is the going to end up the same as the original inspiration for these handles. I now need to cut out one from hardwood and radius the edges. http://tmcwoodworks.blogspot.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransikaner Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 I think the "bump" is going to really define the angle, Terry. Can't wait to see how it turns out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted September 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Here are the completed drawer pulls. I'm fitting them this weekend and then the entire project will be done. Hope you like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransikaner Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 EXQUISITE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 My customer who commissioned me to make the chest of drawers invited my wife and I to stay over new year. The chest was in the bedroom we stayed in and it looks fabulous. The wood hue has slightly changed (aged maybe?) under the enduro-var and the oak looks richer. I am really pleased with it and my customer is also pleased too. I've been commissioned (by my wife Elly) to make one for us too. Another project for this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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