drawer pulls and heart hooks

[SJS]

Finally got around to making drawer pulls

[Donnie]

Very well done. Thank's for posting.

[Frosty]

Pretty darned nice Shane. I've found the ladies sometimes feel sharp corners on plain twists are uncomfortable. It's an easy solution though, simply break the corners a little before twisting or use a smoother twist.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

[ausfire]

Very nice. You controlled the twists well to make them all uniform.

[SJS]

Tried to add some more text to the above post, going between my phone and the desktop neither of which had great signal this morning in the rain... So I will try this;-)

We have been in the new house for two years, and my in laws found some surplus cabinets the my wife repainted and did a crackled finish on, but she hated the brushed aluminium utilitarian hardware on them. So we have been doing without for two years like I said, since the other hardware had been an odd size, and none of the big box stores carried anything with that spacing...

So I do a pumpkin festival every October just north of Zionsville, and momma wanted me to make some nice stuff for us instead of selling all the cool things;-) First thing she asked for were some stand off hooks for her antique flour sifter collection. So I had some 3/16" x 1/2" stock and cut it up into 6" piece. I put two center punch marks on them at 2" and 2 1/2". I necked the hook end from the 3" point and the slit the other end down to the 2" mark and then punched at the 2 1/2" mark. I folded the tines of the heart out into a T, and drew them to points ant broke the corners, then I shaped the hearts. The to finish I rolled a curl and back bent the hook, and then rolled the hook free hand to accept about a 1" rod. Then I bent the standoff so the belly of the hook was 2 1/2" off the wall. Tweaked everything so they looked nice, and wire brushed the snot out of them.

I wanted some more hooks, so I used a rod parter(shear) and cut some 3/8" round to 6" and did the same with it, very similar volume;-)

For the drawer pulls I wanted to use 3/8" square for the handles, but was fresh out. So I did have some 1/2" square, and took a guess of 6" to start with. In hindsight 5" would have been better, or I could have turned the mounting pads perpendicular to the twist and that would have given me my 4 1/4" spacing between holes on center. Anyway I marked the boundaries of the twist 3" in the center, then 1" on either side for the area I was going to fuller, which left 1/2" on either end for the bosses I was going to flatten. I fullered with my 4# rounding hammer over the horn and broke the corners on the fullered area. Then I just flattened the bosses making sure to round up the shape before finishing making it as flat as I wanted. Then I used a nice round straight pien hammer and my caulking vice to bend the offsets. To get the handles scrunched down enough I had to switch to a sharper straight pien to get the stems bent in quite a bit. Kept checking to see when I had the holes exactly 4 1/4" apart, the wire brush and let cool. Momma likes them and only 8 more to do... :-)

[SJS]

Tried to add some more text to the above post, going between my phone and the desktop neither of which had great signal this morning in the rain... So I will try this;-)

We have been in the new house for two years, and my in laws found some surplus cabinets the my wife repainted and did a crackled finish on, but she hated the brushed aluminium utilitarian hardware on them. So we have been doing without for two years like I said, since the other hardware had been an odd size, and none of the big box stores carried anything with that spacing...

So I do a pumpkin festival every October just north of Zionsville, and momma wanted me to make some nice stuff for us instead of selling all the cool things;-) First thing she asked for were some stand off hooks for her antique flour sifter collection. So I had some 3/16" x 1/2" stock and cut it up into 6" piece. I put two center punch marks on them at 2" and 2 1/2". I necked the hook end from the 3" point and the slit the other end down to the 2" mark and then punched at the 2 1/2" mark. I folded the tines of the heart out into a T, and drew them to points ant broke the corners, then I shaped the hearts. The to finish I rolled a curl and back bent the hook, and then rolled the hook free hand to accept about a 1" rod. Then I bent the standoff so the belly of the hook was 2 1/2" off the wall. Tweaked everything so they looked nice, and wire brushed the snot out of them.

I wanted some more hooks, so I used a rod parter(shear) and cut some 3/8" round to 6" and did the same with it, very similar volume;-)

For the drawer pulls I wanted to use 3/8" square for the handles, but was fresh out. So I did have some 1/2" square, and took a guess of 6" to start with. In hindsight 5" would have been better, or I could have turned the mounting pads perpendicular to the twist and that would have given me my 4 1/4" spacing between holes on center. Anyway I marked the boundaries of the twist 3" in the center, then 1" on either side for the area I was going to fuller, which left 1/2" on either end for the bosses I was going to flatten. I fullered with my 4# rounding hammer over the horn and broke the corners on the fullered area. Then I just flattened the bosses making sure to round up the shape before finishing making it as flat as I wanted. Then I used a nice round straight pien hammer and my caulking vice to bend the offsets. To get the handles scrunched down enough I had to switch to a sharper straight pien to get the stems bent in quite a bit. Kept checking to see when I had the holes exactly 4 1/4" apart, the wire brush and let cool. Momma likes them and only 8 more to do... :-)