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Last summer I made some built in cherry bookshelves and cabinets for the living room and finally got started on the pulls. There isn't a lot of metalworking in this project but I thought someone might enjoy seeing them anyway. It's always better to design something yourself than settle for something boring and impersonal from Home Depot.
Our house is fairly contemporary so I thought something made of stainless and cheery would look good for pulls. After a few trial runs I settled on a 4.5" long piece of 3/8" stainless round mounted on two 1" high cherry pylons. The first step was to cut the stainless bars and face them to length. While they were chucked, I also turned a 1/16 radius on the ends.
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Next I set up in the mill and drilled and tapped two blind 8-32NF holes, each of them 1” from the end of the bars.
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The pylons were band sawed to size and squared up on the belt sander. Then using the mill I cut a 3/16” radius for the bars to sit in.
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Next came a clearance hole through for the mounting screw.
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I made a quick and dirty arbor out of a ¾” diameter piece of aluminum in the lathe and put an 8-32NF hole in the end to mount the cherry blocks for tapering. An 8-32NF flat head screw was used to mount the blocks to the arbor.
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To turn the taper, the compound was set to 5 degrees and a sharp round nose tool was set well above center to make a shearing cut on the wood.
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Then I cut a ten degree straight taper on each side using the belt sander. Belt sanding small parts like this is a great way to keep your nails short.![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Here are some of the finished parts. I only made a few to start to make sure they are acceptable to the boss.
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I little Tung oil really brings out the grain and color in the cherry.
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Here they are mounted to the cabinet doors.
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Our house is fairly contemporary so I thought something made of stainless and cheery would look good for pulls. After a few trial runs I settled on a 4.5" long piece of 3/8" stainless round mounted on two 1" high cherry pylons. The first step was to cut the stainless bars and face them to length. While they were chucked, I also turned a 1/16 radius on the ends.
![007.JPG 007.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104651-f2cbdc96a6355c3bd171b561c5b05853.jpg)
Next I set up in the mill and drilled and tapped two blind 8-32NF holes, each of them 1” from the end of the bars.
![029.JPG 029.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104654-be57e2d38dfc6fcab6b89f8e40f13761.jpg)
The pylons were band sawed to size and squared up on the belt sander. Then using the mill I cut a 3/16” radius for the bars to sit in.
![008.JPG 008.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104659-b83041f9d682d80e38c3710e43b55bbe.jpg)
Next came a clearance hole through for the mounting screw.
![009.JPG 009.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104661-02cbb06437798f4860c4269959874c63.jpg)
I made a quick and dirty arbor out of a ¾” diameter piece of aluminum in the lathe and put an 8-32NF hole in the end to mount the cherry blocks for tapering. An 8-32NF flat head screw was used to mount the blocks to the arbor.
![010.JPG 010.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104666-00e5ff0d9094cf8c5307be2312f00fce.jpg)
To turn the taper, the compound was set to 5 degrees and a sharp round nose tool was set well above center to make a shearing cut on the wood.
![011.JPG 011.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104669-cb07c14f55d8a29506e0c336dc34ebf8.jpg)
![012.JPG 012.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104672-ba12317ecaa456f47322dbf1b7e6ae74.jpg)
Then I cut a ten degree straight taper on each side using the belt sander. Belt sanding small parts like this is a great way to keep your nails short.
![013.JPG 013.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104676-45a682b618f905ce27839b5c39af11e5.jpg)
Here are some of the finished parts. I only made a few to start to make sure they are acceptable to the boss.
![014.JPG 014.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104679-696e3cd6aafd7443053b8448f36bc372.jpg)
I little Tung oil really brings out the grain and color in the cherry.
![016.JPG 016.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/104/104682-f500528a2736b8efe1871b624d558ce6.jpg)
Here they are mounted to the cabinet doors.
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