09-23-2018, 07:49 PM
Hello all. I'm an old user, who has recently resumed my woodworking activities. Some of the older users here may remember me.
I used to go to my local Ace hardware to buy drawer pulls. I have a number of shop made cabinets in my shop for which I used some brass drawer pulls. I recently finished building an accessory cabinet for my table saw, complete with 10 slim drawers for holding my table saw blades, a shelf for my dado set, and a 3.5" tall drawer for other stuff. There's also a couple of other shelves for my tenoning jig and my Rockler blade cleaning kit.
I needed new pulls for the 11 drawers, so I headed out to the Ace hardware store, only to find that they've apparently changed providers and now they don't have those same pulls any more. They now carry some other brand and they don't have the style of pull I was using. They did have some wood knobs, 2 to a package, so I picked up a dozen (6 packages).
When I got them home, I found that they're just too big. The wide part of the knobs are wider than the blade drawers are tall. The drawers about 3/4" tall, but the knobs are about an inch in diameter. These aren't going to work.
As I said, I've been out of it for a while. I checked Rockler's web site, but the prices were a bit too much for me, and I don't want anything fancy here. The brass pulls I used to use were about 3.5" wide or so, (I think they were) solid brass, and had radiused corners. If I could find some wood knobs that are about half the size of the ones I got at the hardware store, I'd be happy.
Thanks all.
I used to go to my local Ace hardware to buy drawer pulls. I have a number of shop made cabinets in my shop for which I used some brass drawer pulls. I recently finished building an accessory cabinet for my table saw, complete with 10 slim drawers for holding my table saw blades, a shelf for my dado set, and a 3.5" tall drawer for other stuff. There's also a couple of other shelves for my tenoning jig and my Rockler blade cleaning kit.
I needed new pulls for the 11 drawers, so I headed out to the Ace hardware store, only to find that they've apparently changed providers and now they don't have those same pulls any more. They now carry some other brand and they don't have the style of pull I was using. They did have some wood knobs, 2 to a package, so I picked up a dozen (6 packages).
When I got them home, I found that they're just too big. The wide part of the knobs are wider than the blade drawers are tall. The drawers about 3/4" tall, but the knobs are about an inch in diameter. These aren't going to work.
As I said, I've been out of it for a while. I checked Rockler's web site, but the prices were a bit too much for me, and I don't want anything fancy here. The brass pulls I used to use were about 3.5" wide or so, (I think they were) solid brass, and had radiused corners. If I could find some wood knobs that are about half the size of the ones I got at the hardware store, I'd be happy.
Thanks all.
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John Adair
My woodworking blog: Tony's Woodshop
John Adair
My woodworking blog: Tony's Woodshop