Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process
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Posted 11th November 2023
I'm still no closer to having the faintest idea where to start with a pattern for the carving, but I can carry on with thinking about drawer pulls.
Having made the lipped pull that might go in the front of the cabinet, I thought I'd revisit my assertion:
In theory, this would have been an option for a drawer pull, but in practice it needs to be slightly bigger diameter than the other drawer pull and that means that it would interfere with the drawer bottom.
If I reduce the wall thickness and have a very small lip, then it should be possible to still keep the 18 mm opening and the 22 mm outer diameter (of the bit that goes all the way through the drawer front).
On that basis, I turned another brass insert – visible in the middle of this picture:
Although the lip is relatively small, it still feels like it gives enough of a grip that it would give me something to pull on, so I think it could work from a functional point of view.
As the outside sizes are the same as the one with the through hole, I could fit it into the same hole as the last attempt so it was nice and quick to see what it looks like:
Compare and contrast with the through-hole version:
What the new one would look like when viewed from the inside of the drawer (in practice the drawer bottom would be very close to the lip of the brass thingy):
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