I am in the process of making some bedroom furniture, including a chest of drawers and two bedside cabinets, all in oak. The bedside cabinets will have three drawers each and the chest four. This means that I need to make about 14 knobs.
Now I have turned one or two knobs before and they have not been too bad, but I have never done this amount. I have to say that the prospect of getting all of them right and matching, I find daunting. What I don't want to do is ruin the pieces with knobs that look poor. I am nervous enough about this to consider buying them!
How do I get all of the knobs the same? I don't particularly like screws through the drawer front so I had thought of cutting a tenon and putting that into a chuck to turn the rest of the knob. Do all 14 one at a time. Or is it easier to do a spindle of 4 or 5 in one go?
Any help would be appreciated.
Bob
Now I have turned one or two knobs before and they have not been too bad, but I have never done this amount. I have to say that the prospect of getting all of them right and matching, I find daunting. What I don't want to do is ruin the pieces with knobs that look poor. I am nervous enough about this to consider buying them!
How do I get all of the knobs the same? I don't particularly like screws through the drawer front so I had thought of cutting a tenon and putting that into a chuck to turn the rest of the knob. Do all 14 one at a time. Or is it easier to do a spindle of 4 or 5 in one go?
Any help would be appreciated.
Bob