Turning drawer pulls using a drill press

[Graham Orm]

Nifty trick if you've got the deep plug cutter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-FxIRSRuE

 

[RobinBHM]

I thoroughly enjoyed watching that, quite impressive how quickly the rasps formed the shape. Might cause purist turners to wince a bit!

 

[JJ1]

Excellent and very useful indeed. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[custard]

Cough, cough! That looks a bit dusty!

Although I use a lathe to make drawer pulls I also use a plug cutter and a matched drill to get a perfect fit with minimum fuss. Unfortunately really good matched plug cutters aren't cheap,

http://www.workshopheaven.com/tools/FAMAG_1616.html

 

[Graham Orm]

You could always drill a hole and glue in a short dowel

 

[blackrodd]

That rasp certainly cuts through the fibres, would be easy to mess up a couple at first I reckon.
As Custard said, rather a dusty job
Awkward to devise an extractor for that jobby.
Regards Rodders

 

[Eric The Viking]

How did you know I have a batch of drawer pulls to make soon, and I don't have a lathe.

Thanks for posting that. I now have to work out how to get them well matching!

E.

 

[Graham Orm]

Do it as you would on a lathe when batch making Eric, make a template of the profile and keep trying it.

 

[Graham Orm]

Here's another option for some nice drawer pulls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wk_yaUP2M

 

[AndyT]

Useful!

And fwiw the standard approach to making a matched set is to make more than you need and pick out the best ones.

 

[woodaxed]

Here's another option for some nice drawer pulls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wk_yaUP2M

that guy is dangerous he cuts the outside of the template first on the bandsaw meaning his fingers are then closer to the blade to cut the inside curve out and hes to lazy to change the blade which means it harder to cut the inside curve of the template and tbh for 2 drawer pulls i would have cut the rosewood wider and cut it as one pull then sanded and split after you then have the identical shape