Once the weather warmed up I was able to go outside to spray the drawer fronts.
This is the back that will be screwed up to the drawer and so it will never be seen again. So here is your last chance. It’s quilted maple veneer.

I used it because it was big and i had a lot of it and I wasn’t sure that I’d ever use it so now some is gone.
I can’t believe that I never took a picture of the drawers being sprayed. But, here they are installed. on the drawers.
The 5 drawer cabinet in the back of the island.

The 3 drawer cabinet in the island. These drawers required book matching veneer on each of the drawers.

The 4 drawer to the right of the island and left of the range.

The 4 drawer cabinet to the right of the range.

The cabinet to the right still doesn’t have drawers made.
The 3 drawer cabinet beside the refrigerator.

19 drawer fronts all installed. The top drawer is the same size on all cabinets with the exception of the 5 drawer cabinet. The 4 drawer cabinet have all drawers the same size. The 3 drawer cabinets have drawers of approx 7”, 10” and 12”.
So now I made a jig to drill the holes for the drawer pulls.

The jig is mounted on top of the drawer front and centered on the drawer.

All drilling is from the front.
The drawer handles are made to match the cabinet and drawer fronts. They are Yellow Birch heart wood for the mount and sapwood for the handle.

These drawer pulls are like the pulls that Darrell Peart is using on his cabinets that he posted here on LumberJocks.
I asked Darrell about the pulls and he referred me to James Krenov
The pulls are shown on one of his cabinets in this video.
Smitty also posted this on LumberJocks and he had the pulls that I liked.
Here is a piece made by Bibb
So I made the pulls. They are 1 1/8” high 1 1/4” wide and 13/16” thick. The rod between them is 7/16” and was cut with a doweling jig. I thought I’d posted it before but couldn’t find it so I guess I’ll have to make a new post or review.
The pulls had a pilot holes drilled in the back with the same hole spacing as the drawer front spacing. The jig that I used to drill the holes also Set the spacing for the mount blocks.
The first one mounted.

I ratchet drill to put in the hex head screws.

Drilling the holes in the drawer fronts.

The 5 drawer cabinet in the back of the island.

The 3 drawer cabinet.

And the 4 drawer cabinet.

The 4 drawer cabinet to the right of the range.

The drawer pull up close.

19 drawer pulls installed.
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35 comments so far
PurpLev
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#1 posted 1418 days ago
This is sacrilege, quilted maple gone missing… lol. luckily the fronts make up for it :) looks great! love the wooden hardware.
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#2 posted 1418 days ago
The cabinets came out beautifully, Karson!!
Bet the Mrs. is happy to be using her new kitchen.
Lew
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Workbench_Warrior
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#3 posted 1418 days ago
Quilted maple veneer covered up say it ain’t so Karson! As I said before great work and unique as well, you sure can’t buy drawers with unseen quilted maple veneer lol.
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#4 posted 1418 days ago
She is definitelly happy to be able to open the drawers. She usually just left them open and walked around them. She said that a couple of times she grabbed the sides of the drawer to pull them open and then remembered that she now had a drawer pull.
Pavlov was right again.
For those of you who have never heard of Pavlov do a search for Pavlov’s dog.
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#5 posted 1418 days ago
Beautiful drawers. And, I’ll add my dismay to the quilted maple on the backs. I’m guessing the Mrs. is rather pleased.
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spanky46
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#6 posted 1418 days ago
Very very nice Karson! Your skill shows!
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Karson
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#7 posted 1418 days ago
Thanks guys. I appreciate it.
There were 32 sheets of that veneer in the flitch. I used maybe 8 – 10 and they had some cracks that would have been hard to join or patch. Don’t worry about the missing veneer, I’ve got lots more of that stuff.
This came in a package that had around 700 sq ft of maple veneer. I used around 30 Sq Ft.
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#8 posted 1418 days ago
those are really nice karson…someday maybe my wife will let me build her stuff.
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#9 posted 1418 days ago
I like your cabinetry also found the JK video very moving especially when he talked of his wife he reminded me of my father in law.A truly wonderful simplistic ideology I love that.Thanks for posting .Alistair
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dustyal
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#10 posted 1418 days ago
... okay… very nicely done… but how can you find anything in those 19 drawers? I have a little wet bar with 5 drawers and 3 doors… can’t find a thing on first try. lol Thanks for bringing the fronts and the jigs to our meeting show and tell… they really look good finished with the drawer pulls in place.
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#11 posted 1418 days ago
Beautiful!
But your going to end up with a stiff neck looking at the quilted maple.<(:O}#
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Karson
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#12 posted 1418 days ago
Al I use “1” silverware. Top drawer, I let her worry about the others.
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#13 posted 1418 days ago
exelent work ,karson .
i can’t believe how much work you did,
while i took a nap !
thats why you are the master .
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#14 posted 1418 days ago
Great looking cabinets Karson, Very good build.
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#15 posted 1418 days ago
very nice….
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