Here is a link to a nice tutorial on doing just that, making bent wood rings.

www.instructables.com/id/Bent-Wood-Rings

The instructor includes a section on epoxy inlays, too.

The comments there are also enlightening as several experienced bent wood ring makers shared some of their knowledge and expertise.

Having had several inquiries about them, I decided to blog my drawer pull process. I tried a few different prototypes trying out size, feel and aesthetics, and settled on the profile shown in the template.

During the prototyping I tried several thicknesses of stock. I would have preferred 7/8” over 3/4” but threatening weather forced me to go the easy route using the 3/4” stock I had easily accessible. What I had envisioned was 3/4” maple stock laminated between two layers of 1/16” padauk or walnut to get the 7/8”. I thought it would have looked nice. Anyway I traced the template onto my 3/4” maple stock.

Then, off to the band saw.

Keep the cut just outside the line.

And, voila’, a roughed out drawer pull, ready to be sanded.

So, it’s off to the suite of sanders, disk, belt, and spindle which will be followed by hand sanding to 220.

When the wood is hard and the band saw blade has seen better days, you get burns for free!

Cutting outside the line and sanding back to it rather nicely gets rid of the scorches.

The inside curves on the handle have burns and machining marks of their own that the spindle sander will make go away.

See.

Leaving square edges on the drawer pulls would make opening the drawer painful after it’s been loaded up, not to mention how just bumping into those square edges would hurt, so I stick a 1/8” round over bit in the router and make a zero clearance work surface, then, proceed to knock off those sharp edges.

Then, there we have it, a handy dandy custom sized maple drawer pull ready to be finished then installed.

I finished them with two coats of shellac. To get as much of the drawer pull securely connected to the drawer as I could, when I installed them I chose screws long enough to get through the drawer box, the drawer face, and nearly pierce the drawer pull itself.

I hope this answers the questions I’ve received about the drawer pulls, and thanks for reading along.

Have a great day,

Russ

I find myself in the unfortunate position of needing to sell off some wood, so I thought I’d see if any LumberJocks would be interested.

What wood does he have, you might ask? Let me list a bit of it for you.

Basswood($2.00 per board foot): Great carving stock. A couple hundred board feet in many different sized boards. 4” X 4” X 78”, 2” x 9” x 48”, 4” x 8” X 78”

Clear redwood($3.00 per board foot): 25 board feet in 7.25” wide board.

Cherry($6.00 per board foot): 3” slabs 12” x 78”(19.86 BF) and 9” x 78”(15.54 BF) and one glued up turning blank approx 7” x 7” x 17.5”(5.92 BF)

Walnut($4.00 per board foot): one block 5.25 X 5.375 X 28.25 and one glued up block that is 7.5” X 5” by 10.5”

Odds and ends of mahogany, oak and beech.

If you’re interested, call me at 517-449-6863 or message me here at LumberJocks. I’d be happy to have you stop by and pick out a few pieces or just buy me out!

Scrounging through the woodpile,

Russ

I’m a new member here and I must say I am impressed. I want to thank each and every one of you for sharing your projects, blogs and comments. I have learned a great deal and I have simply enjoyed looking at all stunning work being done by the members here. Every day I see the new projects and say, “Wow!”

I’ll share some of my own work soon, but for now I want to just want to express my appreciation for the creativity, talent, and skill shown by everyone here.

Picking through the wood pile,

Russ