Thread: Help needed

Champagne corks?

Al

Tas Oak mushroom shaped knobs would suit it

Try this website
http://www.lincolnsentry.com.au/Home.aspx
they may be able to help.

G'Day Garell

If you wanted to go metal knobs or handles I'd suggest a plain curved brass handle. You've already got some brass in the hinges and the curves would set off the design in the doors. If you were going to go for timber I'd go with something that matches the timber used for the curved design in the doors. Once again I'd be inclined to go with a plain large diameter curved handle rather than a knob. The cabinet has some beautiful lines, I think a plain old knob would spoil them.

Hope that helps!

By the way, NICE cabinet!

regards

Manix

First, that is a beautiful cabinet. Well done! I particularly like the straight grain matching across the drawer fronts, and of course, the curved detail on the doors.

From the picture it looks like the material you used for the curved detail on the doors is different (darker) than the primary timber for the rest of the cabinet. If so, you should make your drawer handles out of this timber.

I concur with some of the other posts, that you should make your own handles, large size, and curved.

I think you should make a large radius, concave down (unhappy smile), handle which would tie in with the doors, both in terms of timber colour, and in terms of pleasing curves. You could cut out such a handle on the bandsaw, using a masonite template, and then flush rout to make it smooth. I would also advise some hand shaping to give it that organic, pleasing feel.

From the look of the cabinet, this is certainly not beyond you!

Alternatively, I think straight (horizontal) "bars" of timber would also look good.

Hope this helps. Merry Christmas to your folks! (Lucky buggers...)

Yeh, that's a nice job you've done there. I can't quite work it out. What are those pieces in the doors, are they just little sticks? It looks like you're going to glaze the doors, and I think I can see through the doors to the floor behind. Is there a base to go in?

In regards to the handles, I'd go for something simple and art deco with a curve to match the doors, like these from the website that Just George posted. As Manix77 says, if the hinges are brass then I'd go with the 'Bow Brass" handles third from the top of that page, but it's all a matter of taste I suppose.

Nice looking cabinet. Your parents should be stoked with it.

Thank you for all your idear's

I tried a few different types of handels tonight. I made a wooden version based on the link that Pawnhead supplied. Still not sure as yet. I might go with it.

As for the cabinet, it now has the top finished and there is 100 x 100 square fencing type material inside to hold the bottle's. It has no bottom because the door's where origionaly going to be glass but that was way to expencive so I went with thick fly wire. Not as dark as I had hoped. The inserts on the doors are Jarra, I cut strips leaving them attached at the bottom and are slotted into the door's. I shal post a pic of the final piece when its got handels and been oiled, and provide a better desctiption

Thanks again

Jamie

Garell, I agree with Lucky Duck on the handles. Jarrah, large radius, concave down. I would start the radius at the centre of the bottom of insert (where the detail starts together) and draw your arc on the drawers from that point. That's the radius that your Jarrah detail takes my eye to, and it would look very continuous.

Hi there rookie

Please feel free to copy the picutre and draw on it so I can get a better picture of what you are intending. It sounds good but not to sure what you quite mean.

Hi Garell

I've tried to show what I mean on the attached.

The radii are the white lines with the relevant piece of a circles circumference also in white across the top. What I mean is maybe choose a segment of the circumference (drawn in black) for the shape of the handle. While it is not symmetrical to the drawers because they are offset, it is an extension of the arc that the jarrah features seem to point to.

Cheers

Rookie's suggestion is excellent, and along the lines I was thinking, although the "off centre" handle location might be a little too "modern" for some (personally, I think it looks great, as drawn).

To make it look slightly more traditional, take the same curve and centre it on each drawer. But would this make the centre drawer look a bit funny since the handle would be basically a straight piece (because it is so short)? Dunno...

Is that a centre drawer?? Sorry, thought it was just a filler between two drawers. He should put some knobs on it so we can tell huh


If so you could extend the handles to follow arcs from both doors with the handle for the centre drawer being the shallow "V" shape that is formed when the arcs touch. And extend the other side to the bottom of the drawer. I.e. Wherever the arcs go over the drawers, make it all handle. Just one continuous line of two arc.

Love setting up a woodworking challenge

Thank you gentlemen for replying

I have finished the project. However the arks are a little more pronounced than what you suggest. I shall post a picture later tonight or tommorrow when I have oiled the piece.

Regards Jamie

How could you have finished the job :confused: :confused:

I was at work today. Wasn't everyone at work today????? Bugger!!

No fair, woodworking while I'm working