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Wooden drawer pulls8/12/2023 The blade I was using was small enough to neatly turn on a dime within the corner. But like I've said before in my other scroll saw instructables, I get my best results using a quick, confident motion - thinking is the enemy. The only tricky part about this was the tight corner - I always get nervous that I'm going to cut straight through my piece, or veer wildly off the line. I started with the upper arc and made the cut in one pass, cutting right along the line.So I went back and drew over the pencil lines in dark ink, and erased all the guide-marks from the combination square. When I was happy with the lines I took it to the scroll saw, but it was hard to see the pencil lines under the bright lights.I used two sections of my french curves to draw a clean arc across the handle's length, and make a rounded transition at the sides.I divided the handle into thirds, both along its length and width - these served as basic proportions for me to draw symmetrical curves.I only drew on one of the handles, then based all the others off the first. I used both a combination square and french curves to draw the outline for the handle shape. Next, I drew my design directly onto the blanks. Each of my blanks was ~1 inch square around, and I cut each blank to 5 inches long, to allow a little room on the sides for mounting to the drawers. I measured ~4 inches across and 5/8 inches deep. I started with the size of my hand - I tried gripping a ruler, to see how much room my hand needed to grip the handles. Instead of using a printed pattern, I decided to try and free-hand these handles.
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