Got another handy hint published in the current Wood Magazine issue  But drat, missed out on hint of the issue, $630 track saw.

Congrats Keith!  What is the hint?

Congrats, Keith!!

 

It is a simple way to make a jig to cut a hand hold in a box, drawer, etc.    I never liked drilling two holes, running a jig saw beteen them and then rasping, filing,and sanding out the middle to make it straight

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there's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza.....

Cool! but it looks like the artist drew a dovetail bit in the router!

3 hours ago, DAB said:

there's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza.....

Yeah, I had to do about 46 hand holes and running them with a jig saw was just not that appealing.  Some of them here

 

 

Congratulations!

Danl

Cool tip.  My Uncle had these on his cabinets for radio controlled airplane parts.  Worked well for that.  So I tried them in my shop.  Couple things I found as I went along.

 

They seemed to be a vacuum for all sawdust / debris.

My children thought of them as small trash cans to stuff candy wrappers and such in.

Somehow while I was gone to Iraq for 3 years a wasp nest decided to inhabit that drawer.  Was big surprise when I opened it up and hacked them off big time.

 

Using a dovetail bit, and setting the depth to not cut through the drawer front, gives you an undercut lip you can use to pull the drawer out with.  Just sand off the sharp edge before finish and use. No hole to push candy wrappers through. 

 

4D

6 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

Using a dovetail bit, and setting the depth to not cut through the drawer front, gives you an undercut lip you can use to pull the drawer out with.  Just sand off the sharp edge before finish and use. No hole to push candy wrappers through. 

 

4D

Great tip.Thanks.