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Rout the finger-pull grooves using a series of increasingly deeper cuts until you reach the finished depth of 5/16". Use a pair of featherboards to help control the workpiece, and feed the stock slowly.

Shape the curved outside profiles along both edges of the stock using a 3/4"-radius roundover bit. Again, nibble away this waste in a series of cuts, raising the bit each time until you achieve the full roundover.

sand the profiles. The wide stock also allows for making pulls on both edges, which speeds up the workflow.

Set up your router lable wilh the core box bit, and roul finger-pull grooves along both edges of the stock (lop left photo). Switch to the roundover bit. and rout the outside profile of the pull (top right photo). Sand the linger grooves and the outside roundover edges. Ease the sharp edges. It's easier to do this sanding now when the stock is long.

Once the sanding is wrapped up, rip the pulls to width on a lable saw (bottom photo). Using a sharp, quality saw blade makes a big difference. I used my new Infinity brand Super General blade, and il did the trick nicely. I set up the cut so the pull stock falls to the outside of the

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saw blade. It's not as fast a setup as making the cut between the blade and fence, but due to the shape of this pull, it's a safer approach.

I used a miter saw to cut the pulls to their 4" length. This is way too short to hold the stock by hand and safely make the cuts. So, to secure the pull stock while cutting, I used a "spring-loaded" hold-down made from a 1/4" x 3/4" piece of maple which I clamped on top of blocks in front of my saw (see bottom right photo, page 33).

Your next task is to sand and shape the pull ends. Notice in the Top and Front View Drawings that the end

shape of this pull is a complex curve. Draw guide marks on the ends of the pulls to indicate the peak and

The author used a large-diameter rubber convex sanding grip to sand the routed finger grooves. You could use a matching dowel as a sanding tool instead.

Rip strips of pull stock off the larger blank. Use your saw's splitter/guard and a push stick for safety. Set the saw's fence so the cutoff piece is 1" wide.

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