Interesting cabinet pulls

[Packard]

I”m not sure that too many significant others would approve of these cabinet pulls, but perhaps an inspiration for shop cabinets:



The cabinets (not the pulls) would be an exact replica of those that my parents’ home came with. We moved in, in 1956. We went weekends to watch the house being built. Lots of hand sawing. And manual hammering. I was 5 - 6 years old at the time, but I don’t recall any machine tools.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Can't say I like the handles, but those hinges and cupboard style was pretty popular for a while in the 60's/70's here in Oz. Pretty sure I've still got some new ones packed away somewhere!

Back when we had an explosion of pine kitchen hutch cabinets which people now can't give away!

 

[Packard]

When my Mom had her kitchen redone (she could not wait to get rid of those pine cabinets), we took down the wall cabinets and they still reside in my buddy’s workshop. I’m not sure what kind of joinery they used, but pretty robust construction.

 

[smorgasbord]

I have some of my old kitchen cabinets in my shop, still.

I think knowing that the cheap Harbour Freight tools you buy could end up serving a final purpose as cabinet pulls may help justify the cost to some.

 

[peter halle]

Can't say I like the handles, but those hinges and cupboard style was pretty popular for a while in the 60's/70's here in Oz. Pretty sure I've still got some new ones packed away somewhere!

Back when we had an explosion of pine kitchen hutch cabinets which people now can't give away!

In some areas here that timeframe extended until ... When we had our first house built in 1993, the cabinet choices looked like those. My wife and I went with white cabinets will raised panels. We specified euro hinges but the cabinet shop couldn't do them.

Just before closing I was working in the house upstairs installing ventilated shelf systems in the closets while Ron, the builder was downstairs doing something. A lady in the neighborhood - Crazy Jeanie - walked in to check out the house and talk to Ron. So went on to comment on the cabinets and the silver grey carpet and loudly express her opinions on how they were going to look in a few months due to the clay dust outside. I quietly came downstairs and when Ron saw me he had a huge grin on his face. He introduced me and because I was wearing a tool belt she assumed I was a contractor. After a few more minutes of her wandering around and offering her opinions and observations in front of me, he said "I'm sorry Jean. I forgot to mention that Peter is the owner." Jean went red and went away never to return.

I'm getting ready to build new doors for those cabinets and repaint them.

Peter

 

[Packard]

I refaced my cabinets a couple of years ago. I looked at the old doors for hand print wear, and used that information to locate the new handles. Now the handles mostly get used instead of hands on the woodwork.