Sharpening Station and Assembly Table Hardware

After looking at the pictures in the last post I realized that one can see brass drawer knobs and door hardware on the assembly table that I didnt yet blog about. In this post some more details on that. Also seen in the previous post is a sharpening station, or well, thats just a fancy description for a small table that holds my Tormek grinder.

The two drawers for the sharpening table were made to fit accessories inserts that hold jigs that are used with the Tormek. 

The table top is a small torsion box construction made from 20mm MDF and the sides are dressed with Padouk. Legs and stretchers are also made from MDF and are hollow. Note the spacers that I used during glue up seen at the top by the gripper clamps. I don't really know where the definition of the word apron starts or ends but just under the top are some 20mm MDF strips with a 4mm thick MDF overhang strip. (Still following me?)

Here the construction of the box that holds the two drawers. Glued and floating tenon joinery.

Trying to make the job as easy as possible the box is glued not where it will live in the table but on the assembly table. After the glue had set it was inserted to the table and attached with a little glue and brad nailed into the legs.

Not really finished yet but it does hold the Tormek by now. Maybe one day I'll dress the legs up with thin Padouk scraps that are laying around the shop.

See here the assembly table with the side panels finished but no hardware installed yet. The bar that holds the paper roll is a curtain thingy purchased from the hardware store that I just had to cut to size.

On one end I glued the knob on the bar and the other knob I epoxied a threaded insert and a small piece of threaded rod in the bar stock. I just unscrew it to change the paper roll.

I should have some brass drawer pulls around that I salvaged from some old cabinets that were trashed about a year ago. But even after some big time brass search and rescue throughout the house and shop without real result (I found only one of them..) Then I considered fabricating something out of wood but being for the assembly table I know that in my use it will get banged and dinged, ehm.. well, a lot!
I gave up, then googled and bought 30 used knobs from Ebay. 

Instead of measuring the 8 drawer fronts and eight doors for the hardware installment I did mock up two jigs. One for the drawers and one for the doors. Of course by the time the glue had set I could have measured the place for the knobs on 30 drawers and doors.

This one is for the doors.

And this one for the drawers.

Not the best photograph I think but it does show some hardware!