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Our new kitchen cabinets look great, but
the drawer fronts don’t have any holes
for the pulls. How do I go about drilling
them myself? —KEITH EMRICH, EVANSVILLE, IN
A
Sounds like you could use a jig to help you drill all those
holes quickly and precisely. To make this one, I simply
screwed a piece of
1⁄ 4 -inch scrap plywood to a cleat cut from
1× stock. Then I drilled two
3⁄ 16 -inch holes—the size of most
hardware screws—into the plywood exactly where I want
the pulls to be located. To use this jig, made for drawers
with two pulls, I hook it onto the top edge of the drawer
front, align it flush with the front’s sides, and drill through
the jig’s holes. If I were installing a single pull or knob, I’d
make the jig wider so it would sit at the center on the drawer
when lined up with one of the front’s side edges.
Norm’s
tricks of the trade
1× cleat
¼-inch
plywood
3⁄ 16 -inch hole
drawer front
Build Your Own
Vintage-Style
Record Player
Stand
We polled TOH Facebook fans
to choose a project for Tommy
and Kevin to build this season,
and this classic record player
stand was a definite hit.
Tune in to Ask This Old House this
November and Tommy will show
you how it’s done. Or take a spin
at building it yourself with our
step-by-step instructions, coming
soon in the November/December
issue of This Old House magazine.
PHOTOS:ANTHONYTIEULI