The pull that may never be

I spent about an hour fashioning this pull from a chip of swiss pear. I'm afraid that it will not work: it is too small and hard to grasp. Before I discard the piece into my bin of forgotten parts, and I thought that I'd at least take a picture. Do you often discard neat components that you like but just won't work out well?

Building a workbench II

Let's turn the plan into something to work with (previous post).

Acquiring the lumber

Enough for both the table and the workbench

The good news with this project is that working with framing lumber is inexpensive. In fact, more than half the net cost of the project went into the pipe clamps and steel pipes. It is important to spend time at the lumber yard and turn over a LOT of pieces before settling on the right one. Large pieces tend to be the nicest, but I found enough good 2X4" so that there is no need to mill smaller stock from larger 2X8 and larger. Just budget a good hour to pick the 6-7 item carefully.