Light Heavy-Duty Handle

The original wooden handle of this cabinet door snapped off regularly as it has been placed in a gangway to knee-height. The first approaches for repair consolidated the original design, by applying wood glue and ever heavier handles.

When the handle was destroyed for the umpteenth time I realized that it'll always be either bend or break. That was when I fixed the rope, shaped like a handle and using the original screw-openings.

The result is a handle that is indestructible. And they lived happily ever after.

If you like this fix you might also enjoy other openproducts, for example the instructables 'Cope with Big Soap', the 'One-Armed Bandit - Mixer Tap Redesign' or the 'Cable clip from tubing'.

The solution to a repetitive repair has been to radically redesign the handle of a cabinet door. The guiding principle in this case has been: bending versus breaking. The first option (bending) is then to be preferred, at least from a maintenance perspective. But also in view of protecting one's knees. Perhaps not from the perspective of aesthetics. Let's call it functional design.

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