Howdy All, After some touring in Rome, Italy & a visit to the Vatican I was sure to come home with a St. Christopher medallion with the intention of setting it into a bakelite shift knob. I was thinking of a shallow counterbore for it to fit flush & epoxy, but I wanted to hear other ideas/methods before I go about it.
I did your idea in my '32 Ford with a comemorative, 75th anniversary medal for the 1932 Ford. I chucked up my horn ****on in a lathe and counter bored a recess for the medal and used a drop of silicone adhesive.
I added one and it was all hand cutting, filing and fitting. started with flattening the radius of the knob to a size where I could outline the shape of the medallion.....just do what makes sense as you go about it
I've done a couple of shift knobs this way. Threaded a stud into the hole, chucked that into my lathe, then flattened the top of the knob a bit. Figured the dia. of the counter bore required, turned that out, glued the medallion in with some epoxy. Finally shot a couple coats of clear over the whole thing, worked well!
51 mercules, I love that Merrills Marauders medal. Those guy's drove the Japanese crazy in the Burma-India- China theater of war. They were spe******ts in Jungle/Guerrilla warfare, they hit the Jap's hard and disappeared into the jungle. Nice piece!
Thanks my dad was in Merrill's Marauders. Used to go to Merrill's Marauders reunions with my dad when I was a kid. My older brother gave me the medallion. I thought it would look cool on my shift knob for my Model A Roadster.
Didn’t overthunk it! Quick n dirty way to make concentric with threads. Dust off to minimize axial runout with arbor. Made up a turning arbor for the collet chuck. Ta-da. I used an old MARTA token for practice. Atlanta’s public transport authority.
Would you guys quit showing off your knobs ya gotta know some poor ****** on here is gonna say hey hunny come have a look at this guys knob without thinking that through and she’s gonna say “ what the hell are you doing lookin at guys knobs for,”then we’re all gonna be in trouble
Ta-da. I used an old MARTA token for practice. Atlanta’s public transport authority. View attachment 6810426 [/QUOTE] New Hampshire used to use tokens at the toll plazas; I would buy a roll every week when I was commuting through there. One day I was short on tokens, but my son had left some Chuck E. Cheese tokens in the car, so I tossed four of them into the basket - and they worked! They were also cheaper, so I started buying those instead.
I epoxied a steel penny in the bottom of an axe handle. Drilled it, super glued it, clear epoxy over top. It’s cut a lot of wood and is still intact. YRMV
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