Knobs - easy, fast and cheap

[niki]

Good day

As you noticed, I'm using many knobs for my jigs and I made them in many methods until one morning, after the 3rd coffee kicked in, I realized that I'm "wasting time and money" for something so simple...that I'm not going to put in the living room...

So I made them simple but, during the process, I thought, "How said that a knob must be round...actually, it's just a lever to turn and tight a nut or bolt"...so I made it even simpler.

I stopped using bolts because it's much cheaper to buy Threaded Rod and cut it to the required dimension and from one, I can make many "bolts" and don't have to run to the shop for every bolt length.

So, here are my latest knobs (not exactly)...

Best Regards
niki

[Tamarack]

Thanks for a great article-very clear and excellent for we "frugal" members!!
Paul

[LCHIEN]

You can countersink the spot for the T-nut to recess it a bit and make the appearance a little better.

[niki]

Thank you so much

Loring
I believe that you mean something like in the pics below...yes, it looks better even with the bolt and nut...

I've shown the easiest and fastest way, the rest, I leave to the imagination...

Regards
niki

[Anna]

Niki, thanks for that great tutorial, as always. I've been saving your tutorials into PDF files for my archives and for future reference. Hope you don't mind.

Anna

[niki]

Thank you Anna

Very good idea to save them as PDF. First, you don't have to "search" for them and second, if my Photobucket album disappears...like it happened some one month ago...you have the pics...

Regards
niki

[cabinetman]

Niki

Great idea and simple to do. Just a note about "countersinking" the "T" nut or nut, is to use a forstner bit the size needed and drill just deep enough to seat the nut. Then, the forstner will leave a point in the middle that can be used to center drill for the bolt.

But, knowing your expertise, that's the way you did them anyway.

[niki]

Thank you Cabinetman

As you can see, this knob has rounded edges and that means that I cut it with the "Hole Saw" and I already had the 1/4" hole at the center...so, there was no choice but to make the bigger hole with the method of "Drilling large hole over small hole" (I posted it somewhere).

Your idea is very good when you start from scratch with the rectangular knob

Best Regards
niki