OT: Woodworking in my shop with a bonus

My son and his fiance built a cradle for her brother and his wife. The wood is poplar wall boards that came out of her great grandfathers house in NC. They grabbed the only door knob left in the house and decided to put it on the cradle for a handle to rock it with. My son asked me did I have a carriage head bolt that would fit the knob.
I could not believe my eyes when I looked at the door knob.
See if you recognize what it is..
Also, they need to ship the cradle to Montana from SC. Any suggestions?
Richard in NW SC

That's really neat, Richard. How wide are the boards used? Do they have any idea how old it is?

The house was old when her great grandfather moved there about 1900. The boards are about 7 inches wide.
Richard

Definitely a V8 emblem off an old automobile, I've seen it before, looks familiar, but I can't place it, well is it Ford ? They had an early V8.

(quoted from post at 06:35:18 01/14/14) Definitely a V8 emblem off an old automobile, I've seen it before, looks familiar, but I can't place it, well is it Ford ? They had an early V8.

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Yep, definitely Ford in my opinion. Know what the part is?
Richard

That is My kind of stuff. All my wood working projects are done with old lumber like that. The guys up there that we talked about from Walhalla the McCall brothers one is named Wayne and they have a machine shop and a diving business.
Ron

They'll love it.

Nice that they built it together.

Is that Wayne McCall the county council man? I really like him on the council. Good common sense man.
Richard

Gas cap?

Not a gas cap. Good guess.
Richard

Small enough, radiator cap or wheel center/bearing cap ? Has to be somewhere prominent enough on the car, given the logo on it, too small for a hub cab, or so it seems.

Gear shift knob?

It is very prominent on the car.
Richard

Bingo, You got it.
Richard

Thats cool ! LOL ! I'd never have suspected a gear shift knob, it looks like a cap of some sort, that logo certainly is familiar though. I too like reclaimed lumber, I have a collection of it in my basement from over the years, barn timbers, pine boards lots of smaller miscellaneous pieces too. I found some nice fir 2x4's while doing a job last year, during the demolition part of it, asked permission to take those, de-nailed them for future reference, job was for a neighbor, I brought those home, but there were a lot more. Neighbor lady had someone else come in for free, married man, from out of state, whom stayed there while he worked... ok, I get the picture LOL !!! I guess my extremely low/friendly neighborly price was still to high, LOL ! So she literally cancelled my paying job, this person informed her about the "golden" fir 2x4's, which then disappeared. I just had to laugh, all the work and favors I did over the years without charge, would have liked the rest of those having an eye for nice lumber. People LOL.... Last year was not a great year, did a bunch of work for another customer, never got paid, cripes I can find work to stay busy, just that getting paid thing LOL!

I remember picking clear 2x12's out of the stack at the lumber yard for wood working projects, some of it was better than the D4S pine we sold, cheap too !

Nice cradle, lots of character !!! Hopefully it gets passed down many generations!

Don't know, met them once when I sold them some
cylinders. Many common acquaintances they grew up
down here. Good guys.
Ron

1938 Ford. not sure where emblem was used on vehicle due to its size.

since reading all of the posts I googled 38 Ford gear shift knobs and discovered reproductions are available from several sites.

(quoted from post at 08:58:37 01/14/14) since reading all of the posts I googled 38 Ford gear shift knobs and discovered reproductions are available from several sites.

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Know this is not a reproduction as this house has been empty a longtime. All the real glass door knobs had been stolen. My son's fiance said her grandfather, the second generation in the family to live there, was a farmer and a mechanic.
Richard

I'm sorry, did not mean to imply yours was a repro,
quite oblivious it is not. nice work and nice
touch.

Nice work.
As far as shipping...
Build a crate for it, and put enough packing material so the cradle can't move around inside the crate.
It won't be cheap to ship. I would NOT use UPS. They could break an anvil and they are very bad about paying for items they damage.
I know people that ship large items by Greyhound bus. I've also heard of people shipping large car parts like engine blocks through their Fastenal store.

Shipping it could be expensive, and it could get top loaded and wrecked. I would build a crate out of plywood and pad a little around it.

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