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To answer the original post, there is such a thing as a Poor man’s lathe, and you can turn something like a knob.
Richard Maguire ‘ the English Woodworker’ posted about a ten minute build of a small spring pole lathe that mounts to your bench and can be used for occasional turning. Google bench top bungy lathe and you will find a whole series of builds, including his.
I built one to turn tapered tenons for chair legs.
So I had a go to see if it would do something as small as a knob and had some success at a shaker style knob.
The lathe has no chuck, so you have to cut off the last 1/4” of the knob face and knife and sand it smooth. I had no use for the knob, so now the box that holds some sharpening kit sports a cherry knob.
I only had a scrap of 3/4” cherry stock, so it’s tiny.
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