Cool JEMI...

Was that "grain"

planned to resemble the door knob? 

 Here’s some rough plans I drew. If your interested in building one and can’t read them I can help you with that.  

Missing from the plans, however, I can't read imperial...  you gotta get into SketchUp (or one of the other drawing packages)... they have a built in imperial/metric translator

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD