Thanks! Yeah, I knew how to bake procedural textures onto UV mapped objects. That's how I got a barbell with procedural knurling from Blender into Poser, as witnessed by my latest few gallery submissions. ;-)

Seeing as I'm new to modern Blender, though, it was more a matter of how to put all the necessary steps together without messing  stuff up. I ended up going with this video which covers everything I needed in great detail, and it still took me half a dozen tries to get it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9TvvnxCAM

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.