The Making of a Wood Steering Wheel

[Daddyfink]

Very cool! I wonder if I could use my drill press as a vertical lathe?

[crazyjim]

Pretty cool.

[Ira]

Beautiful Wheel!

[BubbaJoe]

i am just so blown away by this...truly amazing work

[Davewilly]

Very cool Anne I knew there was a reason i saved all those plugs every time I used my hole saw! Very killer idea to make wood steering wheel!

[pandamonium2112]

Nice work Anne. That wheel turned out amazing. Can't you just use a small round file to put the finger grips in the old one then re-varnish?

Anyway keep up the good work.

[HondaSan72]

Awesome work!!

[Tony T]

Very nice!

[my80malibu]

looks good Anne maybe next time you could turn it down by half make an opposing side then sandwich the spokes in between

[The Modeling Hermit]

That looks sooooo much easier than the way that I've been doing it. I did mine on the lathe using loose ring tools, which resulted in more frustration than steering wheels. I'll use your meathod from now on. Thanks for sharing.

[CrazyGirl]

^{thanks guys ,,,,,,,, it takes about 15 minutes to make the wheel this way , now that I know what to do it may take around 8 minutes to make}

[Foxer]

You keep making me feel better and better about my modeling, Anne. I never finish anything because I keep coming up with another detail I should do ... now I see I'm nowhere NEAR your detail fanaticism and will never worry about it again!

It's good to see you jumping in feet first and doing is so well!

[Guest G Holding]

Agree with the rest, Now you need a PE center for it...PE polished with rivets!

(harry's beef with the grips took you 15 minutes...I figure 5 more for the rivets!)

[Scalper]

You Should start making them to sell. Very nice.

[CrazyGirl]

Thanks for the nice words ,,,,,,, Greg , it does have the photo etch center , I have thought of rivets but the vette wheel does not have them , but it would be cool to add , I am trying to find some teak to make the next wheel , and Ron Hamilton pointed out a few things that I need to fix on the interior , attack that tomorrow , I should have the car done in about 2 years at this rate !

[Guest G Holding]

The real fun IS the drive!

[Danno]

You didn't show us how the spokes attach to the rim. That's usually fiddly. How did you accomplish it?