Steering Wheel

[Jgrden]

Direct me to information on how to make a wooden steering wheel. I am in the process of obtaining a wheel for my SSR and want to remove the leather covering and replace it with wood. What is your recommendation (besides not doing it at all).?

John in Conroe.

 

[DozerMite]

A router with a circle jig should get you most of the way there. It will have to be in two halves and a dado for the steel ring on the wheel.

 

[eck]

Have you thought of changing out the gear knobs and make them out of Acrylic?


http://www.eckmanwoods.com/Stoppers.htm

 

[titan2]

Have you thought of changing out the gear knobs and make them out of Acrylic?
www.eckmanwoods.com

Acrylic??? Try granite!!!

http://www.rocknob.com/homepg.html

I have one on my Jeep.....works great!!!


Barney

 

[keandkafu]

What ever you do, make sure you have a steel base like the middle of a sandwich for the wheel. Mainly for safety reasons, if you're in an accident, you don't want the wheel to become many sharp pieces of shrapnel stabbing you! The steel will hold it together so you may only have a chip or two fly around.

Kevin

 

[DozerMite]

Have you thought of changing out the gear knobs and make them out of Acrylic?


http://www.eckmanwoods.com/Stoppers.htm

Takes to long to load.

 

[Jgrden]

A router with a circle jig should get you most of the way there. It will have to be in two halves and a dado for the steel ring on the wheel.

Gotcha. I am sure it will need to be in halves and surround a metal stem or wheel of some sort. I am going to use the idea regarding the router to make the round wood part.

What kind of wood will hold a stain, not crack and accept shellac or a better coat?

 

[fiferb]

A quick google search for wooden steering wheels brought this link:

http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/93.cfm

Or you could buy one already commercially available.

 

[jttheclockman]

Just my opinion for what it worth and that ain't much. Unless this is an antique car or some sort of restoration I would not do it. Those wheels are made to high standards that go through a series of inspections for crash rated inpacts. They have steel rims inserted in them for reinforcement. Plus if you have an airbag to deal with. You don't want that piece of wood snapping and leaving sharp spikes pointing at you in a crash. Spin some turn directional handles or gear shift knob or radio knobs and leave the steering wheels to the pros. Turn a ships wheel and make a clock out of it.

 

[mywoodshopca]

Takes to long to load.

Bigtime.. some of the pictures are about 12MB in size!! Seems they used a program just to drag and resize the origional pictures dimensions but not their overall size..

 

[Jgrden]

Just my opinion for what it worth and that ain't much. Unless this is an antique car or some sort of restoration I would not do it. Those wheels are made to high standards that go through a series of inspections for crash rated inpacts. They have steel rims inserted in them for reinforcement. Plus if you have an airbag to deal with. You don't want that piece of wood snapping and leaving sharp spikes pointing at you in a crash. Spin some turn directional handles or gear shift knob or radio knobs and leave the steering wheels to the pros. Turn a ships wheel and make a clock out of it.

Well taken.

Thank you.