I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but since the steering wheel in question has wood segments, I won't have to cover the whole thing, just three relatively small areas at 9:00, 3:00 and 6:00 o'clock, extending in to the area around the air bag.
Again, I plan on using a seam ripper to carefully deconstruct the existing leather so I have a pattern for each piece. Hopefully, that will make the replacement pieces easier to lay out and install. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Feb 26, 2015, at 6:49 PM, G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Glad to help. With a bit of care and effort you can produce a perfect wheel > cover that will be a good as the $300+ job. > > I forgot to mention.. on the hem seam.. use a straight edge [I used a metal > yard stick ] and mark the "fold to" line on the inside surface of the strip. > It will help give you a sharp uniform finish on the final product. Lead > pencil line worked for me. > > From my experience, most Tandy stores are Owner Operated under the franchise > name, so some will have smaller pieces , so do not.. Also.. it will depend on > your choice of leathers.. If you are doing the wheel in "baby seal" or > "extinct condor " chances are you will have to buy the whole hide.. ;)) > > The "strip to make the hoop" will be about 6" X 50" [adjusted to your > particular wheel] > > If you wish, you can add things like increased hand grip areas by laying in > additional layers of leather or closed cell foam. Again, simple white glue > will suffice to hold those in place until install.. Don't use much.. just a > dab spread thinly will do the job. When you dampen the leather on install, > the glue will soften and allow a bit of slip to stretch the single layer > leather which will "define" the increased width areas .. Again.. take you > time. > > And.. don't forget .. pictures to show off your progress and finished > product... > > Can't do an "Attaboy" without pictures.. ;)) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
