Anyone Wrapped a Sport Wheel?

Looks good, do they come with different spacings in between the "forkarms", or do they coincidentely match the holepattern of the covers?

 

They have single, double, 4 and 6 hole punches. I'm thinking the 6mm center to center would be appropriate.

 

I am staying tuned

 

I really like it. I can use my old sticky wheel again!

 

ooohhhhh mamamam.....

 

Glad it meets with your approval.

OK, I think I'm willing to take on a few for people if anyone is interested.

 

The next wheel to be covered is a blue sticky one with a big chunk missing at the 11 o'clock position. A ring-wearer? Repairs underway before wrapping to see how it goes. All I need to do is make the finger nub with JB Weld enough to approximate the nub. Once covered, it won't matter.

 

I've got it all built up and smoothed out. Now, I'm ready to wrap it. This will be a Belinous cover in red thread. We might try the baseball stitch. The Belinous has a closer hole spaceing. I'll do a bit and see how it looks.

 

OK, here's a baseball stitch that I think looks pretty good. The Belinous has closer spacing and they are not double at the edge, lending to a flatter, smoothing stitch.

Below that is the cross stitch on another part of the same wheel for comparison.

 

Baseball stitch looks outstanding with the red thread!

 

In this case I would opt for the Baseball stitch. What is the preference of the owner of the steeringwheel?

 

He wants the cross stitch so that's what he gets.

 

Here's the finished product. Turned out pretty good. He's coming over this weekend and we'll put it on. I think I'm going to glue the stitches around the spoke.

 

The matching non-black horn button has been disassembled and repainted silver and black. Someone had really pried on it before me, trying to get the rubber ring off and shoved the Buick center in, not mated to the notch. All corrected but it still looks a tad ragged if you look really close.

 

We put it on the car today when the hub and horn ring arrived. In hindsight, I think we should have painted the hub to match the steering column.

 

I was going back over this thread to look at pictures and notice this wheel doesn't have holes around the spokes. Obviously, a custom piece of wrap. Very cool. One day I might buy some raw leather and see what I can sew up.

 

I had a request to do a wheel without padding and it was an old Corvette wheel that was only 14" instead of our usual 15".

Wrapping an unpadded wheel takes a little more time and finesse due to the lack of padding to help with imperfections. I trimmed the rubber from around the previously wrapped spokes and worked it smooth.

Here's the style of wheel it started out as, after stripping it fully and how it turned out. The user drilled the holes in the spokes for a nostalgic feel.

 

I've got another one in the works. I was sent a brand new repro wheel, dropped shipped from Summit.

This one is black with red cross stitching. I'm about half done with it.

If anyone wants to see them in person at the GS Nats, I'll have my car there most days and you can drop off a wheel if you like to save shipping.

 

Finished that one.

Turned out pretty nice.

 

Wrapped another one.