Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:39:20 -0800
Reply-To: Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Calling all wood carvers/craftspeople (Vanagon content)
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Turning manual shift knobs ain't rocket science. Anyone with a small lathe
can do that. Automatics are usually a bit trickier.
tim in san jose
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I've a cracker-jack wood turner friend here in Birmingham that can turn
> just about any combination of woods you want. His bigger stuff sells in
> the $2-3-4K range. He makes beautiful small things from multiple woods
> fitted so tightly you can't see the glue lines. If interested - let me
> know. I'll be over at his place later this evening and again on Friday.
> I have a mold project going and he does some pattern work for me.
>
> John
>
>
> On 2/13/2014 12:12 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>
>> What I had in mind:
>>
>> <http://www.knology.net/~felder/Vanagons/knob.html>
>>
>> Two layers of cherry with about 1/8 inch of ash in between, turned to the
>> angle of a vanagon windshield to the front end. Question is how to adorn
>> the top? See drawing.
>>
>> Epoxy a knurled, tapped rod in the bottom and supply with a jam nut for
>> correct orientation if the final design makes that neccessary.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Larry Steffen <larry@stratofex.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,just check out IKEA and import stores for cool aluminum hand sized
>>> objects and drill right size hole in the base! Hardwood objects are neat
>>> too!
>>> Larry/monterey bayCal
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2014 9:41 AM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The reference was a metaphor, as in "the carbon fiber look of today is a
>>>> statement of modernity like the pink and grey paint job or your pink and
>>>> grey bathroom tiles were back in that day."
>>>>
>>>> It's an icon of the time, with the idea that whatever is up-to-day
>>>> stylewise will one day look quaint and old-fashioned, even carbon fiber.
>>>> Kinda like stainless appliances.
>>>>
>>>> Or brown interiors, though they are coming back I hear : )
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Ben <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My eyes aren't great anymore but I don't see any reference to carbon
>>>>> fiber.=)
>>>>>
>>>>> BenT
>>>>> sent from my electronic leash
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:58 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
>>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> There isn't any "Pink" in CarbonFiber ~ It is Black on Black
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12 Feb , 2014, at 7:08 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I liked the Eight Ball shift knobs you saw on Chebbies in olden
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> days.
>>>
>>>> Carbon fiber? That seems to be the "Pink and Charcoal" of our current
>>>>>
>>>> era.
>>>
>>>> Many must think carbon fiber is cool-looking now, I think it's....
>>>>>
>>>> rather
>>>
>>>> ugly. People cover up everything with "carbon fiber" stickum...20yrs
>>>>>
>>>> from
>>>
>>>> now I bet it will look like pink and charcoal Formica .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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