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Title: Wooden grips ?
Post by: PSweeney on February 20, 2014, 02:53:40 AM

anybody make their own wooden grips for brake hangle and butterfly wheels ?  I plan on using a high quality birch plywood but I 'm questining how to attach them ?.   I know items like wooden steering wheels are riveted with brass rivets but I'm unfamiliar with the process or where to source them ?.  I'm thinking a coutnersunk brass slotted machine screw might work ?

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: ricci32 on February 20, 2014, 03:06:18 AM

true value hard ware makes a aluminium screw together fitting that looks like a rivet with a male and female end ,I have used them on several wheels. I don't recall the name one side has a blank head like a rivet the other has a screw slut they are in with the bins of bolts and hardware.
 

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: rooman on February 20, 2014, 06:58:54 AM

Quote from: ricci32 on February 20, 2014, 03:06:18 AM

true value hard ware makes a aluminium screw together fitting that looks like a rivet with a male and female end ,I have used them on several wheels. I don't recall the name one side has a blank head like a rivet the other has a screw slut they are in with the bins of bolts and hardware.

They are known as "sex" bolts. We used then at JFR to attach the rub strips to the bottom of the front body lip. We counterbored the bottom surface of the UHMW rub strip and put the slotted half on the bottom so that on the readily visible top surface all that showed was the smooth end.

Roo

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: ricci32 on February 20, 2014, 07:44:51 AM

Great name

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: dreracecar on February 20, 2014, 07:53:58 AM

Binding post, I get them from McMaster/Carr
Aluminum post and I use a SS machine screw

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Post by: GlennLever on February 20, 2014, 08:41:11 AM

Did you do the wood work?

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: dreracecar on February 20, 2014, 08:54:25 AM

I make the wheels and brake handles and the wood grips for both.

I have a source for exotic wood and then I also do the laminates, what you see in the lams is "purple heart" and "Walnut".  The plain grips what you see are "lepard (checkerd)wood" "Tulip (red streaked)wood" , plain "Maple"(stainable) and "Mahogany"

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: PSweeney on February 20, 2014, 12:13:44 PM

wow those are awesome, I love the laminates.  How do you shape them ? do you have a router jig for them ?

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: dreracecar on February 20, 2014, 01:44:03 PM

CNC Mill

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Post by: ricardo1967 on February 21, 2014, 01:03:24 PM

Bruce, they're are awesome!

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Post by: H.G. Wells on February 21, 2014, 02:31:01 PM

Very nice. Makes me want to take the ones I carved out of Oak and toss them.

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Post by: Curly1 on February 26, 2014, 06:42:23 PM

Nice, That makes me want to make a set for my ride.

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: tcarr on February 28, 2014, 08:20:42 PM

do you sell those cnc wood grips? is there a website or prices or?

Title: Re: Wooden grips ?
Post by: dreracecar on February 28, 2014, 08:52:35 PM

Home now, I will send you something from the shop 'puter tomorrow (SAT)