restoring a woodgrain steering wheel

[cbrestorations]

i did my first attempt at restoring a woodgrain wheel today, have to say it came out purdy decent. the spokes had bad pitting and rust so i ground down the rust with a 180 wheel, then a 320, then hit them with a wire wheel to clean up sanding scratched then finished with a brillow pad, spokes came out awesome with a nice brushed finish shine, i didnt go the easy route and aluminum paint them like some of the so called restored wheels on ebay lol. then i epoxy puddy filled the craters in the wheel, waited till hard and then sanded down. next i painted the wheel a camel tan then a brown right after. to get the grain look i poured thinner on a rag then ran a paint brush across the thinner soaked rag. i brushed the steering wheel bringing out the inner camel tan color. looks cool, i have all the trim and spokes taped up, when i took the pics it was still drying.

[skip68]

Beautiful.      can't wait to see the end results. 

[Lord Warlock]

Excellent timing, was just thinking about what to do to clean my wheel up, seems I got overspray on it when painting car with windshield out.  got most of it off using steel wool, but still need to get color back, so will be watching yours. 

[charger chris]

 

[PlainfieldCharger]

  Looking great so far!! Can't wait to see some shots of those spokes.

[timmycharger]

Great job CB, can you give more info on what paint you used? I really like how that came out. My wheel is nice, but the plastic is starting to rot and smell a little so I would love to re finish it.   

[cbrestorations]

i just used what i had in my cabinet which was camel tan for the base and then leather brown for the top coat

[Dino]

Good job!  Can't wait to see the finished product.

Now you're gonna make me do mine.   

[tan top]

 looks good CBR 

[VegasCharger]

 

[nvrbdn]

nice.