my new custom wood stereo knobs...
03-10-2012, 04:41 PM
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my new custom wood stereo knobs...
The volume knob on my newly purchased 2000 wagon was really bugging me so I tackled this project. With help from here and elsewhere I figured out how to get the command unit out and free the knobs, then I turned two cocobolo knobs on my lathe. It took a lot of work and many refinements but I think it's a vast improvement over the soft melting rubber knobs of yesterday!
03-11-2012, 06:28 PM
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1999 E320 & 2008 S550 Designo
The volume knob on my newly purchased 2000 wagon was really bugging me so I tackled this project. With help from here and elsewhere I figured out how to get the command unit out and free the knobs, then I turned two cocobolo knobs on my lathe. It took a lot of work and many refinements but I think it's a vast improvement over the soft melting rubber knobs of yesterday!
Wish I had the talent to do that.
03-12-2012, 01:02 AM
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Thanks for the encouragement. Having used the knobs for a couple days now I have to say that the feel of them is so much more "high end" than the soft rubber. I look for excuses to use them!
03-16-2012, 10:23 AM
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I try not to go too crazy but when I sit in the car and look around I think of all the things I could make. But in the end it would be totally ridiculous to have an all wood interior....or would it?!
