Tips on recovering a steering wheel Options

[spare time toys]

I got the MOMO wheel from Dougc and am going to recover it. I have got the leather coming. Is there anyplace to learn a baseball stich?

[SpecialK]

You are in luck today Larry.......go buy a lotto ticket!

I just took a break from installing a new AGLA cover on a leather wheel I'm doing for a door prize at the FFC. And since I'm in the process of actually doing the stitch you mentioned, I'll post a series of pics ('cause I'm too 'puter stupid to do it in one post (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) ), so...

First let me say that you will go completely insane if you do this with raw, unpunched leather, it's bad enough with a kit......but if "crazy" is just a short walk from where you're at, and you have nothing but time...I applaud you! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/pray.gif)

Now the "stitch". I'm not sure how many spokes your MOMO has, but you'll want to do it in sections. Pull off 4 times as much thread as you think you'll need for each section....example of the amount of thread you'll use doing this stitch - I cut 30" of thread to do the small area between the spokes on a standard leather 914 steering wheel, and only had 6" to spare when I finished the section, so extra is better, it would suck to have to make a splice in the middle of the stitch.

Here we go...

A pic of where I stopped a few minutes ago...I use one needle, tried two, big PITA with two. Then I move the needle from one thread to the other (not a problem, big eye in the needle). The first pic shows the thread to your right, threaded approx. 3" through the needle, looped around to the opposite side to the next open hole below the thread on your left-hand side, then across to the open hole below the thread being pulled....hope that makes sense.