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  1. 26th October 2009, 08:51 PM #1
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    Exclamation steering wheel wood???

    A friend is restoring an old Bugatti car and needs to make a wooden steering wheel.We guess it would be made of English Walnut. Is there anywhere in Australia where you can bye this wood.
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  3. 26th October 2009, 09:58 PM #2
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    Mahogany is more traditional for steering wheels than Walnut.
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    I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.

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  4. 26th October 2009, 11:41 PM #3
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    Does he have the elephant that goes on the radiator cap???
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    I agree with WW. I have a Derrington and it appears to be laminations of mahogany.

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    I made one for a friends 1916 Autocar lorry

    There were a few scraps of the original wood, enough to get a profile and being from an American truck it was probably hickory, the nearest I could get was ash.

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  7. 27th October 2009, 07:44 PM #6
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    I have no idea.I did not know there was an elephant on it.
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  8. 27th October 2009, 08:01 PM #7
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    Default steering wheel wood

    Thanks to all for your assistance it is most helpful.
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