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Shiro666
12-03-2008, 06:29 AM
Greeting Folks,

The leather on my Momo shift Knob was looking a little ratty, so I dipped into my leatherworking experience and replaced it with Anaconda. It involves a lot of trimming and stretching to get the pattern of the scales to look quite right, as well as the willingness to glue one's fingers together. I covered the skin mostly with Epoxy, leaving enough scale texture for gription.

When I get tired of this I am going to go with Stingray skin.

Hope you guy's and gal's dig it!

-Nick

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Steve68
12-03-2008, 07:57 AM
Scary, shark skin would be cool,
watahyahknow
12-03-2008, 11:27 AM
looks cool , if you clear coat it it should hold for quite a while
ill steez
12-03-2008, 01:42 PM
thats actually really cool.
JJSmitches
12-03-2008, 01:50 PM
Gription!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHRIS67
12-04-2008, 05:08 AM
Gripafication. :pat:
Shiro666
12-04-2008, 05:53 AM
Glad you guy's like it.

Ever since my crotchety machine tool instructor said kah-nurled fur Gription it has yet to leave my vocabulary.
WS6
12-04-2008, 06:00 AM
kah-nurled fur gription haha that's great.

Where did you get the anaconda skin? That's pretty dang cool
watahyahknow
12-04-2008, 06:32 AM
oh you want grip......use cactusskin
Shiro666
12-04-2008, 07:55 AM
You can get Anaconda in a bunch if colors through most Exotic Leather dealers online. This batch was given to me by a friend.

I really want to do Ray or Sharkskin the next time around. Perhaps in Red.

It's a fine line between unique and cheesy.
CHRIS67
12-04-2008, 09:08 AM
Do you think you can wrap a steering wheel with it? That would be a nice match to the shift lever.
Shiro666
12-04-2008, 10:15 AM
That is the goal.

Snakeskin will not have the longevity that I would like on a steering wheel. The epoxy coat on the Knob is very durable, but I perfer a more tactile feel on steering wheels.

I think Shark or Rayskin would be the material of choice for steering wheels.

It is going to be REALLY tough to do, but I think worth it.
Kenova
12-04-2008, 06:14 PM
:banghead: I read the thread title and expected something very different, and not work friendly.
I need more sleep.

Ken
DIK069
12-04-2008, 06:52 PM
Interesting. I'm now griptified.