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That certainly is a rim of beauty. Food for thought Mike.
Jays
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After much discussion and sharing of wood samples, the customer decided on what you see, figured bubinga (African rosewood) with ebony lined joints. AFter delivering it to So-Cal, the fellow there decided it too too much attention away from the interior, so he had the rim painted flat black and the spokes flat gray. I nearly cried. What a total idiot. He could have hung it on the wall as a work of art and ordered another in mat black. I can well understand your emotion.
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Yes, but also holes and slots in a Motolita type wheel look very post-war/60's. I know that I'm now going to be proved wrong!  Aeroman: I meant to comment on this earlier. While you are correct that solid spoke wheels were more prevalent pre-war, I've learned that we can never say never, so I would expect to see some exceptions here and there. But when looking at a Moto-Lita wheel it is so wrong that the holes in the spokes are only a minor factor. So few people are going to have any idea of pre vs. post war designs that it really doesn't matter much anyway as long as the wheel looks the appropriate style overall. Here is a picture of a '38 Maserati with a quite different wheel. I wouldn't swear that the wheel was original since others of that type car have solid four spokes, but it does appear to have been made for this car given the bolt pattern. It may be an acquired taste - It didn't strike me at first, but I've grown to love it for this type of cockpit. 
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That is amazing - and I love the whipped rope outer finish - is it possible to get this kind of whipping done today?  The bosuns on ships I sailed in during the late 60s used to do similar finishing on ships wheels - but I would guess its a dying art - unless u know differently? 
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not surprised - anyone would burst into tears! 
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Mike, that multi layered wheel you showed fascinated me and I was sure I'd seen similar ones before. Just trawled through my photos and found a couple of examples, one certainly on a Talbot and from the paint colour of the second car, possibly a Talbot as well.  
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now THAT is a rev counter.....
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Yes, Jay, I borrowed the design from a Talbot Lago. It was also used on Delage and Delahaye.
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Have my first two M3W steering wheels in finishing. They can be viewed in their photo galleries here: http://www.pbase.com/mdlempert/morgan Two previews...  
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