All hail the algorithm! I have thought about making my own steering wheel a bunch of times but bottled out because it seemed like too much work. Thanks for confirming that it, indeed, was too much work.

"And without buying any new tools." I look forward to seeing what new tools Matt has bought.

I remember seeing wood steering wheels being manufactured when I was a kid, in the UK. They were made out of 2 donuts, like this, but from thin plywood. Alternate plies were dark and light, so when the circular profile was routed you got a pretty striped finish. And of course, because the alternate plies are in perpendicular directions, it A LOT stronger than 8 pieces of solid wood glued together ever would be.

Those "shelves" are called rabbet joints. Those are flush trim cutting bits. You did a good job for a non woodworker.

All hail the algorithm! One of my top 10 channels for the moment... good sense of humor, good sense of good enough, good sense of sense

I didn't think I could find another build channel that could compete with Bad Obsession motorsport but Matt has the edge on humour and almost keeps up in the creative/technical side - Well done Sir!

Take smaller cuts, and make sure that you're always going with the grain. Just because you're moving into the bit, it's still possible to get the grain backwards.

Great job - I’m in awe of your willingness to have a go at anything. The end result looks way better than the guys at Retropower produced for project Utah. Plus, your delivery is just great. All hail the algorithm…

5:26 "if i was making a steering wheel for a cyber truck i will stop here" Savage! Cybertruck has a triangle steering wheel

Super Japanese Matt could have told you how to do Shou Sugi Ban to finish the wood. Great work!

“Wood shelf”? In some alternate universe there is “SuperfastMatt - Woodworking edition” calling screws “corkscrew thingys”

6:22 your "shelf" is called a lap joint. It's a good option for a lot of things.

I nearly spat out my food at your little “NOoo” around 7:14 lol. Classic and relatable feeling

Just found your channel with a Tesla video. You are underrated!

A nice blend of old world craftsmen'ship and some angry pixies with a smattering of adult words. Anything that's an excuse to buy more tools is cool with me.

All hail the algorithm. I love homemade steering wheels. They allow you to use a bunch of skills without needing to be an absolute master at any of them. They can easily be personalised and they are relatively cheap to make. Finally, re: sanding. No matter how long you estimate ANY sanding job will take it will eventually take infinitely longer.

Very noble of you to concede the correct pronunciation of Aluminium!

Fun thing about the pronunciation of aluminum. When it was introduced to the US, the term "Aluminum" was brought over from England, when the name was still in flux between Alumine, Alumium, and Aluminum, thanks to Sir Walter Davy. While the term Aluminum (for the theoretical metallic base of alumina) was working through US colleges, a Brit coined Aluminium, to try and make the element fit in with Davy's existing naming scheme that he used for elements like Potassium.

Nice ALUMINIUM, and great wood

The connections you used for this are called “half lap” and are indeed a way to glue two pieces together:)

You sir are the this old Tony of car KZfaq. Came across you a few weeks back (all hail the algorithm ) and now I’ve watched pretty much all your videos.

That bit at the end where you said 'probably next week' on the Jag, perfect time for 'Even more lies!'. LOL! Keep up the great work!

I love that you are sponsored by Send Cut Send!! That must be a DREAM COME TRUE!!

I thought you were past the pit of despair portion of the jag project. Hitting integration hell now?

Great ! 👍 And tools and more tools. It's a relief to know those tools are available to you at any time after you purchased them. Next project , tools and more tools...😂

Another great video, your crew in starship troopers would be proud! Thanks for your comment on the last video! Made my day Super Neil Patrick Harris’s brother!

I was missing the Jag videos.

You know what’s more fun than routing your own steering wheel? Using a desktop router like an X-Carve to do it. Your will likely really enjoy not worrying about loosing fingers and how you will cover up your screw ups. Most CNC software sucks and is massively frustrating to use to the point of driving you to making it by hand but there are some simple to learn controllers like X-Carve or KiriMoto that only need a basic model or line drawing. I’ve been a product designer for 30 years and the desktop CNC and printers have been a real treat for projects like what your working on. I love and still use Send Cut Send but I can also get templates done same day on my X-Carve and who doesn’t like instant gratification, and fingers?

That came out fantastic!! Super entertaining and informative. Thanks, Matt!

Wow, Matt, that steering wheel looks amazing, you are a talented man, I think that’s why I love your channel. All hail the algorithm! 😎

More tools is always good.

Dude, I am not joking when i say that iv been looking for a good video for the past 4 months. I’ve only found other one and he made it in a makers space. This one was a game changer

Wow - your videos just bring me unbridled hilarious nerdy joy. Thank you :)

You need to do a cross over with Rich Rebuilds.

There’s a finish for Maple that dates back at least to the Revolution. It was used on LongRifles as well as musical instruments. The traditional name is AquaFortis, the formula is 50% Nitric acid and 50% distilled water used VERY carefully. If you make it always remember AAA, always add acid to water not the reverse. Steel filings or easier steel wool is dissolved into it until it is Neutralized and won’t dissolve anymore. Strain it through cheesecloth to remove iron particles and save in a glass container such as a mason jar. It’s still somewhat caustic but much safer to use. Use rubber gloves though or a cotton dauber on a stick is the traditional way. Make sure to raise the grain several times and knock it back down with finishing paper before applying it fairly evenly. Heat is then applied traditionally with a heated iron bar other methods are usable a well. The smaller the heat source the more control. A sunburst effect is easily achieved. The heat is combined with the sugar in the maple to carmelize it and allowing colors between yellow up through orange red and into brown. It doesn’t darken the grain which is still clearly visible. On rifles it was also combined with silver wire inlay to give nice contrast, I’ve also seen copper wire used. Both the inlay and aqua fortis are fairly inexpensive to learn. The traditional topcoat is boiled linseed oil. Which gives it a wonderful luster With a miles deep effect, it seems to be on fire. It’s also incredibly easy to touch up if damaged and has a Wonderful odor. Just don’t get it from Wal Mart. Tried and Trued wood finish has the real stuff. The curlier the maple the better.

When you are milling in the pulling direction on a table - maybe it would help to have a bearing 2/3 of the wheel diameter away from the router. Fixed to the table. That way the setup has 2 points to be stable at.. 🤔 ..it might work.. ..or not - don't really know.. 🤭

The over-roasted maple is actually charcoal, now.

I just discovered your channel. And English being a 2nd language i thought Super British Matt is really a different person in the other video. I was wrong. Anyway thanks for all the commentaries. This channel is the most informative practical automotive engineering i have watched. Thank you SuperfastMatt.

Oh my! NICE GUITAR, MATT! 😲👌👍

It’s round! Kudos to you sir!

This is such a fantastic channel. Thank you for the honesty and sincerity, it's like a beacon in a bottomless ocean of crap

came out pretty good. Another thing I'd suggest is doweling the wood, so it can't fall off. Also the dowels look cool

I appreciate that you have two pairs of glasses. It means you're cool.

Metalwork: send cut send Woodwork: sand, cut sand

Man I really want to make a steering wheel for my 69 mustang and my 68 C10 now. Yours turned out awesome!

Don´t worry. Here in Sweden we have about 4 different types of pronouncing the famous word aluminum, only thanks to dialects within the country. Thanks for doing this channel, all the funny comments and....hard....work? ;) Keep it up Matt, doing great!

1st time viewer and I can't even count how many times you had me laughing out loud. Thanks!

Well that turned out really nice. I like the 1 inch opposed to a smaller diameter. Very impressive. The new router and table were a good idea for sure.

Nice job with the bunch of old tools laying around 😁

You NEVER cease to amaze me you glorious barsteward

Another great video, Matt. Your simple shelf joint looks a great deal like a lap joint, btw.

The maple and polished aluminum are a nice combo

Awesome...Extactly what I am trying to do. Hope I can get at least half the result you got. Thank you for sharing.

All hail the algorithm

That's really cool man. Well done. 👍

I tried to guess what "aluminium" is in Japanese based on my rudimentary learning so far, and came up with アルミニアン because it autocompleted as katakana. A quick google search shows that to be "Armenian" instead though, so hey. I don't know why I told you this.

Nice work! Thanks.

Wonderfully amusing and informative.

Oh sick I watched your Honda build a while ago and forgot about your channel, got curious about building a steering wheel and found you again. Subscribed so that won’t happen again.

Great work! In British English you 'route' a groove (rather than 'router' a groove), so that's probably where the extra syllable in Aluminium was obtained from (I assume that the 1LT also applies to syllables, i.e. they can never be created or destroyed, only moved from one word to another)...

Beautiful job Matt!

Great job. I like the new steering wheel.

Man, those tiny Hondas are beautiful. I bet they're super fun to drive too.

"Half Baked" 🤣😂🤣😂 sounds like a lot of my rc ideas 👍

Why yes, i do love my automotive ideas half-baked and questionably good! How did you kno... Oh.

That's beautiful Matt! Inspiring to say the least.

Very satisfying work! Well done.

I love your videos! I hope you are noticed by the algorithm gods enough to get the recognition you deserve so you can get paid doing things you love, all while letting us experience through your pain blood sweat and tears

I love your humor. I especially enjoyed the "hefty" and "wimpy"

3:39 the most engineer thing ever said.

Dude you are absolutely hilarious 😂😂 so glad I came across your channel! Now I'm gonna try making a steering wheel for a car I don't have

I love my Nardi steering wheels...I've fitted them to several cars over the years.

Dude. Incredible. I’m going to build one right meow.💯

Entertaining as always Matt, and educational too... in a "Don't do this" kind of format! 🤣

Looks great!

The remark of "Low resolution donut" got me. That took a lot of stress off of my week as a soon-to-be EE student.

Stunning!

"I'll probably work on it next week....probably." You sound like me saying I'm going to finish installing and painting all of the wood trim in my entire house.

You're absolutely right about Hotpoint. It was originally an iron (clothes flattening appliance) company and they got popular making irons that were hotter at the front, i.e the pointy bit. People knew them as "the irons with the hot point" and there's the name. The guy behind it also had a line of appliances called things like "El Tosto" and "El Perco" and also founded the city of Adelanto. So there you go.

5:15 what a coincidence: just watched this movie (again) last night 😊

Best car content on youtube!

Nice Wheel!

Nice work. It's making me want to make one for my project, even though it would look awful and out of place. Perhaps I should just stick to that plasticky seventies goodness.

great video, such awesome work on the wheel!!

I couldn't care less about cars, but here I am watching your videos. You're a great presenter, very entertaining.

Came out nice!

Sarcastic enough. Eyes on the upper right corner.. Perfect. And I need more space in my garage.

*NICE* Way to *SEND Cut SEND It* Brah... *Sickkkkk*

Tip for the gluing, use wet rag to wipe off any that is pushed out and when glue has solified to hard jelly like, it will hold the peaces already but remove it from the clamps and use box cutter to remove any remaining glue so little sanding removes whats left. For sanding you might want to try sanding bow to get more uniformed bend.

Nicely done, from a cabinetmaker 😎. Really enjoy your work.

climb routing, finger joints and pattern bits

Impressive project. I mean next to the Nardi it definitely looks homemade but it's still admirable work. I'd say it's a perfect candidate for a leather wrap.

Looks great.

Oh my gosh, cracked me up @ 7:20. That's me on every project ever.

Been there, did that fifty years ago at school, metalwork. I cut out the aluminium by hand, that was the hardest part. Used marine plywood on either side and riveted it on with aluminium rivets. It was then mounted on a woodworking lathe to profile the plywood. It came out great with a strip of metal showing around the rim. All in all a much easier way to do it if you have access to a lathe. English schools were good back then!

To stop blowing apart the wood when routing is to nibble away at the in the direction opposite the router bit, after completing that task you will do a final routing in the same direction of the bit. Works every time. Having a really sharp bit also helps

this is call the world class jobs 😍 amazing !

Automotive ideas got FULLY Baked in this episode 😊

The steering wheel looks great. If you wanted to retain the original, the wheel ring can be sprayed in the rubber finish material they use on mobile phones, any colour you like. If the centre is aluminium, it can be vapour blasted with glass beads to a mirror shine. If the centre is steel, it can be painted in a chrome basecoat and a candy clearcoat so it looks like a chrome anodised finish, again any color you like to match or contrast the colour of the wheel rim.. A whole lot more choices.

Nice job on the steering wheel!!