Thank you very much for all, your kind comments,I am still on the "Bling" wagon and decided what I could do with the steering wheel. The prototype boat as is now has a very plan wheel just a simple rim and 3 spokes all in brass. Now this may have been the original Naval wheel and as I am building the model as it is now rather than what it might have been a hundred years ago I suppose I should really just make a simple wheel as per the existing boat.
BUT, I just fancy something more elaborate. So onto the CADD and knocked up a picture that I liked.
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I started by cutting up some red wood into 12mm x 12mm x 75mm pieces and milled them square. Then I made an angle template at 22.5 deg. to aid setting up the wood in the mill
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Eight of the pieces were milled to the same lengths and glued together.
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I then turned the ID to the size I need. A brass ring was turned and glued into the wood ring.
I turned up and aluminum arbor to fit the inner ring so I could turn the OD of the wood ring. At this point I reduced the thickness to 5mm. Then to make a brass ring for the OD and glue into place then back on the arbor to turn the finished OD.
Onto the Drill mill for the 8.2mm holes.
The spokes were next making the outside ones first then the inner ones.
I glued them in with 2K Araldite.
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The boss was a simple turn and glue job.
Robert