Steering wheel

Greg is on vacation until the 2nd.  Last I knew he used the 21mm fine spline shaft, which equates to 61-73 VW Beetle and  MSW can provide that exact steering hub for their wheel.  You can wait and verify this with Greg or you can pull your wheel and measure your splines to see.

OK, that helps. It looks like it will fit. Thanks!

Are you set on the Banjo style?  Many here will tell you its flimsy, has skinny grip and is quite large in diameter.  Nardi (or Nardi replica) is often chosen here.

NARDI STYLE WHEEL KIT

@WOLFGANG the standard 3 spoke Flat 4 style banjo is very flimsy, however the MSW 2 spoke is much more stout.

I have the Nardi style. Like it, but I thought I would try this. I like the look better.

I have a banjo in the Spyder and a 2 spoke in the 356. The 2 spoke (real Porsche) is stiffer than the banjo but the banjo gets pretty stiff when you push the little rods over the spokes to the center. I tighten up my banjo wheel every time before I drive my Spyder.

It's normal to tune an instrument before playing it

@IaM-Ray posted:

It's normal to tune an instrument before playing it

I have a 2000 American Standard Stratocaster. I can pull it out of the case after a year and it will still be in tune. In fact, when I moved back to Utah from New York it was still in tune, with itself, after 2100 miles in a Ryder truck.
It was perfectly in tune, albeit 1/2 step low. (E flat to E flat)

@dlearl476 posted:

I have a 2000 American Standard Stratocaster. I can pull it out of the case after a year and it will still be in tune. In fact, when I moved back to Utah from New York it was still in tune, with itself, after 2100 miles in a Ryder truck.
It was perfectly in tune, albeit 1/2 step low. (E flat to E flat)

Nice 👍

If they're properly set-up they seem to stay in tune, relatively speaking. It seems that guitar set-up is much like getting a car sorted. Very few seem to be done correctly, a lot of people fiddle with them without really knowing what they're doing.

I picked up this MIM Strat a couple of months back, even though I wasn't interested in strats 😬😀

@550aus posted:

I picked up this MIM Strat a couple of months back, even though I wasn't interested in strats 😬😀

You can never have too many guitars, right @Butcher Boy?

How come you can only get 4 E's and 4 G's and 4 F's on a 3 spoke Banjo wheel ?  Tightening them with the little choker bars seems to just change the octave !  If the wind hits them just right, they hum on their own !

Bruce

@550aus posted:

Nice 👍

I picked up this MIM Strat a couple of months back, even though I wasn't interested in strats 😬

I just gave my Mexican strat exactly like that to my son for Christmas. It was a scratch and dent I bought from the guitar shop that maintained all of our guitar stuff for the shows I worked on in Las Vegas. I raised the action and strung it really with heavy strings and used it to play slide guitar.

THis must be a sliding tread drift…. Riversong guitars are pretty cool

@Michael Pickett posted:

You can never have too many guitars, right @Butcher Boy?

I'm at 24 and counting .......... Just got the latest for Christmas. It's a cute little travel Taylor all Koa to take to Maui in April.

@Butcher Boy posted:

I'm at 24 and counting .......... Just got the latest for Christmas. It's a cute little travel Taylor all Koa to take to Maui in April.

You might beat out Vince Gill’s collection

@IaM-Ray posted:

You might beat out Vince Gill’s collection

Not even close Ray. Just one of Mr Gills guitars is worth more than 5 of my best. He is a true collector and one hell of a player. I just play at it and buy what I like that won't break the bank. It really is a sickness that I do enjoy  ............

My first guitar was a Zim-Gar 101, back when Japan was what China is now. I graduated to a Yamaha G-50, then an Epiphone. Back in1976 I picked up my current baby, a Martin D-35.

I had a spare 1954 Martin 00-16 that was really sweet. I payed $50 for that one and it's probably the best deal I got in my life outside of Marianne agreeing to tie the knot. I sold it and the 911 turbo when gathering enough cash to relocate to Maui. It was a good trade.

I've got a $5 Yamaha classical and the D-35 now. My hands get weaker and shakier every year due to the essential tremors, so I don't play as much as I used to. I play for the grandkids and wonder if I should hang on to the D-35 to leave to one of them, or sell it for their college fund.

Music has been a huge part of my life and each guitar has a key memory. Such a blessing!

@chines1 posted:

Greg is on vacation until the 2nd.  Last I knew he used the 21mm fine spline shaft, which equates to 61-73 VW Beetle and  MSW can provide that exact steering hub for their wheel.  You can wait and verify this with Greg or you can pull your wheel and measure your splines to see.

@Superuber. When I was in contact with MSW, they asked me to pull my steering wheel and take a photo to email them.

Michael .......How could you NOT be into guitars with a last name like yours ?.......Bruce

@aircooled posted:

Michael .......How could you NOT be into guitars with a last name like yours ?.......Bruce

Up there with Joe Strummer

I built a couple of guitars in my early 20s, using the necks from a couple of Ibanez guitars and making the bodies out of hard maple or red oak. I used custom pick-ups and bridge arrangements. I even built two hardshell cases for them, set up to look like a shipping crate with a carrying handle. The entire exercise was just to see if I could do it. My friend built a hollowbody including building his own neck, which is about 100x harder than what I did. It sounded "OK", but the action was nothing like a good guitar.

Martins were crazy expensive when I was into guitars in the early 80s. Even then, getting one for $50 would be like buying a Speedster for $1500 (which was also possible at the time).

I'm afraid I missed peak value on a lot of the stuff I always thought I'd pick up sometime down the road. Ground in the Ozarks is no longer $1500/acre, a C2 'vette is no longer $30k, and a righteous Telecaster is not a $500 guitar.

I paid almost $200 for the prime rib we ate for Christmas, and that money is floating around in the municipal sewage lagoon at this point. I'm not sure how any normal person plans for retirement -- but the "enough to retire comfortably" number keeps getting bigger. I'm having a moderate amount of fun right now, I think I'll just keep on keeping on.

Yes, I feel like the old man limping out of 2024. I guess that means tomorrow, I'll be a new bouncing baby in 2025.

@Kevin - Bay Area posted:

@Superuber. When I was in contact with MSW, they asked me to pull my steering wheel and take a photo to email them.

I sent him pics of my wheel. Again, seems like it may be a language issue. He tells me he can't see the pics. Either way I may just order it or I may just scrub it... Was considering selling the car anyways.

Be sure to measure size of current Nardi and compare to the banjo.  A large wheel makes getting in and out (plus driving) uncomfortable.  Many like a 14" wheel over a 15+" one.  Also compare dish - some are flat and take a deeper adapter.

@WOLFGANG posted:

Be sure to measure size of current Nardi and compare to the banjo.  A large wheel makes getting in and out (plus driving) uncomfortable.  Many like a 14" wheel over a 15+" one.  Also compare dish - some are flat and take a deeper adapter.

Boy I need to go back to the carnivore diet

My first guitar was a Stella I bought for 5 bucks at the swap meet in 1962. It didn't have any strings and was kinda beat up but my friend Pat played guitar and knew he would help me. He put some strings on it and taught me how to tune it and play a few cords. I started taking guitar lessons at Eastmans Studio's, Guitar Showcase in San Jose. I got good enough that Mr. Eastman convinced my Dad to buy me a better guitar. To my surprise my Dad agreed to it and bought me a new Fender Stratocaster, a Fender twin reverb amp and a Shure microphone and stand. This was in 1964 and he paid close to $ 300.00 bucks, it was a huge amount of money back then. He told me I'd better play the crap out of that guitar. I did play a lot, but we moved into an apartment and the lady next door complained about my playing so it went under the bed until I was a junior  in High School. I still had the Stella and would take it to the beach to play around the campfire. But I really wanted a better guitar, so I took my Strat and amp back to Eastman's and traded it for a really nice Yamaha FG 300 that just came out in 1970. I should have traded for a Martin, but really didn't know any better at the time. Today that Strat is worth over 20K. I still have the Yamaha and it lives at my Tahoe house. I just played it yesterday and it still is a great guitar. I now have 23 acoustic guitars and one Gold Top Les Paul sign by Joe Bonamassa. I own several  Taylor's, Martin's and Yamaha's, but most of what I own are custom made for me. Baranik, Hamblin, Sexhauer and Schoenfeld are most of the makers. They all are beautiful and sound different. I rotate them out of my lineup of guitars I play every few months so they get played and are not just put away in their cases. Music is the one thing that I never get tired of. Playing guitar and writing songs is real magic when it all comes together. I'm lucky I found it ............

I really like my steering wheel too

I've gone in the opposite direction in some ways, all electric, no acoustic. I do cycle through them like you, they all sound and play differently. Picking one up after not playing it for a month or so is like getting a new guitar.