will it have a flat top or be curved all around?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Battan" <battanhr@comcast.net>
To: "'Barrie Robinson'" <barrie@look.ca>; <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>;
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:38 PM
Subject: RE: Gear shift knobs
> Barrie, what shape do you plan? A sphere, or a spherical top, with a
> pear-shaped bottom half? I might be interested in two of them.
>
> Howard Battan
> '57 MGA
> '79 MGB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Barrie Robinson
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:35 PM
> To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Gear shift knobs
>
> A wood local turner made me a bird's eye and ebony gear shift but due
> to bad glue (weak crazy glue) it came apart. Now he says he can make
> another and I have decided on solid black Indian ebony. However they
> only sell it in 2" X 2" X 18" pieces - enough for 6 knobs! Is there
> anyone out there that would want one of these. The cost of the wood
> per knob works out at $8 and I think he would turn them for $15
> each. So allowing for postage the bill would be roughly $25.
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