shift knob | projectboxster

A sports car should have a proper wooden shift knob, IMHO, and I enjoy playing with, err, make that doing work on my wood lathe so I've turned wooden knobs for my hobby cars for years. The shift levers in the other cars I turned knobs for were round with a threaded section on the top so the knobs could me made to just screw on. The Boxster's lever has a rectangular cross section so that makes fitting a knob problematic. This is one way to make a knob that fits...

The first step is to find the blank's center and lay out where cuts will need to be made.

Using a circle cutting bit to cut a slot for the shift pattern medalion's mounting clips.

Drilling 7mm holes in the bottom of the blank to create a 7 x 17mm slot.

Cleaning out the slot with chisels .

Checking to see that the shift lever arm fits neatly the slot. This is my car's OEM shift lever, I have one of Ben's short shifters installed in my car.

I trimed a scrap of wood so that it's the same size as the shifter's arm.

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