Custom Toyota Shift Knob

Haha thanks man. Yes you are right, turned down on a lathe, grooves put in with the grooving tool, then drilled and tapped on the lathe. Then draw the picture in autocad, upload it into mastercam, and write a program for the cnc, you are exactly correct. The cnc's are Hass, and the lathes I'm not sure, they're old. I actually make them at school, I'm only in high school. The teacher recently added the cnc machines, two big cnc mills, also two cnc lathes(I just use the manual, although would be easier to write a program for it, would produce faster, much funner manually though), and a mini cnc mill and mini cnc lathe. Its really neat and I love doing it!!!

 

any news on the t handle shifter?

 

? T-handle shifter?

 

one of the first post you talked about making one

 

I haven't tried it yet, but I can see how it would turn out. Do you have anything in mind as to how you think you would want it to look?

 

Hey Pope,

1st post here as a new Tacoma owner. Wondering if you could make a shift handle with an attached extension? Maybe a 2" extension the same diameter as the shift linkage with your custom knob on top? I had a Frontier that had a great tall stock shift handle. I want to extend the stock shaft and add a custom knob (aluminum). Should be able to make it out of one 5" piece on the lathe. Would kind of look like a popsicle when finished. Let me know if you could do something like that and how much. Thanks!

 

I think I would definately get one if you could make a round one in either black or a dark titanium color

 

Im going to look today about the ball shaped shifter knob.

 

here's a pic of my old one from my magnum,

 

dont know how close you can get to it but, let me knowwhat you can come up with.

 

bump

 

Newest shifter, it has a three inch extension which it the first picture shown. And a three inch shifther, with the Toyota logo obviously. Let me know what you think. This one is going to shanomac.

 

Hey all, and especially Pope! Here are a few pics of the shift handle and extension installed. Sorry it took so long- been a hellish couple of weeks. But here they are anyways.

Pope- you do incredible work!

The rest of you considering purchasing Pope's craftsmanship- do not hesitate for a second! You will not be disappointed!

Shano

 

very nice work Pope!

 

I will buy one out of Brass i think that looks BA. for an A/T

 

This one is one I just finished that will be going to joneill03.

 

This one is going to 375taco!

 

Thanks man lookin forward to getting it! Looks great!

 

What about for automatics?

Could you do the photo in my avatar?