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Nickynoodles wrote: I dont want to replace the whole wheel, just the cover, does anyone know where to source one, and should I try to remove the original stitched cover?

fowljesse wrote:Welcome to the forum!
I'd like to see pics in a worklog
You must have a leather covered wheel, if you can remove the stitches. That's cool. They're hard to find, and chances are that you won't find another one, and if you do, it'll be a long time. I've been looking for one for years. However, you can rewrap yours pretty easily, if you're handy. I have made them before, without a pattern. You have a pattern, if you carefully cut the stitching. You'd just lay the pattern over Deerskin, or some other thin, supple leather, and cut it out. Then lay it, and tie it onto your wheel with simple string around the outside, to keep it in place. Then, learn the "BaseBall" stitch, by looking at it while you're cutting, and unravelling it. Then get some good string, and stitch it up. You'll want it to be really tight, so if it overlaps, you'll need to trim it. For the part where you sew it together to go around the circumference, and it meets at the bottom of the wheel, you can pull it tight on the wheel, measure where it meets, and sew it together on a machine, or by hand, with the stitch hidden on the inside. If I don't get a leather wheel soon, I'll wrap mine, and post up a how-to. I've done shift knobs, and handbrakes, etc... too, and will be doing mine.