Yet another blingtastic modification. It’s kind of fun to do though so I figured I’d throw it up here in case anyone cared to see it. There’s really no fuel economy reason for it, but whatever. The more you love your car the better mileage you’ll get, or at least that’s how I see it, *wink*

Time: 20 minutes

Tools:
- Hobby Knife
- Matches

Supplies:
- Crayon of your preferred color
- Shift knob
- Foam (for modeling)

My tools:

Here’s the shift knob when I got it in the mail, and little dirty:

I had to cut some hook crap off the bottom (which you prolly should do since that’s what to boot attaches to, but I wasn’t thinking and my boot it too short anyway, fool me):

Scraped the gunk out of the stuff I wanted to do on the top to get a better surface:

Melted up the loose ends on the bottom where I cut it:

Bunch of crap melted all over cuz it’s not an exact process. You need to shave the crayon and push the shavings into the ruts with your fingernails. I had the problem of when I heated it it jump out of the rut, but then I repressed-in the melted stuff and tried again and it worked. It took a few tries, but I eventually ended up with all the stuff in there and just had to clean stuff off. I had no problems over heating the knob with the matches, but be careful anyway:

Finished product:

Here’s the knob in the car, looking sorta red all subtle like (the light makes it so you can’t see it really but it’s there, and the knob is one of my favorites, go 90-93 accord!):

Tags: Cosmetic, DIY

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