Boyd went on to building a wheel company, and Buttera went back to milling out custom office furniture, coffee tables, end tables and chairs. He also incorporated this unique furniture pattern design into product displays including a wheeled cart that is a work of art. Today, the manufacturing of billet wheels is a far cry from a couple of hot rodders milling a few sets in the privacy of their hobby shops. The billet wheel segment of the aftermarket business has taken on whole new proportions. Keeping up with styles, compounded by the similarity of designs between competing product lines, almost makes this portion of the wheel business a custom business.
Most manufacturers check all their wheels for acceptable run out.
The upside to manufacturing billet wheels on a CNC machine is you can make a few parts quickly. You also have the ability to make on-going styling modifications and adjustments as minor as altering the depth and width of a radius cut without hesitation. Don't forget the added expense of having to make any production run alterations, as they will be both time consuming and expensive, to an already expensive mold. Beyond the sheer art form of the wheel itself, look deeply into the construction process and material selection. The CNC machining process is one of the least efficient manufacturing procedures, but it fits our market very well when you consider that it can machine a set of wheels for you in one swipe, and another version for me the next.