woodgraining shops

[Ward Duffield]

can anyone recommend shops to refinish the interior woodgraining on the window garnish moldings?Can't seem to be able to find new NOS parts.

Thanks

[BobT-47P15]

There are usually some persons offering this service in Hemmings Motor

News classified ads. I don't know any personally.

[Bingster]

Check out www.woodgraining.com. They sell supplies to do your own or they offer a service to restore your parts. Some very interesting info on how the auto companies did it.

[47heaven]

This is actually pretty cool, but since my interior colors are gray, do they have a gray woodgrain pattern and color? Of course all the garnish trim and dash boards he used were from Ford and Chevy. Nothing for Plymouth or Chrysler. What is the woodgrain pattern that was used for the P-15 dashes and trim or is that something that has been posted before and I will be prompted to search for on here?

[MarcDeSoto]

I watched these videos and they do mention Plymouth for 46-48. They call the base coat Driftwood and the straight grain Sapele. There are three different shades of Driftwood. I think the darkest one might match my DeSoto.

[claybill]

look up past woodgrain threads and posts...very interesting.

many folks claim to know how it was done..some even say 'by-hand' can you believe it!!?

but no one really has the answer....i contend that it was applied somehow

with paint BEFORE stamping.!

bill

[claybill]

if you look at a grained dash or window moulding from a plymouth....look closely at the edges and overlap areas..look to see the logic of how it was applied and went around corners....and consider..why are all dashes the same..does the grain go in line with the metal or up and down. does it follow the metal contour or does it look like it was grained from a larger piece the sgaped like a dash???!!! check direction along windshield edge...

just analyze and re-trace the process..

bill

[BobT-47P15]

Weren't the mopar dashes/frames done with a "di noc" decal?

I think that type may still be available. Have seen some info on

re-doing dashes in the past. Mine, in the convert, was always

painted body color....never was woodgrain.

All convertibles in the P15 era were that way.

[Furylee2]

My brother bought one of these kits from Grain-It Tech. He hasn't used it yet, but his window garnish moldings (46 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4 door) need to be re-done.

We were looking at the edges where the metal wraps around, and it is painted a base coat of gray before it was wood grained.

So maybe re-graining your dash like the P15’s where when they were new would meet your color scheme.

[knighthawk]

did you do a search here ? there's some info there that may help.,, that's how I did mine

[claybill]

bob..etc. convertibles were never woodgrained. always body color...

i heard thatthe daash is an integral support member in a conv't. , and in that process?? was always painted. or maybe with the top down there was no way to preserve the grain effect from the sun.

bill

[David Maxwell]

...because they do it. The process was a roll-on which I myself do. There were some dashes stamped after graining such as the Hudson. This is due to their "simple" dash pattern. The complex nature of the mopar dashes with many curves and linear grain would make that impossible. The roll on process is not easy, but when mastered generates the EXACT pattern on the original dash.

This one was done in a Raiders theme for a friend

Closeup of left side

My own dash and window moulding done in original colors

  claybill said:

look up past woodgrain threads and posts...very interesting.

many folks claim to know how it was done..some even say 'by-hand' can you believe it!!?

but no one really has the answer....i contend that it was applied somehow

with paint BEFORE stamping.!

bill

[47heaven]

  David Maxwell said:

...because they do it. The process was a roll-on which I myself do. There were some dashes stamped after graining such as the Hudson. This is due to their "simple" dash pattern. The complex nature of the mopar dashes with many curves and linear grain would make that impossible. The roll on process is not easy, but when mastered generates the EXACT pattern on the original dash.

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That's the ticket, David. Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. Now, that gray woodgrain would look sharp with my interior, but the thought of taking that dash out again...arrrrrgh!