pics of your woodgraining....wanted.

[Uncle-Pekka]

Don,

Thanks for the tip.

Gregg,

Nice original preserved dash, indeed. I would myself prefer an original aged woodgrain to restored, but as said, in my car there is no choice anymore after the parts were painted by some amateur sometimes back in 70's-80's....

The pattern in Plymouth seems to be different from Dodge, though.

[greg g]

You may want to see if there are any companies in your area doing a image transfer process. It uses a film suspended in fluid basically water and some binding agent.

I pieces are put on a rack and submerged, then the image film is floated on top of the fluid, then the pieces are lifted through the image bearing fluid, transfering the image to the pieces. When they are dry, they then sprayed with a UV resistant clear coat.

My friend has ome piece in his mini done in their standerd burl pattern. It looks grat and has held up well over 4 years. It is said that they can do any image that can be digitalized but I would imagine the minimums would be steeply priced. His was a stock pattern and they charged him 75 cents a square inch for the process.

Here is one company the provides the films in woodgrain and other patterns

http://www.watertransferprinting.com/index.php?option=com_expose&album=11&Itemid=75

and another

http://www.hydro-dip.com/

[Cpt.Fred]

original look on my 40, will not change a thing:)

...except cleaning and replacing some switches.

[Uncle-Pekka]

Congratulations Captain!

I agree with you 101% - If the interior in my car would be as good condition original as your '40 I would not do anything either, exept bless my luck every day having got awesome car...

Pekka

[P-12 Tommy]

Hey Bill, Here's a couple of the P-12 dash.

Tom

[Uncle-Pekka]

As I mentioned earlier, the wood grained panels of my D24 have been painted over some time in 1980's by previous owner.

Now that I got the body painted, I finally decided to try to also do the woodgraining by myself.

I made it as simple as possible using common materials and tools.

1. mixed a base coat enamel to match the original (sample on back side of original panel, intact factory base coat)

2. someone told to do the black pinpoint marks by toothpick. I sprayed by almost dried out rattle can. Tiny black spots pattern achieved.

3. applied white spirit based mahogany stain by brush. Let it dry for a while and grained it by dry brush. Straight line pattern.

4. light coat of acrylic clear coat

5. Another go by mahogany stain. This time lightly twisted pattern.

[Uncle-Pekka]

Seem to have forgot this thread...

However, here are some photos shot back in September while I laid clear coat on the woodgraining.

[frankieflathead]

I agree, Clay. Here's my D24 and thumbnails of few more from the web.....

Edited January 5, 2013 by frankieflathead

[frankieflathead]

And a few more, just because I think they're gorgeous. Hope I'm not overdoing it, guys.

[BobT-47P15]

Nice work, fellows.

[frankieflathead]

...that were OK, but I've since redone some stuff. I can't believe I haven't taken any pics lately. Just too busy.

And in this one I used Photoshop for a retro scene

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/bojeta/47%20Plymouth%20Restoration/packageshelf25.jpg

Neat "street scene", David. Did you actually redo the woodgraining on your dash yourself?

[james curl]

Yes he did and documented it here on this site, he even built himself a special shop in his back yard to do it in. If you do a search you should find his thread where he did it.

[frankieflathead]

Thanx, James. That's some very impressive work.

[james curl]

At one time David was considering going commercial doing wood grain for people, do not know what happened as he has not posted here in several years if memory serves me right. At that time he was teaching graphics at a local college.

[blucarsdn]

It would appear that I have joined this tread a little late... I believe the original question posed was regarding wood graining on the dashes of open cars..

My '39 Plym conv cpe originally had a painted dash and window sills in a maroon color.. The original exterior color of the car was black..

I thought the maroon interior color was very drab... The wood grained interiors looked much classier.. I opted to wood grain my dash and sills in a pattern/color similar to the closed car P8's.

Initially, several people in the POC were very unhappy with my choice, as time went bye and the whole car came together, the general conscience has been that I did good... I have changed the car from being a "LOWLY PLYMOUTH", Chrysler peoples terminology for the Plymouth's, into a classic in it's own right... Bill

[Plymouthy Adams]

appears to many mods to this car..are the exterior handles shaved or just off the car in those shots..I see a modern inside handle...

[Uncle-Pekka]

I agree with Tim, very much modernized interior.

The steering column in whole appears to be a 80's car's.

Is your convertible sub-framed, Bill?

[blucarsdn]

To as briefly as possible answer the questions... The exterior of my car is as close to stock as humanly possible.. The original door handles were retained, however the doors have remote power latches.. The interior latches shown in the pix are temporary.. The dash was keep as stock as possible, after market gauges were used and the lower apron on the dash was increased in size to accommodate the AC vents.. A late model column was used because I wanted tilt and I wanted a turn switch that had all of the switches for lights, wipers, cruise, etc., all on the column in lieu of under/on the dash..

The chassis is a Fatman, disk, pinion, etc.. Bill