Woodgraining

Here`s my first "real world" try in woodgraining I did ob the dash board and the window frames

 

That's a damn nice job there! There is money to be made doing this.

 

Yeah, it was a pain in the a.... I´m not sure if I would do that again - even for money

 

That looks great. I love a woodgrained dash.

I'd like to try it at some point. Below is fresh clear over my stock '38 dash.

JH

 

What method did you use ?
And why is the grain vertical ?

Looks pretty good to me.

 

I used to have a customer who came into my Kwal Howells store in downtown Denver, who's old job was woodgraining air conditioner units sold from a small factory in NYC, that supplied them to Macy's in the 40's and 50's.
His work was really good....

THIS work is kick***!!!

 

Yeah, vertical grain....different? I as well wood grain, went to school in South Beach Miami for it. My brushes were stolen out of my truck years ago, sure wish I had them as I love doing it. At least 2 grand worth of brushes, I'm sure they were just thrown in the gutter. Anyway, love to here your method, acrylic, oil, brushes? Looks nice!

 

It´s vertical cause I think it looks better and different - just a mater of taste.

I used the tools and method from here: http://woodgraining.com

Frank

 

Neat looking job you did... and surfing through woodgraining.com website looks like they have some neat "shortcut" tools.

 

Damn, Mel, you keep suriprising me. anything you haven't tried yet?

Great work. I love woodgraining. Thanks for the link!
Mike

 

Why not use real wood? I guess it would be more difficult to do, but I don't really see the appeal of fake wood.

 

Cause the factory did it so.
Cause I think it looks cool and is period correct
Cause I can´t afford to pay somebody to copy my Chevy dash board in wood.

 

No offense. It looks like you know how to do what you are doing. Is that airbrushed or pressure-sensitve vinyl?

 

It´s much like the factory original process.
You got an etched plate with the grain on it, covert with paint.
By roling over it you transfer the pattern on soft rubber roll.
The you roll the pattern on the parts.

Watch the videos on that site, they show the method.

http://woodgraining.com/MOVIES/index.html

 

Jack of all trades, master of none!

A hhh, just checked out the site briefly. No offense to you, as I cheat at many things I try and dabble with...and your dash looks ***s! But, we had to hand paint everything, if we mentioned the roller technique, we were thrown out of the cl*** for about an hour. My teacher was a proper Englishmen, and he would hear of no such thing. Hahahaaaa. I could care less. Dash looks sick bro...keep it up!

 

He's on here as JDee. He does excellent work and is very helpful.

 

That woodgrain looks very nice.

Have you seen where people are now recreating woodgrain appearance and texture on aluminum, steel and even MDF with powder coating. The two powders are applied seprately and rolled to get the woodgrain pattern. It even has the texture of woodgrain as you can feel the raised second layer of powder.

 

I made this dash out of foam as I did'nt have a dash. I can shape metal as well...but it just did'nt warrent it. My buddy Joe that works with me did the fibergl***...F that! I wanted to woodgrain it if I ran a wooden wheel...but we opted for white. Now you got me wishing I wood grained it.

I'm gonna price out brushes again and see what the damage is...thanks for the cool post!

 

Tudorjeff, see if you can find a link to that...sounds cool.

 

Here in Germany there is a company that uses a kind of water decal process (sprayed over with a clear coat later). They have everything from Maple to Carbon fibre. Looks great but expensive and way too perfect form my vintage taste.

Frank

 

looks really good !!.........as far as vertical goes, lots of late 40's GM stuff was done that way .

 

looks nice man. good job. I would like to see the chevy that dash bolts on to. when you can..on another post even

 

here ya go

 

Yes,I have a kit and plates from Woodgraining.com
That's the method the factories used to use in production.

Works very well,going to use it for 'gator skin flames pretty soon.

 

My buddy Brenden from "Stubby's Airbrush and Graphics" in the Ft Worth area recently had a late 40's Willy's that he was doing a paint job on. The customer saw a test panel at his shop that had some airbrushed wood grain on it and asked Brenden to paint wood panels on the Willys. Damn nice job and completely freehand....

 

Have you priced large/thick pieces of hardwood lately ?
Good luck finding a solid piece big enough to make a dash that big.

Faux woodgrain gives you your choice of grain patterns,direction,
and colors,without worrying about cracking and movement.Wood dash boards on English sports cars need to be refinished regularly,
UV destroys the top surface of the wood and the varnish peels.

 

Nice..will look forward to the updates and first time it sees the road once complete. Thanks for answering my request.

 

Wow nice job, thats probably one of the hardest ones to do.
The Nash is a tough one too.
This video shows a Nash that was rough to do.
Its at the end. big file.... after the 34 ford burn out
and 36 Hudson electronic 3 on the tree...
Jdee
Video link
http://rbicycle.iserver.net/photos/video/34ford/

 

Hey Frank, the dashboard looks killer ! Great job,buddy !
Can´t wait to see the finished car !

 

Stovebolt, you need a vacation.... right! So when you come to OZ let me know....... and ahhh... bring your brush.