wood dashboard

Joop

Member
Does anyone know where you can buy the wood and is this expensive to let it make?
 

Attachments

  • $_85.jpg
    $_85.jpg
    40.1 KB · Views: 436
Make it yourself. Use the original as a template. Veneer on aluminium is actually how the very earliest P6s we're trimmed. It's not hard, just time consuming. You need epoxy glue (a lot of it) and about 8 coats of varnish rubbed back with 400 every two coats and finished with 1200 and t-cut. I used american walnut and it was about £20.

I'm actually doing this myself because I'm fitted and S2 instrument panel in an S1 and the indian rosewood doesn't look nice.

I personally wouldn't do any more than is already there. It's only an opinion but that is a bit "too much of a good thing". Open grained wood is a lot easier to work than burr finishes and looks more like the original.
 
Just thinking out loud
Why not use some of that 3m burl walnut-look vinyl wrap that is uv and colour stable .
Lots easier to use around the gauges and once its behind the plastic cover - hey looks like the real McCoy.
Then if you don't like what you've done - peel it off.
Just thinking .
Gerald
 
As a boy I remember this sort of thing being called "Formica". So try googling Formica.... You'll arrive at http://www.formica.com/en/uk Not merely are all the original P6 "woods" still available, but also real wood veneers not to mention all sorts of other interesting and exciting finishes....

Chris
 
chrisyork said:
As a boy I remember this sort of thing being called "Formica". So try googling Formica.... You'll arrive at http://www.formica.com/en/uk Not merely are all the original P6 "woods" still available, but also real wood veneers not to mention all sorts of other interesting and exciting finishes....

Chris

How about a marble dash . . . . . . . . or maybe not?

John
 
You don't have the luxury of a thick plywood base in a P6. The "wood" is Formica about 1.7mm thick.

It's not actually very difficult but getting a good finish takes FOREVER.
 
Back
Top