Flat black Krylon is the best refresher for woodgrain
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| Author: | Jeb [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:27 pm ] |
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Is there a way to refresh the woodgrain on the Gauge Cluster of my Duster. Some sort of stain that will do away with the faded look. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:35 pm ] |
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Woodgrain Con-Tact material (the self-adhesive stuff used to line shelves and suchlike, see Here) |
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| Author: | Jeb [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:41 pm ] |
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How well does that stuff hold up to UV radiation? See, heres my problem. I spruced up my dash with the factory woodgrain pieces that go on the glovebox and rest of the dash. This stuff is almost new. But my instrument panel is faded and doesn't match the other pieces that I just put in there. |
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| Author: | argentina-slantsixer [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:09 pm ] |
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my recipe is carefully copying a pattern at a time and then I cut it out and do the neccesary amount of carving outta nice real expensive woods sheet that I use for other crafts. then I cover it either in old shellac recipe or modern poliurethane UV protective laquer (satin finish, please) |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:10 pm ] |
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Quote: How well does that stuff hold up to UV radiation?
Pretty well, all told, it's very similar to the stuff originally applied, and it took 3 decades for that to wear out!
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| Author: | '74 Sport [ Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:00 pm ] |
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The woodgrain effect on my son's '74 Dart Sport is not a vinyl applique, but rather has "grain" molded into the plastic and is painted to look like wood. There is a company in Ft. Worth, TX that restores instrument panels, including repainting the wood grain. http://www.mrgusa.com Jerry |
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| Author: | GuyLR [ Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:44 am ] |
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Flat black Krylon is the best refresher for woodgrain
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:21 pm ] |
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I found a complete woodgrain restoration package for your '74 Here. |
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| Author: | Jeb [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:35 pm ] |
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Yeah, I saw that too. Off the topic a little bit, How did you use the word "here" to keep from typing out a whole link. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:45 pm ] |
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You cannot avoid typing-out the whole link, what proper linking does is keep the entry nice and tidy so you don't have lengthy URLs (especially eBay's ridiculously long ones) running off the RH side of the page. Also makes it a lot far easier to read if you're going to link to something in the middle of a sentence or paragraph. How to do it? Like this: Pictures of my '62 Lancer are on [url=http://u225.torque.net/cars/62Lancer/62Lancer.html]this page right here[/url]. |
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| Author: | Jeb [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:58 pm ] |
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Thanks Dan, I've got it now. |
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| Author: | KBB_of_TMC [ Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | woodgrain |
On the Tidewater Mopar Club's giveaway '75 Duster (the drawing is this Sunday! "http://www.tidewatermoparclub.com/Giveaway/2004/2004.html"), the stock dash's woodgrain paint was in rough shape and scratched up. I looked at many things, tried a few, and ended up using flat brown spray paint, rust red primer, & a touch of flat black to try to match the factory pattern - I'd recommend a couple of extra different brown shades for blending. The hard part was keeping it from becoming too uniform, which made it not look quite kosher. I varied amount, distance, angle, and used very thin coats and just kept at it until it looked right. |
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