How To Install Veneer On Auto Dash And Door Panels

One of the most difficult good condition used car parts to find or create for a classic car restoration is the interior wood veneer.

How to install veneer on auto dash and door panels.

Leave it until it is touch dry 5 minutes. Insert cardboard wedges between your coverlay dash cover and your windshield to create pressure on the dash cover edge against the window. The nature of this flexible bond won t withstand the constant change of conditions to which it will be exposed. Tape the veneer to your wood and place a sheet of polythene on each side of your newly veneered trim.

This is just to prevent sticking it. Wood veneer in your classic car needs to look the part or the entire interior is a let down. The use of burl and other hardwood veneer as interior automobile trim has always signaled both elegance and luxury. For each door panel i use 1 8 thick hdpe plastic and self.

Apply a thin even coat of evostick to the veneer and the plywood. The polythene stops the wood sticking and the polystyrene evens out the pressure of the clamps. We go into detail on showing using a vacuum bag as well as softening the veneer. Leave for 24 hours.

The veneer will contract and expand on an ongoing basis which will stress the glue bond to the point of certain early failure. As you may have seen in our how to install videos manufactured stone veneer installation is a simple process in fact anyone with basic carpentry skills can unpack the box and attach genstone faux stone panels to a wall. In this video i make some sick cheap diy door panels for the drift car. Pretty easy to make and looks so much cleaner than bare door s.

4 center the selected pattern section over the substrate panel and apply the contact cement following the manufacturer s instructions to both the veneer and the substrate. You can also add phone books to weigh down the large middle surface of the dash cover. That may be about to change as our favorite man with the spanners edd china shows us. Place your template over the desired section of veneer and cut out that portion leaving approximately one half inch or 1 27 centimeters 0 5 in of excess on each side.

At that time the process involved was both very expensive and labor. Add three lengths of 1cm thick polystyrene per side then use six g clamps to seal the sandwich between two pieces of chipboard. In some cases your may need to install an optional instrument panel trim cover. As is true with many diy projects the details are what separate a botched project and a successful one.

Auto interior wood dashboards plywood and veneer applications. Veneering a raised panel door with a vacuum press.