Dateline – 11/09/2013 – This weekend I focused on the
dash. My buddy Matt, who I bought the
car from and who has helped me with all the woodwork on the project (see post http://www.leapingv8s.blogspot.com/2011/12/recaping-summer-and-new-work.html)
invited me over on Saturday and so we got a chance to do more work on the
dash. It’s been almost a year since I’ve
worked on the wood and it is getting time to start finishing things up. I had a bit of a shock a couple of months ago
when I pulled the pieces out and found that a rag covered in silicone tire
dressing had been sitting on the unfinished center wood piece! I thought the piece was ruined. But fortunately, we were able to run it
through the sander and remove all the silicone except for a spot about the size
of a pencil eraser in the upper left corner.
I’m very pleased about that!
Another thing we worked on was adding more wood to that
center piece so that the wood wraps around the center console. At the time we did the initial woodwork, I
wasn’t sure how all the pieces would fit together. Now that I have everything fitted, I found
that I needed more wood added to the center piece so that it wraps down the
sides of the console. Matt came up with
the idea of shaping a piece of plywood to fit and then gluing that to the
center piece. Once dry, a piece of veneer
would be glued to that. After sanding,
filling and finishing, there may be a small seam, but it will still look good. We got as far as gluing the plywood to the
center piece but ran out of time to glue the veneer. I’ll do that later.
