32 Roadster on BAT

The sticker on my 47 Chevy
 

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The fifty year old paint on my '51 is starting to show it's age. The nicks, scratches, and "rub-through's" are starting to show, and it's lost a bit of it's gloss in some areas. It sounds like it's got a "nice patina", ehh?

Well, I hate it and can't wait to get it painted!
 
This is all quite timely as I am in the process of building eleven interior doors for a Seattle design outfit. Here's a sample I made last week.
 

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No, it's a paint sample on some 100 year old scraps of what I'm building the doors from. I need to figure out how rough they want the wood before I can assemble parts. I have built a couple hundred doors along these lines. All for Seattle architects and design firms. Never a paint job quite this shabby yet. This is more typical of my doors. The architect uses this photo on their web site as the intro to this project. After she saw this photo on the wall of the architecture firm, a gal named Stephanie Meyer wanted 27 large doors for her carraige house. She apparently wrote some books about werewolves and vampires in Forks Wa. Called Twilight series. There were movies made too. Anyway I'm glad she liked them. I had 4 kids to feed.
 

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GB SISSON said:
No, it's a paint sample on some 100 year old scraps of what I'm building the doors from. I need to figure out how rough they want the wood before I can assemble parts. I have built a couple hundred doors along these lines. All for Seattle architects and design firms. Never a paint job quite this shabby yet. This is more typical of my doors. The architect uses this photo on their web site as the intro to this project. After she saw this photo on the wall of the architecture firm, a gal named Stephanie Meyer wanted 27 large doors for her carraige house. She apparently wrote some books about werewolves and vampires in Forks Wa. Called Twilight series. There were movies made too. Anyway I'm glad she liked them. I had 4 kids to feed.
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Thanks Pete, that photo makes me look a little less flakey. The whole point of me posting the cracked paint sample was in response to the cracked paint on the '32, and I was meaning something like, some people pay extra for cracks. Anyway, let's get back to the '32 roadster.
 
GB SISSON said:
Thanks Pete, that photo makes me look a little less flakey. The whole point of me posting the cracked paint sample was in response to the cracked paint on the '32, and I was meaning something like, some people pay extra for cracks. Anyway, let's get back to the '32 roadster.
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I knew a guy that removed all the architectural "goodies", doors as well, from OLD homes that were to be demolished.
He took all the stuff to local flea markets and sold hardly a piece here and there. Then he figured out what he needed to do. Instead of the nice, but old varnish, he'd roughly paint them, start them on fire for a short time, extinguish the fire. Crinkled paint sold VERY well at the flea markets for much more money.
I remember watching him do this and thought he was insane. That is, until i witnessed him selling out at the next market.
 
GB SISSON said:
No, it's a paint sample on some 100 year old scraps of what I'm building the doors from. I need to figure out how rough they want the wood before I can assemble parts. I have built a couple hundred doors along these lines. All for Seattle architects and design firms. Never a paint job quite this shabby yet. This is more typical of my doors. The architect uses this photo on their web site as the intro to this project. After she saw this photo on the wall of the architecture firm, a gal named Stephanie Meyer wanted 27 large doors for her carraige house. She apparently wrote some books about werewolves and vampires in Forks Wa. Called Twilight series. There were movies made too. Anyway I'm glad she liked them. I had 4 kids to feed.
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These are very similar to the fourteen I'd built for our stable just two years ago.
I used white oak but the design is nearly the same.
Mine slide vs. being hinged and the top "half" is railed vs. solid.

I never had four kids but with eleven horses to feed, well, I understand why a man does what he has to do...
 
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A Brookville currently on Ebay for $60k and the auction has not ended yet. I believe the original one that started this thread was just good timing for the buyer.
 
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