Woodgraining the 68C

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mrraford

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does anybody out there have a good photo of what the original woodgraining on a Slant windshield Cabriolet? I don't know if the car club magazine edition that was dedicated to the 68C had a good photo but I would appreciate hearing from anybody that could help with an example. thanks
 
Unless I'm wrong, that gets the same walnut woodgraining as my A400. I don't have a pic but the only way to do it right is with a roller kit. I recommend grain-it technologies. I don't have their number but you can google it. It's simple to do with the right tools from them. You can do the mahogany grains with home made tools but I just don't see a way to do it right on the walnut without the roller and ink plate. It's how it was done originally in the factory.
 
Best I can describe it, it kind of looks like light brown and dark brown zebra stripes
 
At a show this past summer I looked at about 7 that had woodgrain, no two were alike either in color or grain (I realize the graining might be different).

FWIW Paul in CT
 
Unfortunately there is a MAJOR error in the Standards and it's my fault as I overlooked it for years! The wood grain trim in the 68-C was plate grain mahogany so the dash rail was the same as used in the 160-B Town Sedan and 160-C Deluxe Fordor as well as the Victoria.
 
Here is a photo of the backside of a door window garnish molding from my 68C.

What is amazing is how nice this is and how the top side is all surface rust with some light pitting.

Towards the right side you can see a dark 'stripe' of the woodgrain. That was probably the seam of the rolling process where they picked up some more woodgrain on the roller.
 

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Here is my coupes dash using grain it's roller and plate.
 

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Thanks to all who commented. Based upon Kevin's photo and Marco's comments it appears that the Grain-It Tech pattern that fits my application the best is Stipple Mahogany. I'm going to try to use the Grain-It process to do my dash rail.
 
From what I have been told, the walnut woodgraining shown in Don Turley's post is accomplished by using an air brush technique. We presently have that on our 160B Town Sedan, but also intend on using the same pattern and technique on one of our other Fordors, even though we know it is wrong for the year and model. We just like it that way !!
 
This is the mahogany dash panel from David Moores unrestored Victoria.
 
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If you are going to do it yourself a couple of tips. Get the oil based ink and plate. It goes on so much better than the water base. Get the biggest roller you can. On the dash the bigger the roller the better.
Best of luck.

mrraford said:
Thanks to all who commented. Based upon Kevin's photo and Marco's comments it appears that the Grain-It Tech pattern that fits my application the best is Stipple Mahogany. I'm going to try to use the Grain-It process to do my dash rail.
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I'm going to do some graining, not to try for original look necessarily. When Bob Ross paints clouds he creates the "impression" or "illusion" of clouds, like, whatever you paint, somewhere in the world there's a cloud that looks like THAT one! The same probably applies to wood grains.
I once "thought" about doin' all the belt mouldings on my black coupe in woodgrain, also "thought" about doin' the black dash rail with a silvery grey grain and call it "BLACK EBONY." Wood grain doesn't HAVE to look REAL, 'Cause we all know it's FAKE!
Wonder if anyone ever carved a REAL wood dash rail? BILL W.
 
heres an original dash panel
tom
 

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