[Zmagnette] Refinishing dash (facia!) Types of wood it is made out of?

[Edward Brorein]

Hi John, 
Likewise, thanks for the inputs. I did refinish my window sill wood as well. I believe they were indeed solid mahogany. But in addition they also got burl walnut veneer applied on their faces, and they were also mirrored by applying the veneer flipped over for the opposite sides no less! The P.O. had refinished them without any walnut veneer so I re-veneered and refinished them. This makes me ask however, if any Magnettes had the window sills finished in anything other than with the walnut burl?  
Regards, Ed


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From: John Park <jpark at bmts.com>
To: 'Edward Brorein' <edbro03 at yahoo.com>; 'List for the Z Magnette Group - North America' <zmagnette at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Zmagnette] Refinishing dash (facia!) Types of wood it is made out of?



Hi Ed,
            I was told by Don Hayter and also Steve Young that the dash wood is African Ribbonstripe Mahogany and the matching window sills (like RR but MG didn’t save a piece in case you got wrecked), glove box and speedo surround were burled or burr or birr walnut.
            Regards,
            John
 
From:zmagnette-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:zmagnette-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Edward Brorein
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 6:17 PM
To: List for the Z Magnette Group - North America
Subject: [Zmagnette] Refinishing dash (facia!) Types of wood it is made out of?
 
Hi all, I've been having a lot of fun restoring my dash. It's been a real education to say the least! After a lot of small repairs required, inflicted by the PO attempting to restore it (it would have been a lot less work if it had never been touched). I've gotten all the veneered parts re-veneered with the appropriate veneers and they are looking really nice. I'm now working on the dash top which is a solid piece of wood. I've gotten it all stripped and sanded smooth. I need to do some work on the cowl or binnacle(?) that sits over the speedometer, which got me investigating what kind of wood this thing was really made out of. I know its been said it is mahogany, but really studying this over, doing some research, and matching it up to a lot of samples of other woods I have, its looking like a dead ringer for walnut actually, and not a very good match for mahogany. Could it be the factory that made the wood dash assemblies possibly use different wood
 at different periods when making them??? Thanks, Ed
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