Steve:
Just a thought that occurs to me reading your message below - if your wood is 3/4" thick you may encounter some problems mounting guages, switches etc. - the threads and bezels (or whatever they are called) or clamps which hold them in place may not be deep enough to handle 3/4" wood unless you counter sink larger holes on the rear face to accommodate. Remember original dashboards are just sheet metal - pretty thin. Don't have a dash at hand to check this out but maybe you should have a look before you fire up the hole-saw?
Cheers, Barrie.
At 09:10 04/19/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi People,
>
>Today was one of those days when it does not show that you got anything
>done at all, but actually a problem was solved (and another created).
>
>Since tearing this thing apart, I have been searching for a nice wood
>dashboard. The only one I found was a laminate on marine plywood for
>over $300. Well, that may be OK, but not exactly what I wanted. Today
>I went off to the big smoke and searched for a chunk of nice wood to
>build my own custom dashboard. I managed to come up with a very pretty
>piece of 9" x 5' x 3/4" deep reddish bloodwood, from Africa or Brazil I
>think. Thus I will end up with a pretty wooden dash for about $70.00
>and probably one to two days added to the project.
>
>Tomorrow, back to the carpet and upholstery work.
>
>Have a nice weekend folks,
>Steve VR
>glblitnpwr(at)nidlink.com
>
>
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