Wood grain

[31rpu]

Does anyone have the formula or color for the base coat for wood grain?

[Old182]

I'm not sure this will help, but here goes: When my wife did our coupe, we went according to an article by Bill Reeder in the second volume of How To Restore Your Model A. She used DuPont Lucite acrylic lacquer Russett 12, Code: 68CN (a GM color). The mixture (as per the now dried out can) is, in parts:
453 FER yellow (HS)............. 1.0
406 Black (HS)....................14.0
401 White..........................33.5
467 Flat base......................56.5
4528 Flat Compound............109.5
428 Red Oxide....................227.0
465 Binder.........................445.0
Unfortunatley, this was done 22 years ago and I don't know if you can cross reference these numbers with a modern formulation. FWIW, the work came out exceptionally well and still gets comments today. Maybe someone can give you more up to date information; if not, this may be of some use. Good luck.

[Jim Parker Toronto]

You should do a search on this site. I think it was just a couple of days ago it was covered extensively.....

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

While I am assuming you are speaking of Mahogany base, there are two other bases that I use for the luggage rack slats and the Conv. Sedan. Which one are you wanting to do?

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[mot]

I tend to agree with Vince
this is an original dash rail that has never been altered and has all its wood grain intact
the back is painted black,not mahogany
the wood grain is brown ,not black
i have several more trim pieces that are painted exactly the same way

i have also have mahogany based trim pieces with black graining
I"m wondering if the different Builders,like Briggs and Murray may have used different methods?
does anyone else have some good original examples of woodgraining front and back?
tom

[Kevin in NJ]

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Here is a picture of the backside of my 68C door window garnish. This picture was taken under an Ott light with flash on.

You can see the base color for the whole part was the red. The grain color is harder for me to determine as I am not the best with colors. To some extent it appears like a black that is so thin it takes on the red base color. Since I am not sure what a proper russet brown is supposed to look like I can not say if it is russet brown.

A little aside. You can see the 1/4" overlap from the rolled on grain. On one garnish it is 7" from the top and the other it is 9.5" from the top.

The 68C windshield header part was also completely painted in the red base. No wood grain area was left intact, only paint where it was clamped between other parts.

[Bick in New Zealand]

Hi Mot

In your pictures it looks like the grain is running vertically, do you have a wider shot of the dash panel?

[31rpu]

Brent, I'm graining the interior trim on a 68B .