Dave Smith
11-13-2003, 3:09 PM
<p>Wednesday I get this knock on the door and it was the driver of a 1926 Ford hot rod. He wanted to know if I could do some more wood work for him. I was hopping he didn’t have any problems with my work. He didn’t and wanted me to do some work on a truck he was having rebuilt.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford1.jpg"></p>
<p>I made the running boards out of purple heart. The old ones were made from plywood and not very well made IMHO. One running board has a short crack at one end but it didn’t look like a glue joint failure. The painters were impressed with the boards and they took the finish beautifully.<p>
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford2.jpg"></p>
<p>The owner provided some birdseye veneer he had purchased and wanted it applied to a dash board. I had to make a new dash out of plywood. The whole task was not that big of a deal for me but it turned out excellent. He says he gets lots of complements on the dash. It is finished with BLO and several coats of wipe on gloss polyurethane.<p>
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford4.jpg"></p>
<p>A close up view of the dash. These pictures don’t show the depth of the figure.<p>
Thanks for viewing.
Dave Smith
My woodworking rolls around in Longview, WA.
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford1.jpg"></p>
<p>I made the running boards out of purple heart. The old ones were made from plywood and not very well made IMHO. One running board has a short crack at one end but it didn’t look like a glue joint failure. The painters were impressed with the boards and they took the finish beautifully.<p>
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford2.jpg"></p>
<p>The owner provided some birdseye veneer he had purchased and wanted it applied to a dash board. I had to make a new dash out of plywood. The whole task was not that big of a deal for me but it turned out excellent. He says he gets lots of complements on the dash. It is finished with BLO and several coats of wipe on gloss polyurethane.<p>
<p><img src="http://www.woodnheart.com/wc/26ford4.jpg"></p>
<p>A close up view of the dash. These pictures don’t show the depth of the figure.<p>
Thanks for viewing.
Dave Smith
My woodworking rolls around in Longview, WA.