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Number: 1918
From: "jdawg <jdawg@e...>" <jdawg@e...>
Date: Mon Jan 20, 2003  9:43 pm
Subject: Re: Teak dash and headlight covers

Body:
5 words "GOTTA HAVE THAT REAL WOOD!" yeah baby!!
had all mine remade in a dark mahogany for $100 by the local schoool
wood shop teacher. most schools, prisons, or veterans
administration centers offer cheap upolstry and carpendery(i got all
my front porch furniture redone for $7 plus the material i supplied,
at the prison)
jdawg

--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, ascmclaren1986 <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> I made a new wood kit 3 years ago using zebra wood laminate over
a
> thin formica base ( I think it is zebra wood not teak ). I used 2
> part epoxy to bond them and put them in a press. Then I used the
old
> ones for a template cut out, and a clear finnish. Since then I
found
> the zebra wood on formica already made. A good cabnet supplier can
> get a sheet 4'x8' for about $250.00. So it is still cheaper and
> easier to get the kit from Hank. (unless you have more than 3
early
> mclarens).
> WAYNE