Re: Escutcheons
Posted by Joe Santana On 2010/10/31 11:38:41
Tom
Several years ago, Jim Hollingsworth gave me this name:
SM Troosh (805) 528-4594 1831 8th St,Los Osos, CA 93402-2709
It seems to me he does this. He is a one-off, a character, but very nice guy. I just couldn't afford to have him do my entire 40 dash in the marbleized brown plastic. I vaguely remember that he is a specialist and does Pebble Beach cars. If you call him, I'd be very interested in what transpires.
Plastic was "in", but not great. Probably not UV resistant, etc. All that remained of mine, in a convertible, was the gear shift knob (oiled daily from my shifting), vent knob, and a couple of shaded control knobs. The dash plastic itself just corroded away and did the escutcheons. I switched over to a sort of caramel color.
David E Miller's (Orange, CA) 1940 Darrin 2-dr conv, featured in Packards International magazine Winter 2005, has mottled plastic knobs, but not the same as Packard produced then. Possibly Darrin designed and made their own, as they did with several items on those customs. It is a beautiful burled walnut look.
It made me recall as kids we used to float drops of different colors of enamel paint on water in a jar or can. You can create a pretty interesting design. Then, with the paint forming a wet skin on the top of the water, you dip something dead center straight down. The skin coats the item and voila! your item has a beautiful marbleized finish when you withdraw it.
Maybe some enterprising person could figure out how to do whole dashboards that way. And with the clear coated plastic paints, maybe other parts could be made that way too, but the primer may melt the plastic. Worth an experiment maybe.
Joe
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Several years ago, Jim Hollingsworth gave me this name:
SM Troosh (805) 528-4594 1831 8th St,Los Osos, CA 93402-2709
It seems to me he does this. He is a one-off, a character, but very nice guy. I just couldn't afford to have him do my entire 40 dash in the marbleized brown plastic. I vaguely remember that he is a specialist and does Pebble Beach cars. If you call him, I'd be very interested in what transpires.
Plastic was "in", but not great. Probably not UV resistant, etc. All that remained of mine, in a convertible, was the gear shift knob (oiled daily from my shifting), vent knob, and a couple of shaded control knobs. The dash plastic itself just corroded away and did the escutcheons. I switched over to a sort of caramel color.
David E Miller's (Orange, CA) 1940 Darrin 2-dr conv, featured in Packards International magazine Winter 2005, has mottled plastic knobs, but not the same as Packard produced then. Possibly Darrin designed and made their own, as they did with several items on those customs. It is a beautiful burled walnut look.
It made me recall as kids we used to float drops of different colors of enamel paint on water in a jar or can. You can create a pretty interesting design. Then, with the paint forming a wet skin on the top of the water, you dip something dead center straight down. The skin coats the item and voila! your item has a beautiful marbleized finish when you withdraw it.
Maybe some enterprising person could figure out how to do whole dashboards that way. And with the clear coated plastic paints, maybe other parts could be made that way too, but the primer may melt the plastic. Worth an experiment maybe.
Joe
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