Re: Has anyone made door panels themselves?

Posted by HH56 On 2011/6/8 19:29:06

There should be an upholstery supply store in your area

Wish I had such luck. If you know a friendly auto upholster, he can get the door panel or water resistant cardboard for you perhaps for a small fee. Unless you have an automotive supplier who sells retail in your area, I think you will be out of luck with regular upholstery supply stores. Most seem to be wholesale only--others deal in furniture stuff and their cardboard is different-- but you live in a big city so your choices may be better than mine.

The cardboard or panelboard is available from a couple of internet places but oversized freight costs are about 3 times as much as the board unless you order a bunch. I don't know what years used cardboard. Postwar, they all seem to be a Masonite like material. If I could have found a thin Masonite or hardboard at the time, would have used it on mine but the almost 1/4 in stocked locally was too thick so fiberboard it was. I've been using panelboard I got from an upholstery shop on a glovebox project. It also is annoying to cut--too thick for a knife to easily do so punches and fine toothed blade jigsaw again.