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Old Wood grain comparison with new
I thought some of you Cheyenne Super guys would find this interesting.
Here's some pictures for comparison. The new bezel has the old 3m di-noc woodgrain on it. Before it started being made in Taiwan or China. There are two samples of the new taiwanese woodgrain in the photos. One is sample # wg254 and one is # 430. The old di-noc # that Gm used is 254. It's interesting to note that GM used some kind of adhesive that seemed to fill the pebbling of the bezel face in order to get a smooth fiish and to adhere the di-noc to it. If nothing else, it's something to fuel discussion. ![]() |
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
A few more.
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
I have a roll and a piece of DiNoc in the tube, with GM part numbers on the tube. I haven't looked at it to see what those numbers are. It was originally used for the wood grain on the outside of some early-mid 70's vehicles. Do you think that my DiNoc is the right stuff?
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
GM laminated a thin piece of plastic onto the face.
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
Yep, the original woodgrain is a thin plastic overlay instead of just di-noc. My NOS cheyenne super woodgrain bezel was made in 1988 and matches better with the colors and graining on 430 than 254. They were still making the orignal Di-noc back then. The adhesive you see on your original bezel is a contact cement to glue the plastic that is the woodgrain on the original to the plastic bezel. Trevor
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
Interesting bit of detective work. After all this time, the best we've got is still the 40 year old method.
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Re: Old Wood grain comparison with new
Yeah,it`s photo-etched like the door panels on aluminum.The only vinyl was exterior woodgrain.I`m not familiar with di-Noc,never heard of it until now.Is that the mylar sticker name or what?What are these numbers for,a specific pattern,like all cars only use one of 3 or so patterns?
I`m having a guy in Ohio do grain paint on my stuff.Not original,prolly simulated black walnut or something different.I`m giving him an odd insert I have to do for a display at shows. If I still had my other two K/20s one would have gotten real wood veneer.Who knows,I may still do that.But,this guys grain paint is awesome and makes me want to go that way now.I guess I could have him mimmick the N.O.S. ones but I want something a tad different.
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