What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter

[OregonNed]

Originally Posted by 67C10Step

Ned,
What wood is that veneer? The glove box lid looks book matched. Nice.

Thank you. It is quarter sawn red oak - matching the wood in the bed in both stain and finish. Also the ashtray face, and a radio delete I made...

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by OregonNed

Thank you. It is quarter sawn red oak - matching the wood in the bed in both stain and finish. Also the ashtray face, and a radio delete I made...

I was thinking quarter-sawn white oak. Either way, that is one beautiful bunch of work. I'd like to do something like this to my truck, but it would disappear down the rabbit hole of not being used for the rest of my life while it got worked on. I'm getting old.

[OregonNed]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

I was thinking quarter-sawn white oak. Either way, that is one beautiful bunch of work. I'd like to do something like this to my truck, but it would disappear down the rabbit hole of not being used for the rest of my life while it got worked on. I'm getting old.

Yep! My first choice was white, but the lumber yard didn't have enough of it at the time. Still, though, the wood was only about $225 if I remember right. My wood working friend did all the milling and finish work. But however my first choice was some flame patterned Myrtlewood that another friend harvested on his Southern Oregon coast farm, but the sawn lumber was not dried properly, and it all shifted and warped. My wood worker friend is using portions of it on other projects. That myrtlewood would have been pretty unique, though, and I wish I could have seen it finished. You can see some of the detail of that wood in this fishing net he made.