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Re: Repairing Plywood Dashboard - What's a Bookend

To: Michael Corbitt <Michael_Corbitt@ous.edu>
Subject: Re: Repairing Plywood Dashboard - What's a Bookend
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:17:21 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Michael Corbitt wrote:

> Perhaps, I'm the uniformed one here, or someone is playing a joke on
> me.  When I look at my dashboard, I see a thin vertical line in the
> middle of the dash that goes top to bottom.  I always assumed a
> previous owner had attempted to redo the dash, but was told by Barry
> Nelson at the Portland All British meet this last year that this
> dashboard appeared in some TR250s and early TR6's.  Basically, Barry
> indicated that a piece of veneer is split in half and then unfolded
> like a book so both sides of the dash have identical wood grain
> patterns.  At least this is what I understood Barry to tell me. He
> said this is something I should try to repair as opposed to replace.  
> Is my leg being pulled here?

I'm most def. not a woodworker, so I'll cede to the experts on the list.
 
> Mike

regards,
rml
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