My unique door cards with a cornish beachy twist.
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If you look at the door lock mechanism, I have routed mine and then sanded the edge.. This is so that the plastic latch surround still sits flush with the lever.. Then when it gets covered with leather and the plastic surround fitted, the hard edge at the edge of the routing won't show and the leather will take a natural curve in to the routed area.. You said you are leaving yours natural wood grain. so the sanding isn't so important to take the edge of the routing, but you might want to consider routing the area where the handle surround will fit.. Also if you are using the rubber grommet from the adjustable mirrors, you might want to route that too.. The other option, seeing as you have used two pieces of 4mm ply is to adjust the top piece to allow a larger opening at these two areas.. Hope this helps..
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Hi matey.. I am just having my custom door cards done in leather as we speak.. Having just been through the trials and tribulations of building some slightly thicker, more acoustic door cards, I can see a couple of potential problems that you may want to look at.. First of all, let me show you my 7mm birch ply door cards, then explain what concerns me about yours..
If you look at the door lock mechanism, I have routed mine and then sanded the edge.. This is so that the plastic latch surround still sits flush with the lever.. Then when it gets covered with leather and the plastic surround fitted, the hard edge at the edge of the routing won't show and the leather will take a natural curve in to the routed area.. You said you are leaving yours natural wood grain. so the sanding isn't so important to take the edge of the routing, but you might want to consider routing the area where the handle surround will fit.. Also if you are using the rubber grommet from the adjustable mirrors, you might want to route that too.. The other option, seeing as you have used two pieces of 4mm ply is to adjust the top piece to allow a larger opening at these two areas.. Hope this helps..
Hi mate thanks for having a look at this. Ive seen your work and by any chance are you a chippy?!
I know what you mean about routing the door handle section, I'm going to be using the chrome metal ones and I'm hoping they'll be sitting on top of the birch ply.
As for the mirror adjuster, i have the wolfsburg ones and again I'm hoping that they'll cover the hole i have drilled for the stem. Once i get around to putting it all back together il let you know how i get on and upload some pictures.
cheers mete
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