I have seen old forum threads on wood graining of a Hudson Dash. Wanted to input my experiences of late. Contacted and procured from Grain-It tehnologies in Florida and purchased their kit ( above the basic kit, had the custom 6.5 inch roller ). Asked for the correct base color, ink, and toner for the 1949 Hudson Commodore and received the Maple base color, ink and toner. Tried my spare center dash section and it seemed too light to match the glove box doors and end pieces. Called Evan at Grain-It and he was extremely helpful. He said that the light wood graining on my dash has darkened over the years. He suggested going with the Carpathian Elm base, ink, and toner. I tried that and the dash came out looking very nice, but it was about one shade darker than my glove box doors. So I called Evan again, and he suggested using the Maple base color and the Carpathian Elm ink, then experiment with either the Maple toner, or the Carpathian Elm toner to see which matches best. So I took off the center dash section and sand blasted then red oxide primmer, then the Maple Base Color, followed by the Carpathian Elm ink, then the Maple toner. I then took off the glove box doors and cleaned them with Dawn Dishwashing solution to clean off 64 years of finger oil and crud. I then put them on my bench and looked at the color match. Not exact, so I then used the maple toner on the glove box doors and the match was excellent. So then I masked off the end pieces of the dash and put maple toner on them also. Then clear coated all the pieces. Very happy with the result. What I was trying to do was to not redo the original wood grain on the glove box doors and end pieces ( and match a color that had darkened over the last 64 years ). I did it ( with Grain-It Technology's assistance ).

Would have been easier to just do all the pieces over, with the Maple Base color and the Carpathian Elm ink, and Maple toner, then clear - but really wanted to save the original wood graining as long as I can.

BST RGDS
GARY