Which cherry wood used for 1973 CS dashboard?

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Hello all,

as I know cherry wood was used at my 1973 CS dashboard. I want to fit an Oil-Pressure/Temperature gauge like shown on the foto.

Anybody knows exactly which kind of cherry wood was used in 1973 by BMW?

I know it is cherry....but there are different cherry woods on the market.

Thanks Ulrich
 

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are you sure it cherry
most were done with french walnut which looks like your picture
just a thought
 
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Alan is correct, French Walnut...the cut they originally used is a plain, flat cut, and the finish after almost forty years, would usually sun bleach to a more red tone that has led many to think cherry or mahogany. The photo, I'm guessing, is what you want, not what you have...standard walnut dash, and the custom gauge surround looks a different tropical species...and yes, do the search...
 
Just about to tackle same...

Want to redo my own wood, too. My '73 is a euro and the veneer on every piece is damaged, at least in part.
My concern isn't in matching the replacement wood with French Walnut; I am more concerned about duplicating the thin veneer and worrying about its longevity. My thoughts are to use a dry, solid walnut, mahogany or even a tigerwood - whatever! Even a burl I find...
Come to think of it: A black walnut chunk arrived on my stream bank last month during a flood, and it looks aged and prepped; stands about three feet high and rough cut at approximately an 8"x8". A gift from the gods; my Triton dash...
So aside from offending the purists (and I'd keep the original flaking thin-veneered pieces in case I got stupid and tried to sell some day), what am I missing concerning solid wood?
 
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Btw: do you know how I can just go out to my shop, take pictures with this ipad and then post here? For you and everyone? I'm lacking this expertise.
Also, who'd hate it if I got rid of my ashtrays in my resto? Along with other small details?
 
When you reply or create a post, below the message box you will see Additional Options, Attach Files. You can upload from there unless files are too large.
 
12doplumbing said:
who'd hate it if I got rid of my ashtrays in my resto? Along with other small details?
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You have my permission to lose the ashtrays. But keep in mind that to fill the holes where the ashtrays went you will need to re-make the vinyl door panels, as well as the wood trim above them. And since the door panel vinyl is head-embossed, and mixes smooth and basket weave, replacing it isn't so easy.

When I re-did the wood on my coupe, I deleted the front/center speaker grille (the thing that started this thread!), just as Stan has done (see the photo in post #7 above).
 
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HB Chris said:
It will only take one photo per post if using iphone/iPad.
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The issue isn't that you used an Apple product (e.g., iphone/iPad) to shoot your pictures.

It's that you used a high-resolution camera, so the resulting image is large. I keep an old camera (it's something like 2 M pixels) for shooting pictures that can be posted. Alternately, use a free photo editing website like http://www.picresize.com/ to reduce the size of your images.

Just as an experiment, I uploaded these photos of my dash. The chart on the upload screen says the maximum size of a jpeg file is 97.7 KB.
 

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Jay, not resolution based, it takes the first and if you load another it replaces it. If too large it won't upload period.
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Chris:

I don't think it works as you describe, since I was able to load multiple photos into my post above. I was going to guess that 12doplumbing's picture size was > 97.7 KB, but I downloaded his photo from post #11 an it is 96 KB. So I'm puzzled why I can load multiple photos, but he can't (maybe his other pictures are > 97.7 KB).
 
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I can load five from my laptop, bigger than 98kb. iPad pics are all assigned the name, image.jpg. I can't rename them until loaded to my laptop.
 

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HB Chris said:
I can load five from my laptop, bigger than 98kb.
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Oh I get it; you're saying it works differently on an ipad than it does on a laptop because of the ipad's file naming rules.

12doplumbing said:
that's not solid wood? Maybe it's the resolution
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No, it's veneer applied to new plywood by Madera Concepts. They were able to re-veneer most of my old wood bases, but the dashboard pieces had too much water damage to be re-used.

I think you are a pioneer in using solid wood on an e9.
 
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