can/has it been done?? home made headliner...

can/has it been done?? home made headliner...

I went to a place here locally called mr. Plywood they sell 1/8 inch ply, just I believe one thin slice. I tried to Home Depot and only thing they had was this quarter inch and it was still too thick. The two things that would have made this a thousand times easier would have been first the voodoo thoughts in my head just like the automatic transmission. Oh it's some big thing that can't be done except for a big professional. First thing stop those stupid thoughts. This isn't no Stamped Out piece of junk like you'll get stock, this is like something they would do at the Rolls-Royce plant and handcrafted with a Craftsman. Second I would have definitely benefited from a good template and not trying to flip one side to the other side trying to make pieces match and then having to carve out some of the corners that weren't even there. Also again not having to mess with all this stuff tape in the first place but going right to the hinges that I'm now figuring out exactly how I want to do it. Actually I do have a way I'm taking my Harbor Freight rivets and going down and getting some small washers so I can put one on each side of the rivet to spread the load and rivet on some straps of leather acrossed several spots along those hinge lines. I just bought my material and glue and that was another $60 so now I'm into this a total of $80. I'll probably be another five or ten dollars into washers or something like that. My $60 was probably almost twice what you'd spend if you just bought that regular modern headliner material but I have a taste for the Exotic and this particular bild is calling for something of an older kind of restoration.

zkx14 said
This is turning out awesome! I really did not think a hardboard product would take the right shape. Guess I over estimated the bends/form of the original, cause that looks like it fits great. I figured if I ever wanted better than my repaired one, I would be buying plastic. But, maybe not... What thickness plywood are you using?