How To Make Your Own Interior Door Panels

Set an old door panel on the hardboard and trace its.

How to make your own interior door panels.

Before you get to sawing gluing and sanding you ll need. Acquire a 4 ft 1 2 m x 8 ft 2 4 m sheet of 1 2 in 1 3 cm plywood. Dryfit and mark the dowel locations. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results.

Place one 48 by 48 by 1 8 inch hardboard on a worktable. When cutting the panel make sure to allow for additional space for the panel to fit in the groove more on that in the next step. Measure the doorway where you ll be installing your door. Cutting and planing the styles and rails.

This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. Use the spray glue to glue the smooth vinyl to the foam. I don t have a jointer so i straighten the boards on my table saw by. For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill.

Attach the smooth side of the traced piece of hardboard to the smooth side of the other piece with clamps. This yields a stronger more stable door frame which has less tendency to warp or distort over time. This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. Interior doors are usually 1 3 8 thick.

Mark the doorway. How to build your own car door panels step 1. Lay your door out on a work table and mark the dowel locations 2 equal. Bore the dowel holes.

I usually do these lamination clamp ups in a vacuum press. The lumber that i generally use is 1 inch thick but as my interior door is 1 3 8 inches thick i needed to laminate two boards together to get it to my required thickness. However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think. This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels.

If there are any door handles or window cranks cut a hole in the foam now this will give that nice padded look with the handles sunk in just a hair. Mark simpson demonstrates on a 1962 oldsmobile door panel how to create custom car door panels using abs board and pre sewn top stitch panels from ez boy interiors. Run down to your local hardware store or home. How i build interior doors step 1.

Cutting the main door panel 1. Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task. A few other things to note.