Boo . . . Scary Console

[Bigshrimpin]

After pulling out all the junk inside, carving it up and patching the holes I thought I'd take a few shots of the Jacko-Lantern console.

[warthog5]

Now what'ca gonn'a do? Lexan panels over the holes or fill it all in with glass? It is Spooky Looking. HeHe

[Bigshrimpin]

It's hard to see in the pics, but I patched all the areas already. Each "glow in the dark" spot is actually 4 layers of 1708 and epoxy. The light just shines through.

Everything will be faired and primed tomorrow.

BTW - Warthog your paint job on the xshark looks flawless. Nice job.

[warthog5]

Thanks, Nothing's perfect, but I try. HeHe
So now you have a clean slate to start with. Good deal.
Are you going to move the helm to the port side like Strick did?

[strick]

Everything will be faired and primed tomorrow.

It took me 2 months to get to the point were I could fair and primer the consel. You must be working 24 hour shifts on that boat of yours [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Thats looking really great. It does look like a 23 consel but narrower like you told me. I'll bet you are happy to be working in the garage during all this heat [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I'm bolting on all the hardware. I finished the non-skid and Wednesday the consel and hard top go to Modesto for the tower. Let me know when you are ready for that pay back [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Strick

[Bigshrimpin]

Warthog - I like the throttle on the right side of the wheel and away from the egde of the console . . . so the the plan to move the helm to the left and the controls to the center. The previous owner had the wheel in the center and the controls on the left side. Might look a bit strange, but I think it's going to be a better setup.


Strick!! I can't believe you're almost done. How did the non-skid come out? Looks like you'll make your sept deadline after all.

This boat continues to baffle me. Not only do I believe that the hull and deck are from different boats, but the console is definitely from a 23. When I removed the rug interior and cleared away the glue, a seem appeared that ran right down the center of the console. Someone at one point sawed the console in half, trimmed away about 10" (of the width), and glassed it back together. Same story with the door . . cut right down the middle and glassed together.

The garage is great . . . . I'll don't know how I could have lived this long without one. Anyway I'll give you a call this week.

[warthog5]

I agree. I like the way your doing it. Did Strick tell you about my idea of making tilted bezeles out of Mahagony. Like the Gaffrig bezeles are in alum, for around the guages.
It's something you can do with a drillpress, holesaw and a router. It wouldn't cost much and really make the guages stand out.

[Bigshrimpin]

That's a great idea . . . I'll bet they'd look really sharp. I never thought of putting a hole saw on a drill press.

[warthog5]

If you want angled bezeles. Your going to need a thicker piece of stock and run it thru the tablesaw at say 15 to 20deg. Now you can drill the gage hole 2 1/16. Then you will need a backer board to pickup the long pilotbit and drill the outside dia. say 2 5/8in [experment to see what looks good] Then run it thru a table mounted router to do a round over on the outer edge.
You might be able to not have to have the backer board, if you drill the 2 1/6in hole but don't go all the way thru. Then drill the outside hole, but not all the way thru. Then go back and finish the 2 1/16 and you will have made the outside cut deep enough to pick up the holesaw again and not have it wonder.

[warthog5]

On that almost flat spot, just before the console goes almost verticle. That where I'd use a angled bezle. If your putting them some where else, then just make the bezzle stright. It already has enough angle to make them easy to read.
Here's a pick of the alum anodized bezzles from Gaffrig.

[img]http://www.gaffrigperformance.com/images/display/Bezels/Bezels_big/8500_BIG.jpg[/lmg]

Take a look here to see how they sized the ID and OD of bezzles.
http://www.gaffrigperformance.com/Pr...eSubCategory=6

This is something I'm going to do when I don't have anything else to do. Yea Right!
I'd spring for some Honey Teak to coat them with. No maintance. It would make the boat say.
"Yea I'm a Classy Bitch" HeHe