A Dashboard Fit for a King 💎 | Homemade Boat-tail Speedster Pt. 63

[@downtoearthconstruction]

I really hope Jay Leno is watching,I bet he would truly appreciate what you’ve done.

[@DarkestVampire92]

I hope we can one day see Vince drive this into Jay Leno's Garage for a chat.

[@ronnyfurst5511]

jay leno should offer you a job in his garage;-)

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

@@ronnyfurst5511 I doubt Jay would pay what the aircraft industry does. And - never turn Your passion into a dayjob.

[@964cuplove]

Im sure we’ll see this speedster as a guest there some day…

[@fallsroad]

Macro machines is one of very few channels that always has fresh and interesting content that never gets boring or routine. The craftsmanship is amazing.

[@PKMartin]

Most channels I love have gone from "drop everything to watch" to "meh, another video of the same stuff". This is one of the very few channels that maintains drop-everything status

[@ikonik6286]

i like grind hard plumbing co theys kinda fell off i need more suggestions

[@ErrtuZarathos]

Sure looks beautiful. But what I learned from riding years with custom bikes was, never let sun be behind you. Man you get that sun shining directly in your eye balls.

[@calvarycustoms6681]

Geez, I was patting myself on the back for restoring just ONE of the four OG mag wheels I just bought… and then you post this video, and all my work today is completely insignificant in comparison to what you’ve done here. 🤦🏼‍♂️🙄😏

[@Mister_G]

Beautiful! Well done! (Now get it lacquered before it goes dull 🙂)

[@denniscliff2071]

A few coats of automotive wax will keep the aluminum nice and shiny. Great work. I look forward to your videos.

[@Stoneface_Garage]

I've been thinking of doing this, probably watched the same videos too. Alot of hack ways to do this out there....until now. Yours is by far the best. Lots of great tips ..Thanks .

[@BIGWIGGLE223]

And damn son! That dash tho. I'm a sucker for machine jewelled surfaces. When they're not butchered. And you nailed it!!!

[@tfoley455]

Always a pleasant surprise to see a video from you

[@stuartkorte1642]

Gorgeous dash. Glad you shared the tool. Remember less is more. Firewall turned yes. Maybe a license plate beauty ring but not much more.

[@johnthemainguy9059]

Young man, you are doing something great! A real pleasure to watch this machine evolve.

[@jed7898]

You're craftsmanship is next level!. Can't wait to see you put a tag and registration on it ☺️

[@johnpowell5433]

What a superb job of engine turning. You have remarkable patience. As far as the clock goes, watch a few watch or clock videos before you mess with it. Understanding even a little bit will help you to service it. Also, DON'T be tempted to flood it with oil, or worse still WD-40. It may well have a watch-like movement that only needs tiny drops of oil in critical areas.

[@BIGWIGGLE223]

I 100% agree!! It may look like a dash clock and may give you thoughts of simple, but I promise that that is gonna be as complicated as a pocket watch and there's all kinds of horror stories about people destroying family heirlooms because they thought they understood enough to go digging through it. And as far as oiling it goes, just like precision metrology instruments, which is literally an extension of precision watchmaking, you should only put oil where oil goes. And these locations are marked by a through hole that has a small divot like cup meant to hold a single drop of oil that would come off the tip of a sharp needle. That is all. And before you wind it up any more at all it needs to be gone through by someone who knows watch repair. It looks like a legit antique Bugatti or equivalent dash clock and I know that those were made by top swiss watchmakers back then. If it was just some mass produced dash clock I'd say tear into it and try to get it going yourself and just learn from it, but not on something that may have you kicking yourself if you can't get it back into working order

[@georgehollowell9295]

@@BIGWIGGLE223 Caution! Use only clock oil! Every other oil gums up over time. Clock oil is readily available on Amazon.

[@orbsphere-]

@@georgehollowell9295 I recently learned that horologists may use nasal sebum (AKA nose grease, also only produced in sharks liver) to lube the jewels of their instruments. LOL

[@chriskucia8348]

Maybe get in touch with the Wristwatch Revival channel on that stopwatch. I bet if the two of you cross-promoted it, it would make a well-watched video. Many of us have never seen the inside of a vintage auto timing clock like yours.

[@Plan_Br]

that's a SEMA show project, i hope see that there someday!!

[@wcslv_6781]

When it’s in it looks like triangles at certain angles. Looks great!

[@craigsowers8456]

Amazing result and yes, a work of Art. Better than what they did 100 years ago with a wooden dowel and valve lapping compound !!! And don't worry, your "fingerprints" will grow back ... LOL.

[@echassin]

Beautiful, and a tach showed up at the end!

[@loetzcollector466]

I have seen high end Deucenberg's with this type of dash. I always wondered how the old world craftsmen achieved it. Thanks for walking us through it. And thanks also for the thumb nail from the funniest Bugs Bunny episode of all time.

[@whereisamerica7384]

I've been building cars as a hobby and for a living for over 30 years. Hats off to you. The ingenuity, engineering, craftsmanship and variety of skill set absolutely blows me away. Beautiful speedster. I hope that you continue to build after this is complete.

[@Olveron]

In watchmaking that pattern is called pearlage. Speaking of watchmaking, you should have a watchmaker take that clock apart. Usually you need to strip off the old oil to be able to add new oil. Not to mention almost all watchmakers have moved to synthetic oils for watches these days.

[@Paul_Lane]

Looks great. One suggestion is to wrap the edge above the dash with leather that will match your seats. Cannot wait to see the finished car.

[@hubertbelden652]

Instrument panel looks amazing….👍

[@andyZ3500s]

Hats of to you. I have seen so many people try engine turning but the diameter or pattern just doesn't look right. You nailed yours.

[@jif.6821]

My bro-in-law used to jewel bolts on rifles using his drill press, pencil erasers, and polishing compound. It came out rather nice. I had him do my bolt too. I think I found your channel when you started on your motorized couch. Always look forward to each new video. Keep up the great work. 👍

[@lennym1636]

I thought that was done with a round wire brush type of thing, but yours came out perfect. Glad you didn't just go with a stick on sticker lol...

[@Ecosse57]

holy cow! it "turned" out beautifully and i applaud your patience. i think classic intruments can restore gauges with whatever faces you want.

[@bigunone]

I remember seeing hotrods of the early years with firewalls and dashboards turned like that. Of course now days you can just but the contact paper style

[@RoadsterLoverMedia]

Best Engine Jeweling video I have ever seen. Favorited. Thank you.

[@KarlGBergman]

Ohhhhhman... That is beautiful. Just perfect. 🥰 Thanks for sharing - would not have thought of a 'solid' abrasive!

[@18wheeler77]

Reminds me of the interior of the Rolex movement watches. Also stippling a gun handle. Great job.

[@sheph7]

WOW, "absolutely gorgeous" is an understatement, well done.

[@janq-h8139]

Just one word - Amazing You are a very talented young man.

[@horstszibulski19]

That would have looked great also on one of the big Zeppelin airships, really has that look and feel of that era of machining and design... Great job with that! 👍👍👍

[@69dblcab]

Great work Vince. Good to see you make it home for a bit. I am sure your mom and dad were happy you were home. Hope all is grand in Ca. Looking forward to the next installment.

[@edspencer7121]

That is some gorgeous jewel turning young man. I would suggest an air source to wiff away the chippings the process ensues so bits and pieces aren't such subject to deal with. 👍👍👍

[@ncofab46]

Your attention to detail is amazing. Love watching the updates

[@floridian7143]

You accomplish great things, you are highly skilled and gifted. Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!

[@arneebbighausen5660]

Beautiful piece of artwork 👍 Here in Germany I have seen a jaeger tach like the one you looking for It has a 4K dial on it and cost 420€ It’s on eBay classifieds

[@yodasbff3395]

Your talent and perseverance never stop amazing me. Your workmanship is incredible. 👍

[@michaelloomer9851]

We’ll done! Totally refines the look. Did you use anything to seal it?

[@beaker2000]

One of the watchmaker channel guys may look at the clock for you, would be a super interesting video!

[@forestreese1704]

Wristwatch revival might do it

[@hoagiesherlin7732]

I fall more in love with your car with every new video

[@craigfiles7067]

Looks amazing, I remember using a 1/2" piece of dowel with a notch cut in the end & using emery tape folded in half & pushed into the notch than folded back flat in a drill press to do a fire wall in a a model ford

[@jplacroix461]

just stunning! what a gorgeous dash for your beautiful roadster. Well done.

[@stoneshrink]

Those abrasives also work very well for cleaning welds on stainless steel.

[@elliottlandco2776]

Love the Art Deco look!! The finished dash is just Awesome !! PS “Del ah hay”. ;)

[@jean-charlesweyland129]

No, it's Delage not Delahaye although Delahaye bought Delage in 1935 they were two separate companies. Delage (1905-1953), Delahaye (1894-1954).

[@schuttrostig5729]

Wow that turned out great, love the finish there.

[@naberville3305]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[@parrotraiser6541]

Glorious look! I'm a sucker for engine-turned anything,but especially instrument panels.

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

These fishscales are phenomenal. I tried my own by times, with small wire brushes from different metals though, and on much smaller parts, but I gotta have another go at it with Your technique - that dash is absolutely worth every second You put in it! Thanks for sharing.

[@JimWattsHereNow]

Well done that looks superb, so worth your hard work.

[@mikebell9166]

That dash is gorgeous! On the clock, see if you can find a watch/clock maker; he/she would probably clean it and get the guts right, rather than just add oil to what's there. You'd end up with a more satisfactory end product. There's a comment below concerning getting the dash lacquered before it tarnishes; I second that! This is so good looking, I'd hate to see if look less than it does. This entire project has been so ambitious, and so well executed that I'm just gob-smacked!

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

Very nice! - It looks like you did find a tach too!

[@allanrichards3752]

Just more stunning work. You mentioned oiling the clock to get it to go. Clocks need special oil, easily available but the best thing would be to strip and clean the clock, which for a man of your talents should not be too difficult. The oil will be turning to varnish in the pivot bearings and you need to use some wood and solvent to get the old oil out. I am thinking that a clock of the Jager Le Coutre will probably not be worn but I would replace the spring if you can get the correct size because the old spring may be a bit set and modern springs are much better.

[@MattProfa]

Im in awe every time this guy puts out a video. I hope one day to have the level of skill and patience you have

[@orbsphere-]

My uncle raced those huge sprint cars, seemed much taller than I was at the time. Folks and I visited with him and grandma when I must have been 7-8. Half bro came over to jewel the dash of his Studebaker Hawk using uncle's barn machine shop. Bro used something like a half inch diam. pink eraser from what I recall from 60+ years ago. I was quite fascinated by the whole process. You did quite an impressive bit of detailing yourself. Thanks for sharing and BTW I subscribed to your channel.

[@barthanes1]

Wow! The cherry on top. You'll be doing upholstery soon.

[@itekani]

It's truly no overstatement to say it completely transformed the look! I think you should go ahead and do the firewall too, but I'm not so sure about the "Brooklands" frames. I think you should try just polishing them up to a gloss finish and see how that looks first. Awesome work as usual. 👌

[@maxironpaw]

Another ball hit out of the park. Well done!

[@tomtruesdale6901]

That dash is a work of art. You did such a fantastic job on it.

[@kauaislash5]

Soo purdy! Great tip on those McMaster abrasion cylinders.

[@rossbuchanan7632]

Nice. When we did engine turned dash panels, our tool was a cylinder of red grandis (eucalyptus), and 'Chemico' valve grinding paste. Done laboriously on the drill press Modern tools and methods can be a lot quicker and cleaner...

[@deanforrest7724]

That dash panel looks awesome.! Great work. 👍

[@MrMk1mexico]

Absolutely stunning mate, fantastic job.

[@lawrencekeating5571]

Absolutely gorgeous!! I’d have been holding my breath till I was blue in the face - so worried I’d screw it up😁.

[@benharris7987]

Looks great! You could even do the cowl like the spirit of St. Lewis

[@captain34ca]

fantastic project, I'm glad you're back at it.

[@scottwooster4102]

Looks amazing! I'm glad you are committed to finishing it.

[@alanscheckenbach5265]

Maybe find wristwatch revival on youtube and contact Marshall to see if you can workout a deal for him to look into your chronometer and maybe get it working again.

[@ronbunker5778]

You are a remarkable craftsman! Looks fantastic!

[@tommygay8649]

Excellent job as usual. Great video.

[@thercbarn5001]

Absolutely gorgeous! Your attention to detail is amazing! Mike c

[@Jm4steam]

Good video. You do amazing work, a craftsman for sure. I hope the clock gets fixed. It most likely needs to be taken apart, all parts cleaned, pinions checks etc. Make sure to use clock/watch oil only.

[@crazy8offroad]

macro glad your still posting this car you have built is truly a work of art and craftsmanship keep up the awsome work man

[@jonathan5354]

I Always learn something new on this channel. Great work as usual!

[@EdVanMeyer]

I made a mandrel for the pattern out of a short stub of broom handle on a long bolt with a glued on leather pad hairy side out and used valve grinding paste on the pad to make the pattern, the mandrel went in a pillar drill and the circles were overlapped to make the pattern.

[@Shmoozo55]

Absolutely gorgeous! Truly stunning!👍🙌

[@johnkelly6942]

I have a completely custom single seat 1930’s style racer that’s going to get one of these engine turned dashes. Yours turned out beautiful and confirms I need to get mine done. No short cuts, you have to spend the time.

[@davevan8864]

Unreal craftsmanship again. thanks

[@Farm_fab]

For your ammeter, you will need a shunt to limit the amperage, unless you are going with an old school generator to charge the battery. If anything, you could get a modern alternator that looks like a generator, for the old look, and put a higher amperage gauge in for that.

[@corydriver7634]

Beautiful work on the dash. I think it needs some sort of finish trim on the bottom. You could probably take that clock to any clock repair shop to have it cleaned and tuned up. Looking forward to the next video.

[@davebaker9128]

I have done engine turning on a homemade jig with a drill press that used a hand drill about a million years ago, tedious barely described it, my dad showed me how, it was a dashboard for an early 1967 E type Jaguar

[@jasondk5127]

I loved jeweling I did some panels on my smoker. That looks so awesome! Great job!

[@BlackOpsJuJu]

You are Truly Very Very Talented Beautiful Job as Always Love the Whole Build can't Wait for the Next Vid

[@alseidel5622]

Fabulous job as always. When I tried engine turning I found a bit of lube ( WD 40 ) I found it helped keep the turning die clear.

[@johnhewitt7539]

1960s Rover 3 litre saloons had some nice jaeger dials in them the coupe version also had a tach maybe you can find some in a scrap yard your car is really taking shape now good luck with can't wait to see it complete

[@stephenwhite5057]

Lovely work and a pleasure to watch your methodology .Thank you for posting, really enjoyable.

[@bake162]

Stunning, nice work!

[@fredrickgustafsson4795]

So incredibly nice, love this build. exactly my taste of car to the smallest detail. Sidenote as a clock and watch hobbyist my advice is you could try to fix the jaeger cock but i recommend letting a watchmaker do the service , special oils are needed and it is very easy to destroy them for a beginner. I do have a similar 8day jaeger but in black, had my watchmaker service it ten years ago works great still.

[@rosschamberlain1823]

This whole build series has been amazing needless to say! The other definition for this effect is called "doweling". It's the way English coachbuilders did it: take a hardwood dowel of the required diameter, and pound valve-grinding paste into the end of it, plus more on the surface to be treated in a thin layer. For flat sheet stock, this was done with a drill press or milling machine, indexed for the needed spacing. Otherwise it was done freehand with a handheld drill.

[@TheShadeTreeFixitMan]

Very, very cool and appealing to the eye!

[@asciimation]

Looks great! Thanks for the tip about the abrasive things. Not right for my car but handy to know. My mentor always told me off if I said dashboard when I was walking about the 'instrument panel' on pre-war cars. Proper chronometric tachos are hard to find and expensive. If that is a proper, period Delage face on your chronometric speedo that is worth money to someone. I am working on a little circuit to read off a spark plug wire to drive a modern tacho that I can modify to look suitably pre-war and emulate a chronometric tacho to some degree. But you can't easily replicate that clockwork look the real ones have in electronics with modern tachometer mechanisms. The other incredibly useful instrument is the ignition light. That tells you the state of the battery and the charging circuit (generator or alternator) in a simple way if you understand how it works.

[@Birashanuman]

Absolutely ! I cringed when I saw him apply the electric drill drive to the pukka Delage instrument ,and could only imagine what Delage owbners were thinking . It was so out of character . When I had my SSK replica built in the 90's (on a mid 30's 8cyl chassis),I had replica instrumentation made , including Jeger tacho,though I finally managed to source a genuine Bosch ignition switch, ex period Alfa 8C ,or perhaps Bentley 8 litre , .Proper Bosch headlights, also common to to the 8C, and bull horns were eventually sourced . I would hope the epnonymously branded Delage instrument finds its way into more appreciative appropriate hands . PS: I follow your channel too

[@asciimation]

@@Birashanuman I am not sure it's a proper Delage gauge? It is a proper chronometric mechanism definitely but someone has put the wrong face on it? He mentions that in the video. The face seems to be missing the two little screws that hold that on as well as it being a clockwise mechanism but an anti clockwise face! It is an interesting bezel on it too. That ribbed aluminium kind was used on higher end cars I think. Also I think the right angle drives are hard to find so that's nice to have. Smiths in the UK bought the UK Jaeger company in 1927. I have come across other bitser type gauges before. Often sold with the sellers saying "no way to test". Finding absolutely correct period instruments is really hard and some of the prices now are insane.

[@roadiesgarage3816]

@wristwatchrevival would be a cool colab for gauge repair. Especially the chronograph

[@Roger-hq1yt]

Absolutely stunning, its been a long slow journey but what an outstanding result.

[@curtisroberts9137]

I've done jeweling both with rubber abrasive and lapping compound and dear God the rubber is SOOOOO much better of an option in every way. Looks good. Very nice work.

[@retiredman]

WOW that looks amazing . Excellent job looks incredible. It really adds a nice finish to your car.

[@daviddrake9467]

Absolutely stunning👌👌

[@Vikingwerk]

It just gets better and better!

[@argee55]

That dash is gourgous.