How To Build A Custom Door Panel

This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels.

How to build a custom door panel.

Full size home doors are a project we can all find a place for but they can be intimidating. However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think. Do it yourselfers can build their own panels with a few power tools and glue. How to build a door.

Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task. This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. In this article we ll be building the frame for an interior door from wood.

To custom make door panels that are strong enough for everyday use and or abuse use fiberglass mat to reinforce the high stress areas like the door pull or armrest for instance cut the fiberglass mat into several small pieces and overlap them when applying to the door panel surface for added strength. My door panels use a piece of stainless trim that i wanted to use to separate the smooth vinyl from the rolls pleats. 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. Car door panels can be expensive depending on the vehicle make and model.

Building new panels also gives you the option of using higher quality materials. Again having the originals as a guide was nice. I marked the line where it needed to be on the panel itself. When removing the old panels be sure to remove all staples and hang on to the clips.

First apply a little resin where the. Very important that this line is accurate on all 4 pieces. There s a lot of lumber and a lot of weight plus they re bigger. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results.