Anyone ever stripped any paint off in the front head to see what’s underneath?? …
Anyone ever stripped any paint off in the front head to see what’s underneath?? This is the only room that has any white, and it’s all white, might be nice to have a little mahogany up there.
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Probably were white from day one. Happy Easter ????
Probably mahogany under there even if it’s always been white. One sure way to find out. Worst case you paint it white again
Might be plywood so it might not be worth it to strip it. Just come up with a nice paint scheme.
The doors are usually mahogany. I have a pile of them I keep around for projects.
It’s mahogany plywood… ???? same on mine …. it’s white to help brighten the space …
painted to hide problems…
The issue you are gonna have is white paint will be deep into the grain of wood. Very hard to get it all out. I redid my deck beams had the same issue. Had to lay the stain/ filler on thick and not wipe it all out to cover the white left in the grain. ????
Myself, I would stay white.
Actually, I think you should leave the main part white but use elephant gray for the trim.
And, for the dissenting opinion…at least on my ’68 Commander, if a bulkhead/flat surface was varnished from the factory it was mahogany ply. If it was painted from the factory it was paint grade (paper finish) ply. I went through the same on my forward stateroom bulkhead, which had a similar style locker door (and the same hardware). I ultimately overlayed 1/4″ mahogany ply over the existing bulkhead and rebuilt the anchor locker door. For the remaining painting surfaces up there, I used offwhite topside paint, flattened down to a satin finish.
…just realized I never got a good “finished” shot. But here’s an interim that shows the bulkhead complete.
Here’s ours
Not sure what year yours is Cindy, but mine was a ’67. Just to make it easy, paint the frames white and take the doors off and strip them to mahogany. It’s a classic look without all the work. Is your aft head all painted out too?
Came from factory white big job to change
1/4″ ply or a veneer overlay is a great fix.
Our ’48 is white in bow stateroom with all mahogany in aft cabin – seems CC made each larger boat different. You can do what you want!
Our 1937 is white down below. The bulkheads are 1″ plywood with only 3 laminations (1/4″ outers and 1/2″inner). The outsides were smoothed with some sort of surfacing compound to eliminate any grain or imperfections, then the paint was applied. Consequently, stripping the paint and the filler does not leave a nice wood surface to stain and varnish. Personally, I don’t care for too much all brightwork down below, only enough to make for a nice contrast with the clean white finish. But it is your boat so my preferences don’t really matter.
I went back to Austin last week.. you’re not doing this work in THAT weather are you??.. as much as I missed Austin, coming back to Michigan was a relief ????
I predict that it looks like this. Full mahogany interior of our 1967 Commander, the only year they did the 42 with real wood inside. This is our forward head.
Forward head.
Gonna do the same to mine ,69 commander 42 aft cabin
I did that exact thing on my 1967 36 foot Constellation and here is how it looked. Unfortunately it was just marine plywood under the white paint and didn’t look right stained so it will be back to white or a different door mabie?
It is mahogany marine ply, with a very heavy face veneer. It’s difficult to get all the white out of the pores, but it can be done. It would have been varnished originally, so hopefully they painted over the varnish.