Home Made wood trim, i think i am up to something Options

[NaderG]

So i posted this idea in an older post and no body replied , i have alot of ideas for my car , some are impossible to do without a fat wallet , some are simple , here is one of the simpler ideas :

i want to add custom amde wood trim in my car , in places that it shouldnt be :
RED --> places i want to put it in
Yellow --> maybe , if things turn out well





Here is what i PLAN to do :
I baught a pack of wood veneer , not the best but the wood looks good . i will finish it my self , cut it to size and then the problem begins ( You can buy prefinished, high quality , flexible veneer online for a price ) The problem is how exactly to put it on there , if i just stick it on there using adhesive it would look cheap and the wood would be above the vinyl and ehh , what i am thinking of doing is using a knife to carve out a 1mm deep place for the wood into the vinyl , make a lil bit smaller that the actual wood and make pockets at the end like this /________\ and then squeeze the wood in with some adhesive and i am done , the only thing is that i am afraid that cutting the vinyl would leave marks all over the edges and make it look bad

PLEASE I NEED OPINIONS !!!! help me out with this project !! any ideas of how to put it on without making it look cheap ??? suggestion ??? THANX , i hope this works so that everybody can benefit.

[NaderG]

I just finished finishing one of my wood veneers , its HARD , i hard to do a bunch of tets first and it still isnt perfect , i cut pieces into size for test fitting ..... lets just say that out interior is a heck alot more curvy that it looks !!! the natural 2 ply wood veneer couldnt accomodate all the curves ! so yah , 20 bucks down the drain for the wood , and another 20 for the finishing products , i thinki can still return the finishing stuff ... god i hope , i havent given up though , i am still looking into flexible veneer ... tough stuff to fins though , so i will try laminate first , i just hope it doesnt look cheap , if it does then i will just quit the project ..