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]

IT DIDNT WORK !!!! , man ... but well , i have to try something in order to know what works and what doesnt , real wood was not just a bad choice , it was a stupid one !! and to think that veneer would be flexible enough to acomodate the car's curves !! lol , well , thats another 40 bucks down the drain but well i learned a couple of new stuff taling to a friend of mine who wraped most of his interior in carbon fiber and added a lil bit of extras in there ... if i want a good looking , none damaging way i have to use a very thin wood laminate , the kind they use for floors and cabinets and stuff , i have to also find plastic and cut / shape into the shapes i want , then cover with my precous laminate and then stick on my dash , sounds good ? alot better than real wood i say ! well , i am out of extra cash for the month , so i will have to tackle this some time later

I just have a question to alll of you plastic experts , how do i mold or shape plastic into the curves of the interior ???