cheap dash flock

14th February 2009, 21:31

im considering starting a lil business on flocking interiors eg dashs center consoles etc and i just want to know how much demand for it there is so if anybody is interested post a reply any comments welcome

15th February 2009, 00:13

how much would it cost roughly mate?

15th February 2009, 00:22

well if you take it to profesionals its over 100quid so i was gunna say bout £50 for a dash

15th February 2009, 01:55

if you can post up pictures of your work then yes i will be intrested.

Also you will more than likely need to supply some dash boards as not everyone wll be able to be without there dash for a little while

15th February 2009, 01:58

what about if he got the dashes then they exchanged them plus the £50 is that not a good deal also

15th February 2009, 02:04

not quite sure what you meen mate?

All im sayin is he is in liverpool and im in newcastle. so would take a while to send and then receive my dash back...

Did you meen liek him source a dash, flock it, send it to me, then me send him my dash??

15th February 2009, 02:06

what i mean mate is he gets a dash from scrapyard or summet then flocks it then sends it to you for £50 and once you take out ur old one send it to him so he can do the same again n again so hes nout out alot of cash for dashes

15th February 2009, 02:08

ahhh right i get you now

Yes that sounds fair imo i would be up for this without a doubt but would want to see pictures of his work first.

Aso if he can do coloured flocking.

15th February 2009, 02:13

aye would be gd m8 neways off 2 bed c yas l8r

15th February 2009, 02:47

get some pics up and you can do mine if your good enough

15th February 2009, 09:35

£50 sounds cheap, i want my door cards doing...

15th February 2009, 12:39

sounds a good price mate, post some pics up and im sure you will have alot of customers. do you do door cars too?

15th February 2009, 16:53

right well this is only in the idea stage and if i do start it up it wont be for about month because i need some more equipment. but that was my plan ill source a dash so you order what colour you want it done and ill do it (you will have to do your research on colours if you want specials that i carnt get hold of) but here are some pictures of my dash that i done and didnt have all the proper equipment so yours should look even better !!!!!!

15th February 2009, 16:58

nt bad by the looks of the pics

15th February 2009, 17:02

I'd be interested if you could flock my dash red, or the dash black and red console etc.

15th February 2009, 17:02

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Originally Posted by PH4NT0M_BL4DE

sounds a good price mate, post some pics up and im sure you will have alot of customers. do you do door cars too?

yeh when i get all my equipment ill prety much be able to do any parts dash, center console + acssories (heater surronds etc), pillars, subwoofers, custom surronds prety much anythink with a hard surface. this is english flocking btw rally style not like what you see on american cars were every strand is uniformed, english flocking is not uniformed because its origanal purpose was to stop sun glare maybe in the future i mite start doing american stlye but atm i carnt afford £900 for a electrolisis machine.

15th February 2009, 17:04

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Originally Posted by ant809099

I'd be interested if you could flock my dash red, or the dash black and red console etc.

yeh ill be able to do a red console and acssories and a black dash that fairly straight forward

15th February 2009, 17:10

im keen keep us posted id just be looking at black blue and silver is this pos

15th February 2009, 17:21

yeh black and silver is possible the colours i can get my hands on are listed below;
black,lite blue and dark blue
gold, silver,dark grey
red, pink, orange
purple yellow
lite green, dark green
and white
these are colours that i have sourced up 2 now and a rough price is £50-£60 depending on how cheap am going to get all the material and glue for but carnt realy see it being more than sixty to be onist. when i start your in charge of postage as it wont rele be cost effective for me but i dnt mind if you would want to drop it off in person as i could do it there an then as it only takes a few hours. this would still be cheaper than taking it to the pros!

15th February 2009, 17:44

sonud like a plan

im in... ill have a few panels done ill have a word see if anyones intrested

down my way

15th February 2009, 17:57

good well like i said ill start in a few weeks just need to source some decent glue thats not proper expensive and a air compressor and spray gun

15th February 2009, 18:42

ebay for all that m8

15th February 2009, 18:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by scott-e-

yeh when i get all my equipment ill prety much be able to do any parts dash, center console + acssories (heater surronds etc), pillars, subwoofers, custom surronds prety much anythink with a hard surface. this is english flocking btw rally style not like what you see on american cars were every strand is uniformed, english flocking is not uniformed because its origanal purpose was to stop sun glare maybe in the future i mite start doing american stlye but atm i carnt afford £900 for a electrolisis machine.

I think you will find that all the uk professionals use electrostatic machines. The quality difference is chalk and cheese

15th February 2009, 18:51

i am interested, but would like to see some of your work before i buy if you know what i mean

15th February 2009, 20:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by KamRacing

I think you will find that all the uk professionals use electrostatic machines. The quality difference is chalk and cheese

sorry well iv mixed them up one use electrostatic and the other dont theres are simply sprayed like i do but not all uk pros use the electrostatic thing. if you look on the first page i have piks of my own dash that i done myself

15th February 2009, 21:40

Might be interested in the centre console, side air vent, glove box lid, and the dial surround in silver, or dark grey could you give us a rough estimate of them price. Cheers

15th February 2009, 21:44

id rather pay the money and get it done properly tbh

16th February 2009, 01:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by scott-e-

sorry well iv mixed them up one use electrostatic and the other dont theres are simply sprayed like i do but not all uk pros use the electrostatic thing. if you look on the first page i have piks of my own dash that i done myself

Personally I'd look at saving up for a proper machine. The electrostatic machines will give a far more even coating. I can see flaws in the flocking where its a bit on the thin side around the more complicated edges. It may be ok for personal use but with a business you need lots of happy customers to grow and quality will be very important to your reputation.
If you can match the high quality of the top flockers at a lower price then you are onto a winner. With low overheads you should be able to recoup the money relatively quickly.

16th February 2009, 02:50

i am very interested in having a dash flocked in red and seeing as im not too far away could do it in a day?

16th February 2009, 03:22

you can see thin spots in my dash because i never used a spray gun not because of electrostatic all that does is make the fibres stand up on end, coverage is down to how evenly you put the glue on and how good you are with a spray gun! if you do your reasearch you will find that many company that do this professionaly dont use electrostatic equipment because it has a alot more shiny apperance which is NOT flockings PURPOSE!!!!!!! i will be starting in around 3-4 weeks like i said i havent got my prices fully worked out yet but they wont be expensive!!!!

16th February 2009, 23:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by scott-e-

you can see thin spots in my dash because i never used a spray gun not because of electrostatic all that does is make the fibres stand up on end, coverage is down to how evenly you put the glue on and how good you are with a spray gun! if you do your reasearch you will find that many company that do this professionaly dont use electrostatic equipment because it has a alot more shiny apperance which is NOT flockings PURPOSE!!!!!!! i will be starting in around 3-4 weeks like i said i havent got my prices fully worked out yet but they wont be expensive!!!!

Pm me when you got ya gear ready an il be your guinnea pig.

16th February 2009, 23:13

How much for just centre console?

16th February 2009, 23:54

Hiya scott-e- i would be very intrested in having the heater surounds n pillars. just do a thread when you are ready n i will def give you a shout

17th February 2009, 08:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by scott-e-

you can see thin spots in my dash because i never used a spray gun not because of electrostatic all that does is make the fibres stand up on end, coverage is down to how evenly you put the glue on and how good you are with a spray gun! if you do your reasearch you will find that many company that do this professionaly dont use electrostatic equipment because it has a alot more shiny apperance which is NOT flockings PURPOSE!!!!!!! i will be starting in around 3-4 weeks like i said i havent got my prices fully worked out yet but they wont be expensive!!!!

so the company i used which does dashboards for the wrc teams, which incidentally uses the electrostatically charged method is getting it all wrong then?

if you do it without the proper machinery, people will be disappointed, and people will not pay.

thats the fact of life

17th February 2009, 08:36

24th February 2009, 02:44

ryt av nearly got most the money together to buy most my equipment, seen as some NOB head was moaning about electro static iv orederd the equipment so wer ever you went and paid top dollar u got ripped off cos im going to be doin it alot cheaper

24th February 2009, 20:57

i'd be interested in getting my doorbins flocked if you could offer that at a good price? shoot me a pm with a price when you're up and running