Before they sold burlwood kits for '69 dashes, I bought a roll of the burlwood vinyl material that they use for the console kits. NPD was happy to tell me who their vendor was and the vendor was happy to sell me a roll of vinyl for the project. I used a pencil and grocery bags to make a template of the dash and cut out the area that would be burlwood.

Next, I placed the template on the back (unprinted) side of the burlwood vinyl and sprayed black primer over the template to leave a pattern on the vinyl to cut out.

This all worked quite well until the oh-$#!T moment, when I realized I had laid the paper template on the vinyl upside-down. I had made a mirror-image of the vinyl pattern that I needed, and my roll of burlwood material was ruined.