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A small custom shop in Texas. The mismatched parts are really my fault. This kind of finish only works on my color interior as noted above. Initially I only wanted a little bit of something of a change, so I did the door handle surrounds, then I decided a bit more and I did the rear console and the center switch panel. I rode around with that for a year and it kept looking out of place, so that's when I bought another front console and I sent the 1 year old rear console for them to match, but doing this refinishing of plastic parts is tricky and trying to replicate a finish is tough to do. It very much like do a carbon fiber finish. If your going to do it, send in all the parts so get treated all at the same time.
And fortunately the difference is minor and doing the whole console I didn't think I wanted all that much of a burl wood finish. But time made me rethink my choice and second guessing myself proved a little foolish. I saved all the original parts if ever another owner want to put it back to 'shale'. Shale isn't really a color, some of it looks a little bluish and some is just gray, yet the seats and carpets are damn near a off-white color. I tried changing the door grab handles, the shifter and E-brake boots, but it still wasn't right, I looked at carbon fiber choices, but then it would look like my bathroom. So I went with the wood finish. I did all of the work by myself and getting the switch panel was the biggest challenge as I had to remove all the electric's out of it and send it with the rear console. Once I got it back I had to reinstall the switches, and then the traction control rubber depress switch wasn't working as the new finish had made the opening for the detent button too tight. So I used some 1000 grit wet sand paper and I slowly worked on the opening till the button now is very easy to operate.
Hay, It's a Corvette, the whole thing is made of plastic. So do your own thing ! Right ? But I didn't want to go overboard. Tell me what you think ??? To me, it's a lot better than gray/ shale or whatever the color combo is called. But what I did won't work on most Corvettes. Anytime you do this kind of thing you take a risk.
Thank you ! And a big thank you to foggy47 ! 
With great thanks to Foggy47, I got the last part of my console refinished, I shouldn't of waited for that past year the finish is hard to matched. Just like trying to mix new paint to match old paint as it's a tad darker, but I think it looks great, which is the most important thing. 
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