You are getting close enough to the subject with those tubes no wonder you can feel the grit.
Nice doing.
I am curious about the color - is the pyro stain translating into this with the negative to positive change?
Also got curious about the Tiger-Ey trademark - had to look up on-line. Unfamiliar with such things, i couldn't tell that this was a bezel light without that clue.
Hey Michael. 'Color is all about the scan to a color neg. Any mono neg from any soup I've tried looks similar. Between the 'Tiger Ey' and 'HexFlex' and the busy restoration groups, I would bet there's stuff to be found about the lights. This was on about a mid 30's Chevy dually work truck, adorning a storage yard, along w/ some other interesting equipment like the grain drill, a heavy multi-stage winch mounted on logs for dragging - red meat for a rusty metal guy.
I found the patent trademark certificate, then a restoration site showed a Tiger-Ey replacement for 1931-1936 Chevy truck.
Fun stuff, Finding, Fotographing, Fawning over rust. You, and @DWThomas do awesome in those environs. Love it.
Nice Mr Silver.
I like the colours under the reflector and the bottom left corner, they are great.
Would really like to get tones like that in my prints.