sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
Hate buffertrails!!!
Not too worried about the paint on the black truck. Every panel has a dent, dig, scratch or scrape, including the roof. Good from afar, far from good. When it does get painted, it's gonna be in a 70 degree gloss black. Close to what the factory black bumpers on GMT400's look like.
I'm a little more freaky on the blue truck's paint. It was just painted last August.
When I worked on corporate jets, the wood shop & paint shop had to work long hours to get the finish on the woodwork to have that mile deep look. 30 coats of acrylic, wet sanded between each coat. Then buffed & polished to a mirror finish. That's were I first learned of '3M Perfect it'. Absolutely amazing stuff. It has the right name.
After 9/11. when the Co. pulled the pin, all head office in Montreal was concerned with keeping was the hard goods. (tools, machinery, etc.) All the 'soft goods' (thread, foam, leather, various chemicals, etc.) were fair game. All that wasn't worth the shipping costs. The painter & I split a case of Perfect It. Even got my dyed in the wool Simoniz Paste Wax using ole' man converted over to it with a follow up of the NXT. And he has 7 collector vehicles, 3 of which are black, that for 40+ years got nothing but the Simoniz.
One of my best friends quite school 4 months before grad, to open a detail shop.
"You're what? Quitting school to go polish cars? You're an idiot!"
10 years later, he had 7 locations! Was doing all the new car prep & used car clean-ups for the dealerships around each location. Then he got into doing the same for the Semi's. That's when he started making the big bucks. He was getting brand new stainless boxes for dump trucks, & paying a kid minimum wage for 2 days + $200.00 in chemicals to polish them. He'd charge $2000.00 for each one & one of his stores would do 5-6 of those a month! Most were sent south to the U.S.
Whenever one of us had no work, or needed a few bucks, we'd go work for him for a week, or a month. That's were I learned to do a lot of this stuff.
When buddy turned 45, he sold all his detail shops in one deal...& RETIRED!!! The *******! He made us take back the 'idiot' comments!
I do have a question for you, though. What do you know about wet sanding? Are you able to do video of some tips & tricks on that?
The new paint on the '97 has been hit with bird poop & burnt it in a couple of spots. Most don't see that, but I do. I've tried everything short of wet sanding to get them out, but that's something that I don't have a lot of (like '0') experience in. I know that I could probably do that, just don't want to screw up a good paint job. My painter says that he laid down a lot of clear on the truck, so it's good to go for wet sanding.
Not too worried about the paint on the black truck. Every panel has a dent, dig, scratch or scrape, including the roof. Good from afar, far from good. When it does get painted, it's gonna be in a 70 degree gloss black. Close to what the factory black bumpers on GMT400's look like.
I'm a little more freaky on the blue truck's paint. It was just painted last August.
When I worked on corporate jets, the wood shop & paint shop had to work long hours to get the finish on the woodwork to have that mile deep look. 30 coats of acrylic, wet sanded between each coat. Then buffed & polished to a mirror finish. That's were I first learned of '3M Perfect it'. Absolutely amazing stuff. It has the right name.
After 9/11. when the Co. pulled the pin, all head office in Montreal was concerned with keeping was the hard goods. (tools, machinery, etc.) All the 'soft goods' (thread, foam, leather, various chemicals, etc.) were fair game. All that wasn't worth the shipping costs. The painter & I split a case of Perfect It. Even got my dyed in the wool Simoniz Paste Wax using ole' man converted over to it with a follow up of the NXT. And he has 7 collector vehicles, 3 of which are black, that for 40+ years got nothing but the Simoniz.
One of my best friends quite school 4 months before grad, to open a detail shop.
"You're what? Quitting school to go polish cars? You're an idiot!"
10 years later, he had 7 locations! Was doing all the new car prep & used car clean-ups for the dealerships around each location. Then he got into doing the same for the Semi's. That's when he started making the big bucks. He was getting brand new stainless boxes for dump trucks, & paying a kid minimum wage for 2 days + $200.00 in chemicals to polish them. He'd charge $2000.00 for each one & one of his stores would do 5-6 of those a month! Most were sent south to the U.S.
Whenever one of us had no work, or needed a few bucks, we'd go work for him for a week, or a month. That's were I learned to do a lot of this stuff.
When buddy turned 45, he sold all his detail shops in one deal...& RETIRED!!! The *******! He made us take back the 'idiot' comments!
I do have a question for you, though. What do you know about wet sanding? Are you able to do video of some tips & tricks on that?
The new paint on the '97 has been hit with bird poop & burnt it in a couple of spots. Most don't see that, but I do. I've tried everything short of wet sanding to get them out, but that's something that I don't have a lot of (like '0') experience in. I know that I could probably do that, just don't want to screw up a good paint job. My painter says that he laid down a lot of clear on the truck, so it's good to go for wet sanding.
