How to feel bodywork
 

i made a short video for you guys today and i hope its helpful to you, ive never done a video where i talked so it was really awkward and when i watch it i sound like an alien.:biggrin2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlT...ature=youtu.be

Thanks for the vid. Now I can hold my hand like I know what im doing but I will still suck at it. :biggrin2:
I will give that stuff a try
Thanks

90% of being a pro is just looking like you know what your doing.:biggrin2:

Famous quote:
Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

Yogi Bera

Exactly.

Another famous quote.

"Fake it till you make it."


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I have a friend that tried to teach me... I still suck at it!!:beerchug:

Thanks for the video though.. :biggrin2:

I enjoyed your video and the tips. :ThumbsUp:

Nice video Tim! Thanks for sharing! :beerchug: I'm pretty sure that is what your voice sounded like when I met you. :biggrin2:

Good video. I met an older fellow once that restored Mustangs. He did a similar technique by using black lacquer to help find imperfections. I believe what you are using would be a lot less trouble and allow you to get back to work on a panel much faster.

Tim, great video, thanks for sharing that with us. I'll give that a try on my next paint job.:beerchug:

Yes, the guide coat drys instantly and as I said won't gum up the paper.

That might be how I sound to others but its definitely not how I sound to myself.:biggrin2:

You have nice looking hands.You should be a hand model.No boo boos.
Nice vid,very informative

um... ok, thanks.:biggrin2:

Gotcha! Hehe

he must soak his hands in palmolive,lol

You guys must have a hand fetish.:biggrin2:

I must admit when I was much younger I enjoyed "feeling" the lady's body work.
but today,---- well I'll just remember the good old days Ha,LOL!:beerchug:

Good, informative vid. We appreciate it.

Oh no, I messed up my perfect hands. What will Lew do now?

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

You right hand is the betterer one :biggrin2:

And the 10% left his for having the right tools for the job :ThumbsUp:

Only one question! Is it a 67-70 Mercury Cougar hood? :biggrin2:

good eye, its off a 69 cougar. :beerchug:

Just got the car finished up today. The engine had caught fire and burnt the paint off the hood and fenders, the hood was warped pretty bad but I got it looking good. I only painted the front end.

Tim

I love those old late 60's cougars!!

Is that your car?

Nope, it belongs to an older lady who's husband bought it for her right before he died. If it were mine it would be orange with some weld racing wheels.

Great job Tim. That paint job is money, you can't even tell new vs old. What engine is in it? V8? W, C, M?

It's a v8 but I'm not sure what it is, the engine was rebuilt at another shop before it came to us for the bodywork.

Good video. Speaking as an amateur that has gotten lucky on a few projects (including sanding down some Teak speaker cabinets), I can tell you that the only way I can "feel" much of anything is with a Durablock and some sort of guide coat (on the wood I could just vaguely dampen the surface with water to raise the high spots... can't do that with steel). Before I got a couple a big blocks I re-did lots of rattle-canning.

I'd like to know how you body magicians deal with complex/hard angles (the 1x9/QL hood scallops, the ones that slope downward toward the dash) come to mind. I know there are various different blocks and stuff you can buy, but I can't wrap my mind around how to get those angles really sharp while keeping everything else flat. When I look at that panel I just envision myself sanding gallons of material before I got it right.

I'll let you paint mine for free if you want to cover the topic. ;) Oh, what the hell, I'll even cover shipping.

thats a tough one, even at my skill level something like that would be trial and error. i only have about 4 different blocks i use and i make it work, imagination plays a big part when it come to complex angles.

Doh! You gave me the answer I was afraid of, which I interpreted to read, "just gotta know what you're doing".

I have 4 cars lined up on my "learn to paint 'cause good paint costs $10k even if it isn't very good" list, and I have done a few projects and even some custom work that turned out well, and getting that stupid tractor hood right is the only thing that scares me out of all of them. I mostly have cars with simple body lines. Most folks wouldn't think of a tractor as being heavily styled, but they really are if you look at them... That white paint hides it...

...which is why the first car I plan to paint happens to be white. :)

Theres an old bodyman saying "if it ain't right paint it white" because white will hide just about any imperfection. The only downside to white is that it's harder to paint simply because its harder to see how it's going on while your spraying, use a hand held light down low on the sides to make sure the paint went on looking good.