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    Man your sanding are is getting a work out. Don't feel lonesome, I know I have been there and sure we all have at one time or another.
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    Painting is such a chore at times isn't it?!?! But you're efforts will be rewarded as that car is going to look like a polished jewel!

    At least you're on the home stretch now!

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    Rog, you may already know this stuff, but we had a small discussion (way back when...) about fixing nibs and runs that may apply to some of your work. To my feeble advice a couple real painters chimed in: Paint repair tip.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
    Rog, you may already know this stuff, but we had a small discussion (way back when...) about fixing nibs and runs that may apply to some of your work. To my feeble advice a couple real painters chimed in: Paint repair tip.
    Bob, I went back and read through the tips, and they are great. Especially Shine's comment that "... the razor blade is just part of it..." My paint guy told me to take a single edge blade and wrap the sides & edge with masking tape, leaving about 3/4" of blade exposed. Use it like a scraper, following the direction of the run (like gravity pulled it), and with careful use it will stop cutting when the run is as thick as the tape. At that point it can be blocked smooth. I took it one step farther and rounded the corners of the blade on a smooth grinding wheel to eliminate any gouging effect on convex surfaces, and I also have been successful doing an initial "shave" of the highest parts, running flat to the surface on the tape, which puts the blade slightly above the surface. Tedious work, but just another step for a rookie painter....
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    You got a "see yourself" shine in the quarter panel already!

    Yeah, I'm guessing black can be pretty hard to shoot even with your great shop space and decent lighting. Where in the heck do those stinking sags & runs come from when it looked so perfect just a second ago????

    I have no doubt it will end up being pretty flawless before it's all said and done!
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    Like many things in building a Hot Rod, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it!!
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    Roger, you're taking me back to a year that I really don't want to remember. I've painted six or seven cars in my life, but my yellow '34 gave me the most trouble I can remember. It wasn't a new paint system to me either. One point of wisdom. When you're finished, your paint job will look 10 times worse to you than it does to anyone else, because you'll know where all the warts are and where all the bodies are buried.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle View Post
    Roger, you're taking me back to a year that I really don't want to remember. I've painted six or seven cars in my life, but my yellow '34 gave me the most trouble I can remember. It wasn't a new paint system to me either. One point of wisdom. When you're finished, your paint job will look 10 times worse to you than it does to anyone else, because you'll know where all the warts are and where all the bodies are buried.
    Yep, I know you're right, Jack. It's hard to stop and say "It's OK", but like you say others will "OOOOH" and AHHHHH", while I say, "But look here, and here, and here!!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    Yep, I know you're right, Jack. It's hard to stop and say "It's OK", but like you say others will "OOOOH" and AHHHHH", while I say, "But look here, and here, and here!!"
    i have had some bone heads want to pick my cars apart body works over 20years old paint on both is over 15 years old .hey look you have a chip there or boy them doors lowers could be better ? many times i smile tell them it.s the way it came from Gm or ask them if they want to see the 10 spots i have seen that they have not found on my cars
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    I'll just carry a "Friendly Stick" to whack the first guy who says my car's friendly cause it has so many waves....
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    I'll just carry a "Friendly Stick" to whack the first guy who says my car's friendly cause it has so many waves....
    i was at a car show with my chevy had three older guys go to the front look down the side of the car then go to the back look down the sides did for some time?? did not say hi or any thing to me what the hell . i walk up to them looked at them.i told them if you find any thing to let me know
    Irish Diplomacy ..the ability to tell someone to go to Hell ,,So that they will look forward to to the trip

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    Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy View Post
    i walk up to them looked at them.i told them if you find any thing to let me know
    I had a couple folks do that to me when I had my Mustang.. They asked if it was a true GT I said yes. They mentioned it didn't say it on the lower sides, I said no, I removed the badges 'cause I like it better without it. They said I ruined the car! I laughed and told'em to buy it from me for 20 Large and they could fix it!!!

    Then I asked which car was their's so I could pick it apart.. they just stammered something and left... dumbasses!!
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    you will soon find that most of them guys are the ones that ride there bikes to car shows or have a car far from close to any thing like what you have or paint and fit . thats why i stop going to car shows any more
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    Car Shows----------------

    I kinda like the summer time cruise nights(as a spectator(and I take my camera))

    The SHOWS----------------are pretty much disgusting, damn trailers take up so much room for blocks around that I can't find a parking spot big enough for my F350 crew cab-------

    Check writers--------------------

    Wagon wheels(30+) on 100k motorcycles-------------

    Engine covers and neon lights

    loud sterios

    I think my wife threw out all the trophies from the ISC shows--------only throphy left around here is on low et from Bakersfield and some WKA Eagles from the boys karting and a wall plack and small trophy for being 1964 Soldier of the Year for 2nd Inf Div (befoe Nam but during civil unrest at Selma)

    OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH------forgot a premeir event---Los Angeles Auto Show-----VIP nite where all the celebs go---cocktails, orderves(Crab legs/claws,etc) Our funny car was an invited car to be in the entrance lobby(by the front doors)-----the tv / movie people started spraying the engine down with something to kill the shine so there wouldn't be any reflections------------We removed the car from the show lobby and loaded it into our trailer parked in the street where all the limos and such were dropping off the STARS/VIP on the RED CARPET--------------
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    I still like the small one's put on by a local car club, more of a social gathering of gearheads then anything else! The big shows, been there, done that. (Ain't going back.) I still go to a few of the local one's, more to watch the people looking at the cars and the usual comments they make. There's always a few "trophy hunters" around and they do their usual thing of crying and whining about whoever gets a trophy. If I should get a trophy, I like to give it to one of the kids who are always hanging around with their big smiles and glazed eyes!
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