32 model A

[Dean]

So another project. Hope its ok sharing this one. No spi products used on it.

Owner did all his own metal work, cut up cowl and moved firewall back. All bottoms of doors and body replaced. Replaced rear wheel tubs.
Now our turn to make it nice.
Used squeeg's epoxy. Suposed to be a copy of ep2 from house of colour

 

[Dean]

Lots of trim and parts to do on these.
Yellow is the ep2 copy, sanded out. Then laid on some slicksand. Blocked out for final time. Then sealer coat and paint.

 

[Dean]

Time to paint underneath and some parts. Rotisery is still in storage lol. Had to get creative lol

 

[Dean]

Everything got 4 coats. Then sanded down and 4 more coats laid down.
Its been sitting about a month now.

 

[Dean]

Now the fun begins to sand and polish this laquer job.
Colours deep blue, not black. Looks blk in shade and blue shows in sunlight more.
Using 3m perfect it polishes. First tine trying thier quick connect pad system. Works fine

 

[Dean]

Finaly all done all my colour sanding on my parts n pueces. Next onto the main body.
Thats my door reflection..i think it gets a pass.

 

[elwood]

Cool

 

[Dean]

First pic is reflection. Not a shot of a shelf lol

 

[MJM]

Incredibly deep reflection. Looks to be a flawless paint job. The second I saw that body file I knew this was going to be a good one.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dean]

Incredibly deep reflection. Looks to be a flawless paint job. The second I saw that body file I knew this was going to be a good one.

Thanks for sharing.

Fenders had a few outward dimples in the seem. Had to cut the line nicer with no fillers

 

[MJM]

I'm looking at purchasing a body file. I see body files are listed as either 00,0, 1, 2 or 3 from finest to coarsest.........or listed by tooth per inch. What tooth per inch would be a good file to learn with. Would a medium cut be 8 or 9 tooth per inch?

 

[Chris_Hamilton]

Looks great! Gotta love the look of polished lacquer.

 

[Dean]

I'm looking at purchasing a body file. I see body files are listed as either 00,0, 1, 2 or 3 from finest to coarsest.........or listed by tooth per inch. What tooth per inch would be a good file to learn with. Would a medium cut be 8 or 9 tooth per inch?

Thiers a couple standards on files. Also depends on length of files.
Not realy sute what would be good to learn on, i use them like sand paper, start course and finish fine depemding on how much material i have to remove. Obvious more course will bite more so is harder effort to work with it grabing the panel more than a fine would. And full length would be easier to hold onto.

Some info on here....https://www.kmstools.com/blog/hand-file-identification/

 

[Dean]

Looks great! Gotta love the look of polished lacquer.

Is a nice richer, deeper colour to laquor.

 

[MJM]

Thiers a couple standards on files. Also depends on length of files.
Not realy sute what would be good to learn on, i use them like sand paper, start course and finish fine depemding on how much material i have to remove. Obvious more course will bite more so is harder effort to work with it grabing the panel more than a fine would. And full length would be easier to hold onto.

Some info on here....https://www.kmstools.com/blog/hand-file-identification/

Thank you for the link, Dean. Good information there. I may not be any good at it but, I'll never know unless I try.

Thanks again,
Mike

 

[Dean]

Thank you for the link, Dean. Good information there. I may not be any good at it but, I'll never know unless I try.

Thanks again,
Mike

Im glad i had a chance to be taught when i started in this by some old skool guys before that method faded away. Not often used anymore but is nice to know how to when needed now n then