orangejuiced86;18277 said:Thanks! Honestly I am not happy with the gn. I feel I could have cut it down a little flatter, but honestly its a street car and its going to be abused. No sense breaking myself over it.
Looks great! I'm in the same boat about having kids and working a full time job all the time, I feel burned out doing all these overall, I really want to work on my own car. The work just keeps coming and i keep raising my price, but they keep coming..lol. Here is one I'm finishing up also. Can't wait to finish this one. It's going back to MN May 15th. Then I'm going to take a break for a bit and spend some time with my family and work on my car and house. By the way...i hate black also...it shows every damn thing.orangejuiced86;18277 said:Thanks! Honestly I am not happy with the gn. I feel I could have cut it down a little flatter, but honestly its a street car and its going to be abused. No sense breaking myself over it.
Good advise. Yeah with 4 girls I'm pretty busy for sure. And your right, most of my customers don't see what i see. It's just bugs me when i find something that i wish i could have done better. I'm just can't figure out why some people will pay more for a paint job then the car is worth. It's nice to know my work is good enough to get a fair price for an overall, and people are willing to drive 600-800 miles to bring me there car and trust that they will get what they are paying for. It usually takes me 4 months to do a strip and paint, I'm only able to work on the car two days a week because i watch my girls most of the week and i work the weekend shift. As i have been getting older I've realized that spending time with my family is very important. But i do like the extra $$$. It's just a balancing act that i need to do in order to do what we do i guess. I have done what you said for my next paint job and they didn't hesitate one bit that i told them i wouldn't be able to take it until September. Sometimes i think about opening my own shop again and doing it for a living....but then i think i really don't want the headaches again and all the time you have to spend in order to make it work, not to mention spending all my time away from my family.I look at some of the work that others are doing on here and i sometimes feel like my work is not anywhere near as good as there's. I'm never 100% happy with it, and i all ways wish i could have done it better, but everyone that i have delivered so far has loved it. Thanks thoSenile Old Fart;19515 said:Simple solution for your dilemma, charge too much and turn out crap work - ROFLOL!
I have found that others do not see the defects that I know are there. We hobbyist painters or the Pros look at it different than the other 99%do.
Be proud of the fact that others see your work in the way they do.
It just shows how well you are doing it.
If you want to take a break from it, tell the next guy that you can't get to it until xx day.
If he says ok, it is a double win, you got a job lined up with some $$ to come in and you have the time off now to work on your own stuff.
But more importantly then having time to work on your own stuff is spending more time with your family.
I spent a LOT of time with my daughter, we snow skiied, camped,sailboarded, motorcycled, attended mc races, car shows, we sewed in the kitchen, we cooked , etc.
She grew up, moved out and got married.
She lives out of state and now I only get to see her once or twice a year. I miss her every day and wish I had found more time for her when she was here, but I had to work to pay to play! She truly was/is my best friend along with being my daughter.
Shine, I told her she ever has an immediate problem she needs help with to call you
orangejuiced86;17756 said:Thanks for the tip on the paper! I've been meaning to ask. I probably do 2 completes like this a year. Most of my stuff is done in pieces.
So true. Just looked at a 68 mustang with eleanor body panels (but painted black and silver) for fiberglass hood repair.. Thinking to myself, I would be beating myself up and probably be redoing a lot of bodywork for free with the amount of ripples and flaws in it, enough a long time bodyman/painter would be picking apart at the car show. But the guy seemed happy. Kind of neat car, but bodywork left something to be desired, and really didn't want to say nothing about someones pride and joy. And he has some color left over for it, and come to find out its Kirker ss under the clear, arghh. Means I'll get to blend with a slow drying converted base and a system I haven't used before.Senile Old Fart;19515 said:Simple solution for your dilemma, charge too much and turn out crap work - ROFLOL!
I have found that others do not see the defects that I know are there. We hobbyist painters or the Pros look at it different than the other 99%do.
Be proud of the fact that others see your work in the way they do.
It just shows how well you are doing it.
If you want to take a break from it, tell the next guy that you can't get to it until xx day.
If he says ok, it is a double win, you got a job lined up with some $$ to come in and you have the time off now to work on your own stuff.
But more importantly then having time to work on your own stuff is spending more time with your family.
I spent a LOT of time with my daughter, we snow skiied, camped,sailboarded, motorcycled, attended mc races, car shows, we sewed in the kitchen, we cooked , etc.
She grew up, moved out and got married.
She lives out of state and now I only get to see her once or twice a year. I miss her every day and wish I had found more time for her when she was here, but I had to work to pay to play! She truly was/is my best friend along with being my daughter.
Shine, I told her she ever has an immediate problem she needs help with to call you