I think the issue at hand is Wray is so focused on putting out content for his YouTube income that you see content just to see content. When Jeff Moss or Peter Tommasini post a video it is to show someone correct methods and to help them understand underlying principles to build on.
Here's something I've posted before, and this seems a good spot to drop it again..
Dave, I would offer an alternative to your last comment. There is more than one way to get to town for sure. Optimally we want to find the one with less pot holes, traffic jams, or U-turns. To learn something incorrectly is the most detrimental to a person that cannot recognize those incorrect methods. To not understand why your first effort does not look the same as Wray's sample magically appeared to be after the commercial break without explanation leaves the novice frustrated and still stuck in a pothole.
So I would suggest that there are many ways to get to town. If we can find the one with less U-turns or wrong directions, we should follow that path... In the early days of the internet and the initial metalshaping presence, many people were sheep. Someone would invent a widget, show it moving some metal, and everyone would oooo and ahhhh over it and have to build their own, even though they still do not understand the principles. Wray was in the midst of this, and it was basically people fumbling along to see what worked and what didn't. Watching his videos now, it's obvious he missed out on some of the basic principles that Peter Tommasini and Jeff Moss learned in their youth as they apprenticed under old world craftsmen. Personally, I've seen enough of Wray's mis-steps in his videos that I wouldn't walk across the street to attend one of his classes if it were free. I'd rather take a more direct path to town.
The thing I like the most about this forum is that you get solid advice on any painting methods by people who have been there, done that, and do it every day. Any mis-steps and someone is quick to guide you to a correct method so you can have some of the most awesome results in paintwork. This is why even guys who refer to themselves as "backyard hacks" can produce outstanding results. Please don't take anything Chris or I have said as a personal attack on Wray. It only follows the same practice on this forum that we'd like to help the members get a better understanding of the most efficient way possible in your journey to town. If that means steering someone toward a better resource for learning something new, to learn the principles properly for a better understanding, then that's all it is, nothing more. If a person can't recognize the fatal errors Wray is making or not explaining in his videos, I think he's the wrong path for them.metallic.
Pay attention in particular to what Peter Tommasini writes in that thread. There are several other threads on that forum of the ridiculousness.
