Mike Phillips
07-18-2011, 08:38 AM
1971 GTO - Wetsand, Cut and Buff (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/38636-1971-gto-wetsand-cut-buff.html)
About a week ago we had a 1971 GTO that had just been freshly painted dropped off at our studio for use as a demo car for our Saturday Detailing 102 Class which goes over wetsanding by hand and by machine and then how to use a rotary buffer to cut and polish the paint.
Here's that thread,
Pictures & Comments from July 10th, 2011 Sunday Detailing 102 - Advanced Class (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pictures-sunday-detailing-102-advanced-class/38253-pictures-comments-july-10th-2011-sunday-detailing-102-advanced-class.html)
Instead of using demo hoods we have an actual car. It was painted Wednesday night and has a lot of orange peel which should really give our students a great experience learning how to hand sand and machine dampsand.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand001.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand002.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand003.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand004.jpg
The students from that class did an awesome job of sanding and buffing the paint and more importantly learned the techniques required to undertake a full wetsanding project especially with a car that had extreme orange peel
The goal of the class is not to make each person an expert, that's not realistic in a one=day class. The goal is to bring up each person's comfort level with the terms, products and techniques used for wetsanding paint and using rotary buffers.
Trying to go from incredibly horrendous orange peel to a show car finish in 6-7 hours with a group of people that are all new to the wetsanding process is a worthy goal but realistically, after the class there was still a lot of sanding to the lower panels left to do and a thorough compounding to make sure all the sanding marks have been removed.
Over the weekend I finished all the sanding, cutting and polishing and I'm happy to say the horrendous orange peel has been removed, the paint polished to a high gloss and she's ready to be returned to the owner. Here's a few pictures before the car leaves today...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl01.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl02.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl03.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl04.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl05.jpg
next...
:)
About a week ago we had a 1971 GTO that had just been freshly painted dropped off at our studio for use as a demo car for our Saturday Detailing 102 Class which goes over wetsanding by hand and by machine and then how to use a rotary buffer to cut and polish the paint.
Here's that thread,
Pictures & Comments from July 10th, 2011 Sunday Detailing 102 - Advanced Class (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pictures-sunday-detailing-102-advanced-class/38253-pictures-comments-july-10th-2011-sunday-detailing-102-advanced-class.html)
Instead of using demo hoods we have an actual car. It was painted Wednesday night and has a lot of orange peel which should really give our students a great experience learning how to hand sand and machine dampsand.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand001.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand002.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand003.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/1971GTODampSand004.jpg
The students from that class did an awesome job of sanding and buffing the paint and more importantly learned the techniques required to undertake a full wetsanding project especially with a car that had extreme orange peel
The goal of the class is not to make each person an expert, that's not realistic in a one=day class. The goal is to bring up each person's comfort level with the terms, products and techniques used for wetsanding paint and using rotary buffers.
Trying to go from incredibly horrendous orange peel to a show car finish in 6-7 hours with a group of people that are all new to the wetsanding process is a worthy goal but realistically, after the class there was still a lot of sanding to the lower panels left to do and a thorough compounding to make sure all the sanding marks have been removed.
Over the weekend I finished all the sanding, cutting and polishing and I'm happy to say the horrendous orange peel has been removed, the paint polished to a high gloss and she's ready to be returned to the owner. Here's a few pictures before the car leaves today...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl01.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl02.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl03.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl04.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1206/GTOPearl05.jpg
next...
:)