A little background story:
So I had an opportunity to work on this 1954 Ford F100. My coworker had worked on this for 8 years. For the past two years, He's been putting it together piece by piece finally. When he got this truck, it was in pieces but this truck probably have more original parts than any other ones you see. He wanted a daily driver classic truck, so he built from the bottom up. Anyways, He finally finished it one day and decided to drive to work for us to check it out, and the first thing I saw was the $5k paint job he spent on it. It was full of swirls and holograms, so I opened my mouth and ask him if he would like to hire me. After some explanation about the condition of the paint, he decided that he would. So I'll let the pictures speak for itself.....
Before Shots:
Looks pretty good from this far.
You can see the holograms on the paint when the sun hits it directly.
So we set up for yesterday to work on the truck. He even set up the canopy for me when I got there. He pretty much left me along for about 4 hours while him and his wife went to a Saturday service so I had some time to do some quick test spots.
If you look closely, where my finger is, is where i had a masking tape going through the middle, so the area farther away is where i used the rotary and took out about 90% of the swirls.
Before Rotary. So I started after what I saw could be done. I like the way the door panel was reflecting so I stopped to take a quick photo.
After Rotary. Notice the flash from the camera became just a dot and not spread out like the previous picture.
All Buffed out!
I really liked this shot. The reflection of the garage and my rotary was actually better in person but the tailgate came out really good.
After PC w/#80 on W8006 Pad
Look at the reflection!
So I had an opportunity to work on this 1954 Ford F100. My coworker had worked on this for 8 years. For the past two years, He's been putting it together piece by piece finally. When he got this truck, it was in pieces but this truck probably have more original parts than any other ones you see. He wanted a daily driver classic truck, so he built from the bottom up. Anyways, He finally finished it one day and decided to drive to work for us to check it out, and the first thing I saw was the $5k paint job he spent on it. It was full of swirls and holograms, so I opened my mouth and ask him if he would like to hire me. After some explanation about the condition of the paint, he decided that he would. So I'll let the pictures speak for itself.....
Before Shots:
Looks pretty good from this far.
You can see the holograms on the paint when the sun hits it directly.
So we set up for yesterday to work on the truck. He even set up the canopy for me when I got there. He pretty much left me along for about 4 hours while him and his wife went to a Saturday service so I had some time to do some quick test spots.
If you look closely, where my finger is, is where i had a masking tape going through the middle, so the area farther away is where i used the rotary and took out about 90% of the swirls.
Before Rotary. So I started after what I saw could be done. I like the way the door panel was reflecting so I stopped to take a quick photo.
After Rotary. Notice the flash from the camera became just a dot and not spread out like the previous picture.
All Buffed out!
I really liked this shot. The reflection of the garage and my rotary was actually better in person but the tailgate came out really good.
After PC w/#80 on W8006 Pad
Look at the reflection!
