Originally Posted by Palmers Customs (Post 372006)

Thank you Wes. To answer your question, the matte black is single stage. You can see and feel an edge between the black and red stripe, I don't know of any technique that would allow you to have a gloss and matte finish next to each other without feeling the edge. I chose the single stage to try to minimize the thickness of the edge. It only took two coats of single stage black. If I did it with a base coat clear coat the stripe would have been thicker, (two coats color and two coats matte clear). I'm not much of a fan for matte black stripes because of the edge it leaves, but the owner insisted on the center stripe being matte black and now that it's all done it was definitely the right call.

Originally Posted by TandL (Post 372462)

Awesome build:thumbsup:

I'm not a body and paint guy so this might be a stupid question, but could you tape off the matte black stripe and then clear coat the paint to build it up to the height of the matte black stripe and then have no "edge"?

Originally Posted by preston (Post 376895)

Great car. Thanks for the photos on building the aluminum trim, a lot of build threads kind of leave out the middling details, going from initial cut to final finish in two photos. I dig the photos with welding beads on them as they give me insight into how the parts are actually mated and hope that even big aluminum beads can be effectively metal finished to perfection.

Its hard to tell but I think you painted all of teh aluminum ?
Otherwise how do you keep it from tarnishing ? does the owner have to brush/polish it once in a while ? I'm pretty sure it looks painted but just curious.

Originally Posted by MoparCar (Post 371984)

Wow, what an awesome build. Your quality of the build is top notch for sure. Thanks for posting it.

Question on your matte black stripe. Is this a matte clear over a black basecoat or an actual matte black paint? Also are you able to lay this "flush" with the red stripe or is it on top of the other paint where you can actually feel the matte black layer on top?
I'm building a Mopar and most had some kind of flat black accents over the years and looking to do a similar accent with minimal ridge/rise over the basecoat and clear.

Thanks-Wes