What do you mean by this. I thought you guys were talking about whatever line he uses and I believe this is a DuPont color. I just bought some but haven't cracked the seal. Lemme know.

I meant whatever the 4th dimesion has in black for GM black

I cant beleive that people dont complain about the straightline scratches you have when blocking the paint either ...........but to each his own.
I dont have an expensive camera here at the shop. I only use the one I use for the insurance work I do.
The picture I threw on here is a close up of a curved section of the car you can see the reflection is clean.

Look all this keyboard clipping of each others work is BS. The chance of this happening is so slim it wont happen, but if all of us here brought our work and parked it side by side, probably nobody could tell the difference in the paint jobs. We each have opinions on which way is correct. I only stated the thing about the fat lady ass remark because in my experience (doing this since 1982) the reason that happens is because the person running the DA was inexperienced. Tell me Im wrong???? That was not a dig at anyone just the facts as I have seen them in the last 20+ years.

One thing Im surprized at is noone has said this so I will. DAing a car with 1200 will not take off enough paint / clear to make fat lady ass marks. Unless the DA is up on edge. (thats not the correct way to use it anyway) And then 3000 that really doesnt take anything off either. ...And if you are DAing that way, you need to put the DA down and step away from the finish.

For the record ,all the work we do here gets no DA to it untill polish time. All cars are hand blocked (several times all the way to the sealer/paint time). I could see real fast that a DA could make fat lady ass marks in the paint job if it was used prior to paint. Thats why we dont do it. I have done cars and they are all over the US. Some of the work I did is now 20 years old, back then we used different materials. Todays materials are made for production shops, thus they have their own temperments. How people use them is how the end result looks once completed. My rule is the smoother you shoot it the less you buff. Primers included.

I can only vouch for the work we do here and it has been far suprerior than anyone in about a 200 mile radius that I have seen. If anyone wants to tour the shop here and your in the KC/ Topeka area sometime come on over. I tour all the time for travelers. I am part of 2 national car clubs and people traveling thru tour all the time. I have a brand new Morton building and a 30x30 paint room we shoot them in. In the mean time some of us need to step back and think about the slaps that are being thrown over a keyboard since you'all really dont know what really goes on....in anyones shop.

This is the only place a D/A belongs on a finished car :yes:

http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/da.jpg

whatever:rolleyes:

Yup, a DA will ruin one quick. Rat tails everywhere, burn through edges, make the clear uneven, wavy. Really the cheaters way.

Maybe I'm ignorant, but I'd never dream of using a DA with any grit paper on a painted and cleared surface. That's just me though.

Now, does anyone have any other recommendations? ;) We've gotten a little off topic. Thanks!!

2guys 1 week 80 hrs At 50 hr 4000.00
2guys 2 weeks 160 hrs at 50hr 8000.00
that's at only $50 hr and most shops are more then that

Now add paint Your looking at 6-10 grand

Remember the famous saying this isn't a show car I don't want a show paint job ..Till you get your car back and you start picking it apart and saying what about this and that. Then your telling everyone how you got the shaft and that guy S**ks...But remember you didn't want a show paint job

Good luck and remember were the DA belongs

lol, you have no idea what fat ladys arse is, lol. It is or has nothing to do with da marks. then you come on here and start acting like you know what your talking about.

p.s pete, that pic was great. te only time my da's get used is when stripping or polishing metal

anyways...... i was gonna ask what you guys think of the Sharpe brand of guns. The razor model in particular compared to some of the devilbiss or iwata guns?