bodymen What part is the most boring for you.

Right now In working on hinges ,
I know you guys know that its all boring ,But I need some motivation......

 

I am no body man so I dont know if my vote is going to count or not...But sanding sucks

 

Vonn your 100 percent right.......I dont know why guys are so afraid of it ,Mix the dough and spread evenly sand with longboard and then recoat entire panel till you have crisscross even sanding ,Low spots you can see or feel .Thats bodywork.....Chasing scratches is a different issue ,Easily remedied.....Yes Im that bored .I remember 20 some years ago ,I use to do cars all by hand longboard ....

 

I'm in the middle of block sanding right now for the third go around, so I'd say block sanding.

 

I have only done a little paint and bodywork it is a mess fore sure, using your fingers and thumbs to sand in those tight little contures untill they are raw, SUCKS!

BTW, the painter allways gets the credit for a bueatiful paint job, not the body man.

 

All bodywork sucks.

 

I started this thread for encouragement ................I know you guys are right .....I was cleaning some squeegees tonight and I have cuts on my hands and that laquer thinner sure as hell burns in those cuts .Ill be back later mud dryed .3rd coat on 2 hinges .....

 

Yeah that lacquer thinner will find those cuts.I'd have to say sanding also,but if you want it slick you gotta do it.

 

All those hours of sanding and filling then doing it again are forgotten when you finally roll it out in the sun and see how good it looks. I'm painting my '40 Chevy now and it is taking forever or so it seems..

 

Sanding, sanding, sanding!!!!

 

Painting is the most fun and scariest time ....

 

i hate mixing paint


skull

 

^^ x2 ^^

 

Sanding is the most boring, not the hardest, but most boring.

 

The big stuff is easy, it's the little detail stuff that can get tedious...especially when you think you're almost there, only to find a flaw you can't live with that results in grinding, dolly work, and completely re-working the panel.

When working on a project needing a lot of work or with a lot of mods, I find the work piece will "disappear" on me after a while. I usually shoot a fresh coat of primer on at this point and start blocking again.....when I'm 98% confident, I'll shoot a coat of good automotive single stage black to find those last few flaws I'm missing. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, but often I stand back and scratch my head and try to figure "how'd I miss that?"

 

I always use two different color primers Then block

 

Blocking with a longboard is fun, blocking jambs is fun, it just takes too long, especially when you get to the 400 paper.....

I wear latex gloves whenever I am doing ANY kind of paint and body including sanding. I got sick of having cut up, busted up, dirty ass stained hands.

 

Yep, latex gloves rock. Keeps stuff off your hands and the greasy mitts of the bodywork.

 

gotta agree with everyone who said sanding is the most boring...it was when I first started thirty years ago and it still is....but all the effort you put into sanding and smoothing till it's perfect is what makes the difference between a good, great or fan-freaking-tastic finish
and the gloves are the way to go...finally people don't know at first glance I'm a bodyman....lol

 

I got to the point where i start wearing rubber gloves cause that shit hurts!! but just think faster you get it done the faster you wont have to deal with it!!!!

 

The part I was working on earlier were the speedway budget hinges .There casted crudely and i had to weld the pin in .The head started spinning ,Id reply to the other guys thread about installing these hinges ,But Ive had enough of these hinges for one night ..... I just hope this weekend Ill finish a door ...............

 

i enjoy blocking. but if you have to do it for days on end it gets old. tedious prep work in tight areas and fine detail work is hard.

 

id go with sanding too.. i spent almost a week in a trunk one time, that was horrable, then i had to mask it to mock dried paint like the car had been dipped in the factory, think i might have nightmares tonight because of the thought..

 

The most boring part? Waiting to get paid!

 

Blocking primer-the most boring . Hated it even when I was working on other peoples cars and getting paid to do it. But I've got a buddy who loves it, says he just gets into some kind of zen meditation thing while he's doing it.

 

Use to know that feeling .I gave up working on other peoples cars long ago.Most of them were deadbeats....Now I stick to brake jobs and some mechanicals ,As a side job...

 

I'm the solo prep guy for my shop right now. So 45-50 hrs a week is spent block sanding, soft blocking, scuffing, taping, bagging etc etc etc. All of my fingertips are burned through and bloody, but I am used to it by now.

I HATE cutting and sharpening body lines. High/low spots too....burn through primer, reprime, sand, find pinholes, fill with spot putty, burn back to body work again...UGH.

 

the worst is the final perfecting part. I like getting up to the first mud/ primer stage. maybe guide coat it and give it a couple passes with the long board.

beyond that I'd rather someone else did it.

SPARKS NOT DUST... that's my motto.

 

Yes it does, esspecially that "anal retentive" wet sanding for the perfect paint job. But when done right, it is absolutly gorgeous.

 

Waiting on bondo to dry then primer then paint then color sand and buff !!and buff!!