fuzzy door jambs
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It depends how picky you are if its possible or not :stoned If you mix up enough paint to do everything at once,lay out the parts like they will hang on the car,keep track of your air pressure when spraying base and use excellent technique.YES IT IS POSSIBLE :dnc I do it all the time with metallics,pearls,tri-stages :pcorn:
Well what’s the worst that can happen? It’s not like I’m afraid to respray lol. I sprayed the fenders off of the nova on horses in their correct position and they matched, so Maybe I’ll try it apart.
I do it all the time, never think twice about it.
[quote=”lph400user” post=34793]I will do it that way if he picks solid red but he was talking metallic green. Will the color match? Metallics “line up”? If painted in pieces? My friend painted our first project together years ago in pieces and we had to do a total respray after assembly cause all the panels were different shades[/quote]
I went a bit mad when I did a “show quality” paint job on one of my own cars. The car was sealed and based up in pieces to ensure complete coverage. It was then assembled and a couple more coats of base were applied to the outside to give me a perfect match between the panels with perfect flake orientation etc. It was then fully stripped again for clearing to ensure there were no tape edges anywhere and no dry spots anywhere, like the hard to reach areas of the jambs etc.
It was a hell of a lot of extra work and I’d want to be paid very well indeed to go that far for a customer :lol1 I’ve done several full paints and colour changes where I’ve just masked up very carefully so that I can open and close the doors, hood etc while painting to give me no tape edges by shooting the jambs and exterior in one go.
Anything is possible, it’s just a case of how far you want to take it, and how well you can think outside of the box to make it happen some times 🙂
I hate the fuzzy look the the sponge tape leaves, i have in the past used the wide tape & sponge tape together, basically back tape the jamb, lay the sponge tape on that, then roll the wide tape back over the sponge tape. Close door. Perfect no edge no fuzzy lines. But thats only for the high pos we work on. 🙂
Ask Jack…hard lining a Jamb is reserved for the good cars, otherwise why waste time masking jambs? :lol
I always do the 2 lines of transition tape method. Well, I don’t actually use transition tape- I use 3/4′ Green tape and roll the edge on my knee. They sell something called an EZ-Edger that will do this for you. http://www.ezedger.com/ It’s a lot cheaper then buying the transition tape and not hard to do. I run the 1st tapeline about 1/4′ in the jamb and the second line closer to the jamb edge, After you seal you just pull the first line of tape off which allows for the base to travel past the sealer line, The end result is no hard-lines and no sealer creep. It takes a little extra work but it’s really not that bad. It’s just a matter of running a second tape line closer to the edge than your main line in the jamb.
Also, painting apart can be done- we actually do this a lot at my shop. As long as you don’t remix, watch your air pressure, and have the panels hung right it will match. It also prevents you from having to do cut-ins separate. We have rotisserie stands that make it possible to do the front and back at the same time. Just make sure you have coverage and it will work on solids or even silvers and golds.
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