Forgot how bad I hated bodywork

I remember now though, and HOW. (put a blob on, sand, reveal low/high spot, add another blob, sand,....sand,....sand,)
I am so damn burn't out, I am almost to the point of compromising the standard of quality I'm gonna settle for just to get it done.
If you are a body man, KUDOS. I have spent at least 40 hours on this nose and hood, and I'm still not done. If I was a "professional" It'd be done.'

I thought there was a bunch of dust from grinding,..Naaaah! now the blue dust is everywhere, and it makes the grinding dust look like clean air.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I've actually been working w/ it for about 10 days now. It has went from no depth perception and 20/70, to marginal DP and about 20/40. Doc says everything is how it should be (no ancillary damage) but my vision may take up to 6 months if it comes back any better than it is. I think it'll get better, It seems to be better every day.

ON a thread related note:

I look to post pics tomorrow or thursday. The entire front end is basically done. I still have to deal w/ the lower front fender (there is a slight mis-match and 5 holes to weld shut since removing the lower front fender skirt)

I'll do the grille tomorrow. I have duplicated the billet grille on an Eleanor mustang. It's heavy though, (relatively speaking) and I still don't know if I'm gonna go w/it.

I do have a body work question, hopefully a "body guy" will read and answer.
I have put the work I've done in etching primer. I plan on adding a high build primer on that to block down, if I come across a small imperfection that I need to add polyester putty to, can I put it on top of the primer? I'm pretty sure I can, just want to be sure.

RacEoHolic330 said:

What you are doing with your car isn't bodywork. It's art. So, it's understandable that it takes so long..

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Ohhhhh it's ART,

Now I know why Van Gogh cut his ear off.

Being an artist makes you CRAZY!


J.K. Thanks....I think?

MAC'n89Blckstng said:

Hey, I do this stuff for a living. Im currently taking a break from an AAR Cuda I'm doing in the shop, an its going to be black. Best way to do body work on a panel is to coat the ENTIRE panel with filler and block it down. If you find a low spot again, coat the entire panel again. Sounds like alot of work, well, it is, but it will come out alot straighter and you wont chase the low/high spots around as you would if you just filled only the low spot.

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Thanks, I've found that out the hard way, I was only filling like 3/4 of the area around the problem, and by the time I got that sanded down to see how the low spot was doing, a new high spot would show up.
DONE with that plan, I found out that if there was a problem, the WHOLE area had to be recoated. The biggest pain in the ass is that I'm using a hand(long) block, I only have an air DA, and I don't have to tell you that I don't use that to get a panel straight.