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10-30-2012, 11:22 AM | #1 |
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eclipsisNA Detailed | Restoring Jerez Black - Part II
My favorite client to work with is someone that is genuinely excited about seeing their car after I've completed a paint correction. This client in particular had very high hopes for a car he recently purchased that was severely neglected by its previous owner. The entire car had intense swirling and holograms created by another detailer.
This detail let me try out a tool I hobbled together to help facilitate multiple fixed measurement points for my paint depth gauge. Prior to this, I had always measured paint by locations marked with a single laser point. The inherit problem in this practice is that I wouldn't know whether the amount of paint I was removing was uniform across the entire panel measured by the single point. The solution was to somehow split the laser's beam into multiple paths to create a grid. A grid would allow me track the amount of paint removed across an entire panel. The grid was created by gluing a piece of diffraction grating to a laser pointer with a toggle switch. This is after 56 hours of work spread out over 6 days. Camera: Canon 5D Mark III Lenses: Tamron 24-70 VC, Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS II Trigger system: Odin Phottix Dull, faded paint at delivery Thick brake dust on wheel's barrel Clay bar after wheel was decontaminated After decontamination Heavy swirling on reverse light Reverse light after polishing Side vent removed for polishing Side vent after polishing Passenger side pillar before polishing Passenger side pillar after polishing Available in 720p & 1080p Holograms and swirls on hood Hood after polishing Swirled and faded front-end Front-end after paint correction and application of Chemical Guys J97 Tripod-mounted diffraction laser Multiple measuring points are created on driver side door by diffraction grating Measuring grid points w/ paint depth gauge (available in 720p & 1080p) Buffer trails and swirls on driver side door Driver side door after polishing Left side of driver side door before polishing, right side after polishing |
10-30-2012, 10:28 PM | #4 |
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Nice Eric!! once again you killed it
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10-31-2012, 04:05 PM | #6 |
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Nice work! Jerez Black is a pain in the ass, but you did a really great job with it. My car is Jerez and it came with the usual dealer installed swirls on the hood and holograms on the trunk lid (even though I bought it new). Removing the defects from the hood and trunk lid was a huge chore when I got a paint correction at ~1,000 miles.
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Thank you gents! This one took a ton of work, but it came out beautifully in the end.
Many thanks, yours still looks great in your avatar Quote:
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12-08-2012, 02:01 AM | #11 |
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A job well done. It really show how much time you put into detailing it.
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