Nightmare on Detail Street

DetailKitty said:
I haven't had a chance to really check out the vehicle since it was worked on.... HOWEVER:

I helped out a friend and coworker this afternoon fixing some serious scuffs he had gotten on his Jeep while his wife was helping him remove the hardtop. It came out pretty good. If you look really hard you can see some indentation in the clear. Otherwise, the average person would not notice anything. My friend was thrilled.

Well the "detailer" came in the garage while I was working. He asks what I am doing so I tell him. I (at that moment) was using my Rupes Mini which was the PERFECT size for the area I was working (which was the back corners of the Jeep between the gas tank door and where the soft top starts). He right away says, "I have a full size Dewalts if you want to use it"....

Soooooooooo I want to use a rotary with a 7" pad on it for a space that barely fits my Rupes Mini pads?????? I tell him no thank you, and that I like to use the proper size machine for the job.

He comes over and looks at my stuff... I had also brought my Flex with a 4.5" backing plate on it just in case. He says I have "some neat looking kits". Then he talked about how he used to detail for the last 8 years. SO at least it's not 20 years. But he described it as "removing road paint from cars and removing stickers".

So from this conversation I'm gonna stick with my initial thought that this kid has no idea how to really detail. Nice kid, but seems to be one of those guys that grabs the biggest, "baddest" machine he can find and goes to town with it thinking he's doing the right thing. Perhaps I can talk more with him and see if we can "swap ideas"... maybe I can give him some good information :xyxthumbs:
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Great post, Monica.

I guarantee you he is googling FLEX & Rupes as we speak. :laughing:
 
DetailKitty said:
So from this conversation I'm gonna stick with my initial thought that this kid has no idea how to really detail. Nice kid, but seems to be one of those guys that grabs the biggest, "baddest" machine he can find and goes to town with it thinking he's doing the right thing.
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lol I'm sure he's thinking the same about you. We are a small niche in the industry. Most "detailers" are high volume guys who depend on speed to pay the bills. Grab a rotary, an 8" wool pad, and some rocks in a bottle. Why would anyone use thousands of dollars of european tools and take sooooo long? He can knock that job out in an hour.
 
Ernie Mccracken said:
lol I'm sure he's thinking the same about you. We are a small niche in the industry. Most "detailers" are high volume guys who depend on speed to pay the bills. Grab a rotary, an 8" wool pad, and some rocks in a bottle. Why would anyone use thousands of dollars of european tools and take sooooo long? He can knock that job out in an hour.
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I was just saying that detailing is an art.... it's graceful and you must finesse your machine, your products, and your paint. It's an art form.
 
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