Mike Phillips
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Pictures + Video of 1932 Ford Highboy Extreme Makeover
Rick arrived around 8:30am in his hot rod 1932 Ford Highboy with a blown 502 Big Block Chevy Engine and it sounds great!
The sun was still low in the sky but I was able to get a few pictures that show the overall dull, hazy appearance the clear coat finish has plus the zig-zag pattern of swirls inflicted by a rotary buffer usually called Rotary Buffer Swirls, Holograms or Buffer Trails.
This is the "Finger Focus Trick" for helping your camera to focus on and capture the swirls in the paint by placing your finger onto the surface close to the area you want to photograph and by doing this you'll give your camera something to focus on and as a result you'll capture the swirls too and they'll be in focus. You can also place a quarter, or a piece of tape, or piece of detailing clay on the paint and accomplish the same thing.
How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera
The lines you see are the tale-tale sign that a rotary buffer has been improperly used.
Same thing, the vertical lines you see here is the trail or swirl pattern, or hologram that is left in the paint and it reflects the direction the buffer was being moved during the last passes.
Backing the 1932 Ford Highboy into Autogeek's Show Car Garage!
Pretty much every square inch of paint was thrashed, that is it had Tracers, Water Spots, Overspray, Buffer Swirls and Arc Scratches.
Tracers Tracers - RIDS - Pigtails - Cobweb Swirls - Rotary Buffer Swirls - Holograms - Water Spots - Bird Drooping Etchings - Micro-Marring
The trunk lid was the worst area so I dampsanded it using a Meguiar's #3000 Unigrit Foam Finishing Disc.
Autogeek's Car of the Week!
Rick arrived around 8:30am in his hot rod 1932 Ford Highboy with a blown 502 Big Block Chevy Engine and it sounds great!
The sun was still low in the sky but I was able to get a few pictures that show the overall dull, hazy appearance the clear coat finish has plus the zig-zag pattern of swirls inflicted by a rotary buffer usually called Rotary Buffer Swirls, Holograms or Buffer Trails.
This is the "Finger Focus Trick" for helping your camera to focus on and capture the swirls in the paint by placing your finger onto the surface close to the area you want to photograph and by doing this you'll give your camera something to focus on and as a result you'll capture the swirls too and they'll be in focus. You can also place a quarter, or a piece of tape, or piece of detailing clay on the paint and accomplish the same thing.
How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera
The lines you see are the tale-tale sign that a rotary buffer has been improperly used.
Same thing, the vertical lines you see here is the trail or swirl pattern, or hologram that is left in the paint and it reflects the direction the buffer was being moved during the last passes.
Backing the 1932 Ford Highboy into Autogeek's Show Car Garage!
Pretty much every square inch of paint was thrashed, that is it had Tracers, Water Spots, Overspray, Buffer Swirls and Arc Scratches.
Tracers Tracers - RIDS - Pigtails - Cobweb Swirls - Rotary Buffer Swirls - Holograms - Water Spots - Bird Drooping Etchings - Micro-Marring
The trunk lid was the worst area so I dampsanded it using a Meguiar's #3000 Unigrit Foam Finishing Disc.
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