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SCANGRIP TV COMMERCIAL - SCANGRIP Swirl Finder Lights - Review with pictures by Mike Phillips
I'm happy to say SCANGRIP is a sponsor of our TV show Competition Ready and in 2-3 of the new episodes in season 2 you'll see me or my co-host AJ using the SCANGRIP Sunmatch Swirl Finder Light. Recently Jason at SCANGRIP sent me a collectionof the SCANGRIP lights to test out, use and share with others. This would include these items which is also currently everything from SCANGRIP on the AG store.
In the original review I wrote for the SCANGRIP Sunmatch,
SCANGRIP Sunmatch Swirl Finder Light - Product Review by Mike Phillips
I wrote,
I love this light
And then I explained the three reason why I love this light and some of them have nothing to do with finding swirls. It was an honor to find out that SCANGRIP loved my review so much that they used one of the pictures from my review and what I wrote for one of their Facebook pages,
Innovative Tools
SCANGRIP Sunmatch
SCANGRIP Matchpen Light
SCANGRIP Multimatch
SCANGRIP I-View
SCANGRIP Colourmatch Kit
SCANGRIP Multimatch Tripod Single
SCANGRIP Telescoping Tripod
And I really do love the SCANGRIP Sunmatch swirl finder light so much that I never leave the garage without it. So yes, I'm excited that they joined our team and sponsored our TV show. They also had us produce a TV commercial that you will see aring on Velocity Channel when our TV show air in just a few weeks, so keep your eye out for it.
To showcase their brand and their products for the TV commercial I brought in a dark colored American Muscle Car that has lots of swirls and scratches. I also have a slew of new products to test out so in my normal manner I try to kill as many birds with one stone as possible.
Here's the car, some of you may remember the write-up I created and then posted here on the AGO forum and on my Facebook page
Jay Leno’s Garage Vehicle Wash - Review and How-to by Mike Phillips
(You haven't seen the last of this car for new product reviews)
While Yancy and I were filming the SCANGRIP TV commercial I took a few behind the scenes pictures because not only did we shoot a commercial but I can show you how cool the SCANGRIP Multimatch swirl finder light works.
Here's Yancy getting b-roll for the commercial. These are beauty shots of the products displayed on our workbench.
Here a stepped back a few feet to give you perspective.
After getting the b-roll it's time to move onto showcasing what these lights can do!Here's the car right after I washed it using Jay Lenoj's Vehicle Wash. The finish has a nice shine under florescent lights and that's what fools some people.
To show the masses, that's the people watching our TV show what a swirl finder light does you need to first educate them on what swirls are. Now we, that is all of us in the online car detailing world, (you're in it or now in it just by the fact you're reading this article I've written), now we all know what swirls are... but the masses don't. And you can't really tie what swirls are without also showing what paint looks like WITHOUT swirls.
So to showcase what the SCANGRIP swirl finder lights can do I'm going to place a tape line on the hood of the Camaro and then buff out just the paint on one side of the hood. After this I'll let Yancy take over and do what he does best.
Time is always limited so to remove all of the swirls and scratches fast and 100% I'm using the FLEX 3401, (also a sponsor of our TV show), and a Lake Country 6.5" Blue Hybrid Foam Cutting Pad and a mystery product. In the picture below I've added some product to the face of the pad to prime the pad using the MPT
Now that the pad is primed I've placed what I call working product onto the pad. The reason I call this the working product is because it's' the product I'm actually going to work with, the other product was to lubricate the foam and load it up with abrasives.
No pictures of me buffing on the car as Yancy was busy. But here's Yancy making TV magic!
Notice he's NOT looking down at what he's doing?
That's because he's looking at a big screen TV on the far wall because what's important is what the camera is seeing, not what Yancy is seeing!
Here's before.... ouch! That's ugly!
Here's the light on the middle of the tape-line...
And here's after... should make sense how showing this type of transition from ugly to beautiful paints a picture in the viewer's mind as to exactly what is a SCANGRIP Swirl Finder Light.
As the camera rolls on Yancy continues moving the swirl finder light over the hood. From this angle it looks to us that light is on the middle of the hood but from the camera angel the light is actually on the passenger side fender.
I'm happy to say SCANGRIP is a sponsor of our TV show Competition Ready and in 2-3 of the new episodes in season 2 you'll see me or my co-host AJ using the SCANGRIP Sunmatch Swirl Finder Light. Recently Jason at SCANGRIP sent me a collectionof the SCANGRIP lights to test out, use and share with others. This would include these items which is also currently everything from SCANGRIP on the AG store.
In the original review I wrote for the SCANGRIP Sunmatch,
SCANGRIP Sunmatch Swirl Finder Light - Product Review by Mike Phillips
I wrote,
I love this light
And then I explained the three reason why I love this light and some of them have nothing to do with finding swirls. It was an honor to find out that SCANGRIP loved my review so much that they used one of the pictures from my review and what I wrote for one of their Facebook pages,
Innovative Tools
SCANGRIP Matchpen Light
SCANGRIP Multimatch
SCANGRIP I-View
SCANGRIP Colourmatch Kit
SCANGRIP Multimatch Tripod Single
SCANGRIP Telescoping Tripod
And I really do love the SCANGRIP Sunmatch swirl finder light so much that I never leave the garage without it. So yes, I'm excited that they joined our team and sponsored our TV show. They also had us produce a TV commercial that you will see aring on Velocity Channel when our TV show air in just a few weeks, so keep your eye out for it.
To showcase their brand and their products for the TV commercial I brought in a dark colored American Muscle Car that has lots of swirls and scratches. I also have a slew of new products to test out so in my normal manner I try to kill as many birds with one stone as possible.
Here's the car, some of you may remember the write-up I created and then posted here on the AGO forum and on my Facebook page
Jay Leno’s Garage Vehicle Wash - Review and How-to by Mike Phillips
(You haven't seen the last of this car for new product reviews)
While Yancy and I were filming the SCANGRIP TV commercial I took a few behind the scenes pictures because not only did we shoot a commercial but I can show you how cool the SCANGRIP Multimatch swirl finder light works.
Here's Yancy getting b-roll for the commercial. These are beauty shots of the products displayed on our workbench.
Here a stepped back a few feet to give you perspective.
After getting the b-roll it's time to move onto showcasing what these lights can do!Here's the car right after I washed it using Jay Lenoj's Vehicle Wash. The finish has a nice shine under florescent lights and that's what fools some people.
To show the masses, that's the people watching our TV show what a swirl finder light does you need to first educate them on what swirls are. Now we, that is all of us in the online car detailing world, (you're in it or now in it just by the fact you're reading this article I've written), now we all know what swirls are... but the masses don't. And you can't really tie what swirls are without also showing what paint looks like WITHOUT swirls.
So to showcase what the SCANGRIP swirl finder lights can do I'm going to place a tape line on the hood of the Camaro and then buff out just the paint on one side of the hood. After this I'll let Yancy take over and do what he does best.
Time is always limited so to remove all of the swirls and scratches fast and 100% I'm using the FLEX 3401, (also a sponsor of our TV show), and a Lake Country 6.5" Blue Hybrid Foam Cutting Pad and a mystery product. In the picture below I've added some product to the face of the pad to prime the pad using the MPT
Now that the pad is primed I've placed what I call working product onto the pad. The reason I call this the working product is because it's' the product I'm actually going to work with, the other product was to lubricate the foam and load it up with abrasives.
No pictures of me buffing on the car as Yancy was busy. But here's Yancy making TV magic!
Notice he's NOT looking down at what he's doing?
That's because he's looking at a big screen TV on the far wall because what's important is what the camera is seeing, not what Yancy is seeing!
Here's before.... ouch! That's ugly!
Here's the light on the middle of the tape-line...
And here's after... should make sense how showing this type of transition from ugly to beautiful paints a picture in the viewer's mind as to exactly what is a SCANGRIP Swirl Finder Light.
As the camera rolls on Yancy continues moving the swirl finder light over the hood. From this angle it looks to us that light is on the middle of the hood but from the camera angel the light is actually on the passenger side fender.
