Finding a painter

[Woody]

i'm looking for somebody to throw a basic paint job on my ski because the guy who owned it before me tried painting it white...without doing the proper prep work so its now chipping off all over the place.

anyhow...do i go to my local autobody guy? or what can i google to find painters in my area? i'm not looking for a custom super dee dooper paintjob cause this is gonna be a surf battle boat, but i dont want a clunker.

thanks,
woody

 

[Woody]

and what am i looking at for cost...
maybe like the outside a solid white or color
and the engine compartment black (which i may just do with a rattlecan)

 

[chips]

well i work for a car dealership and i just called the body shop we send all of our cars to and he did my last ski for 200 bucks. so yea id just call up a body shop you know of.

 

[Woody]

thanks...i just sent you an email by the way on the other thing.




lol...i just jacked my own thread


did u do any prep work or did they charged u 200 from top to bottom

 

[GIL]

A local auto body shop will be fine as long as u choose a late model auto color. This is the way to keep it cheap. I do all the prep work and my local paint and body guy does the paint and finish work for 200.00

 

[snowxr]

Same here. I use a local body shop, and do all the prep sanding myself.

 

[Woody]

now...the ski was just returfed by this guy as well...any suggestions for geting a decent paint job without the chipping without having to remove the turf

 

[GIL]

now...the ski was just returfed by this guy as well...any suggestions for geting a decent paint job without the chipping without having to remove the turf

Ah-now the fun really begins-you must remove all turf and turf glue to do it right. Or pay them about 50 per hour to do it for u. I have been removing all of my old turf and glue ALL DAY today!

 

[Maxumflux]

Ah-now the fun really begins-you must remove all turf and turf glue to do it right. Or pay them about 50 per hour to do it for u. I have been removing all of my old turf and glue ALL DAY today!

removing turf and glue is a walk in the park on a nice day compared to removing those dam stickers!!!

 

[Waternut]

If it was just returfed, why would you remove it just to paint? Mask it off and tell them to spray away.

$200 and you're getting mighty close to buying your own air compressor and cheap paint sprayer. I told mcdog I would spray his ski for free if he did the prep work and I did spray the bottom of pabloescobars ski for free. Spraying is nothing. Takes almost as much time to clean the gun as it does to empty it.

The red, white, and yellow ski was a spray can job that lasted about 2 years. The blue ski was the second time I ever used my air sprayer and it looks good and has held up great.

 

[McDog]

Ah-now the fun really begins-you must remove all turf and turf glue to do it right. Or pay them about 50 per hour to do it for u. I have been removing all of my old turf and glue ALL DAY today!

What! No more lime and orange sherbet ski?

 

[GIL]

What! No more lime and orange sherbet ski?

Who said I was changing color combos??? lol

Actually the sublime is staying and everything else is changing.

 

[Woody]

I told mcdog I would spray his ski for free if he did the prep work and I did spray the bottom of pabloescobars ski for free.

what grit sandpaper should sand i go with? 200? 300?

 

[Woody]

also...waternut, is that nose on that squarenose a custom made one or like this one from blowsion http://blowsion.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=YA95CO113C

 

[Waternut]

It's a custom made nose that is shown in my SN build. I started with 60 grit sandpaper to tear into the gelcoat and then I think I used either 100 or 120 grit sandpaper before painting but I used it on a dual action sander so it's not as damaging and ends up pretty smooth actually.