Learning to paint....
I started off by going to a local vocational school. My family owns a decent size body shop and my intentions were to work there after tech school. I was 18 when I started. I would go to school during the day and then to the body shop in the afternoon and evenings to work. One day I came in and they said there was a car in the booth ready to spray. It was an old Ltd complete paint job. All the guys left and they said paint it. So after about 4 hours it was done. The next day they came in and said they only took 2 nibs out of it.... well thats probably why it took me 4 hours to spray it! After that I started painting daily for the entire shop. I sprayed for about 6 body guys. Since then I've worked in 18 shops... I like to move around. And I have sprayed anything and everything including water borne. Last year I stepped out of the paint booth to an office roll but still do dome stuff at home. I painted close to 600 cars a year for a long period of time. Can't imagine how many cars I've actually painted. At 40 years old I still miss it but the body was saying enough.
I started off by going to a local vocational school. My family owns a decent size body shop and my intentions were to work there after tech school. I was 18 when I started. I would go to school during the day and then to the body shop in the afternoon and evenings to work. One day I came in and they said there was a car in the booth ready to spray. It was an old Ltd complete paint job. All the guys left and they said paint it. So after about 4 hours it was done. The next day they came in and said they only took 2 nibs out of it.... well thats probably why it took me 4 hours to spray it! After that I started painting daily for the entire shop. I sprayed for about 6 body guys. Since then I've worked in 18 shops... I like to move around. And I have sprayed anything and everything including water borne. Last year I stepped out of the paint booth to an office roll but still do dome stuff at home. I painted close to 600 cars a year for a long period of time. Can't imagine how many cars I've actually painted. At 40 years old I still miss it but the body was saying enough.
