Body Work tips

The Steps

by Tyler Krause December 15, 2019

These are the steps of the body work and paint process. This is assuming the project has already been stripped to bare metal, and all metal fabrica...

Why True Blox Exists

by Tyler Krause December 07, 2019

Why did True Blox sanding blocks get started? It actually wasn't really planned. It goes back to about 12-13 years ago, and being introduced to u...

Checking Your Work

by Tyler Krause November 30, 2019

Getting body work down the side of a whole car exceptionally straight takes more than using the right sanding blocks, and more than just checking h...

Using 40 Grit

by Tyler Krause November 26, 2019

Block sanding body filler could be broken up into 3 different stages; roughing in with 40 grit, straightening it with 80 grit, and finalizing it fo...

The Grits

by Tyler Krause November 23, 2019

Using the proper grits when sanding polyester primer matters. Here are the steps, and their purpose. 100 grit. This grit is to sand the textur...

When to prime twice

by Tyler Krause November 21, 2019

Ideally, every project would get polyester primed once. In reality that doesn’t always happen. Some tips to help get the body work to a point for...

Is it the Clear?

by Tyler Krause November 16, 2019

Have you ever had this struggle when try to wet sand paint completely flat? You’re wet sanding for what seems like forever, and no matter what you...

Starting with 100

by Tyler Krause November 15, 2019

Polyester primer is a must use product. It provides a very good foundation for the paint process; it doesn’t shrink, it’s very solid, very low solv...

Painting over Polyester

by Tyler Krause November 12, 2019

It’s a common question, can you paint over polyester primer? Or, does polyester primer need to be primed with a urethane primer? The answers? P...

The Craft of Block Sanding

by Tyler Krause November 07, 2019

Block sanding does have a basic set of guidelines to follow, but it is far more than following a procedure. Going from good body work to really gre...

Reality Check

by Tyler Krause November 05, 2019

What’s reality? Sometimes, getting body work and paint correct is an ass kicking. It might come across as ‘easy’ when breaking down some technique...

An Important Sanding Technique

by Tyler Krause October 30, 2019

There is one rule with block sanding that has pretty much no exception. This rule is the direction a sanding block is used; more importantly, how i...