Body Work tips

Part 3; A Checklist

by Tyler Krause March 19, 2019

I skipped over some important things! Before any body work can begin, it is important to have the vehicle set up properly. The closer it is to ...

Mindset vs Skill Set

by Tyler Krause March 12, 2019

This latest project we finished at The Refinery, a 1932 Ford Victoria, is a project that was definitely a challenge. There was only one requiremen...

Part 2: Where to Start

by Tyler Krause March 05, 2019

A properly set up foundation is extremely important for the absolute best results. No matter how tempting, don’t just dive right into doing body wo...

Part 1: What are We Looking for?

by Tyler Krause February 13, 2019

This is Part One of a series that will go through the entire process of body working, painting & finishing a car at a high level. But fir...

How to know if your Body Work is straight.

by Tyler Krause June 14, 2018

When doing high quality complete body work and paint jobs, getting the body work really dialed in and straight is very important. The goal is to lo...

Foundations of Body Work

by Tyler Krause June 11, 2018

Here are a few big ideas for doing body work, in the context of the entire vehicle needing to be body worked. There’s an endless list of tips and w...

Why Even Try

by Tyler Krause June 04, 2018

When doing paint and body work, things go wrong & problems arise sometimes for no good reason. It happens to absolutely everyone. When doing as...

How rigid of a block?

by Tyler Krause May 31, 2018

Using a more rigid sanding block does not equal better results. As a matter of fact, it's not very often at all a very rigid sanding block is need...

A Blocking Basic

by Tyler Krause May 30, 2018

Use two hands!! One of the most basic things to start doing great body work, is to hold onto the sanding block properly; with both hands, whether ...

Really straight body work

by Tyler Krause May 02, 2018

The goal of doing great body work is to be able to look down the panel or vehicle after it’s all done and not see any ripples or waves in the panel...

This is the best Polyester Primer

by Tyler Krause April 20, 2018

Ok, I’m not going to actually say what the ‘best’ polyester primer is. Better yet, this post is about the factors that make a polyester primer good...

Time vs. Quality

by Tyler Krause April 19, 2018

Quality takes time, there is no way around that. Since doing great work already consumes so much time, it’s very important to not have any addition...