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Old 02-09-2016, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by John Buchtenkirch View Post
Mike, nice professionally done video. I do the paper patterns with the magnets and fingers cut just like you do but never would use a radius gauge. Once I have the paper fingers lying flat on the panel I dust coat them with fast drying black Krylon. Yes, all my magnets do have many coats of Krylon on them. When I lay my paper pattern on the sheet I can tell by the un-painted parts of the fingers how deep to pull the shrinks plus the width of the un-painted paper gives you a pretty good idea of how much to shrink & where. I mark ¾” out from where the un-painted portion of the finger stops because I learned at Scott Knight’s class that thumb nail dies will shrink ¾” out in front of where you stop going into the panel.

I also mark blank cutting lines with pin-striping tape and sometimes even use flexible magnetic guides for pin-stripers but again I just dust coat them with dark Krylon. I only need the accuracy of a scribe line when I’m joining 2 panels together. ~ John Buchtenkirch
This thought came to me several hours after my last response... I like your spray paint trick but... That only works for Shrink and not Stretch or when there is neither and only form put into the panel. Having perfect accuracy in the light lines is critical. There is a big difference in making a panel that looks right and is right. Its the difference between building 50k-100k cars and upwards of million dollar+ cars. With that said... Ive worked of 10 million dollar cars that are full of puddy
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