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- Hey, YouTube, this is Donnie.
- And this is Jess,
and welcome to another Eastwood Series video.
And in this video,
we're going to show you the steps
on how to paint a car from start to finish.
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Now, this is actually part two,
because we showed you how to paint
the jambs of the car in the last video,
and we're showing you step-by-step.
And what we're doing in this video,
we're gonna show you how to paint
the jambs of the doors.
We have the doors off the car,
and we're gonna show you
the steps that we took to paint those.
You know, Jess, it really takes a lot of time
to paint a car inside and out.
A lot more than people think.
- Yeah, especially when painting your car
and doing a color change and changing the inside.
So if you're someone out there
that's considering going to a shop and getting an estimate,
don't be shocked at the price that you might get,
because it does take a lot of labor,
and materials are high too,
so be ready for a hefty price tag
whenever you get the total on that.
- All right, everyone, let's get started.
- [Donnie] Like I've mentioned in a lot of videos,
there are a lot of ways to do things.
Now, we're showing you the way that we did this Mustang,
and this ain't necessarily the way we do every job,
but you kinda look at the job, evaluate it,
and determine what you wanna do.
So on this job we was painting the jambs,
and we decided to take all the panels off
and paint the jambs, we're gonna put the doors,
and the hood, and the deck lid back on,
and then paint all the outside at one time.
Now, there may be instances where
you may prefer to have the doors off the hood
and paint it all at one time.
You don't have to mask the jambs,
and you can do the entire panel at the same time.
There's some benefits to that.
But the reason we wanna do this separate
and paint the jambs,
put it all back together and paint the outside
is because we're gonna be putting stripes on this,
and that would make it difficult
to get the stripes aligned just right
if we didn't have the doors on.
So we're gonna go ahead and just paint the jambs off,
put it all together, and then paint the outside.
And another reason that you may wanna paint
the entire car at one time, the outside,
is maybe it's a tri-coat, or candy, or something like that.
And it's really important when you're doing that
to have it all exactly the same,
or you're gonna see a shift in the colors.
So there's a lot of different ways to do this,
but we're gonna show you what we did to this Mustang.
And now, in this video, we're painting the doors.
And what we're doing, we're back-masking the edges,
just to keep over-spray from getting on the outside,
save us a little final sanding when we're all done.
And what I'm doing,
I'm going around the edge and back-masking.
When showing someone how to do something,
when you're learning how to do this,
you can teach in a class
and they're gonna learn a lot that way,
but the best way that I've seen
is just to follow by example.
Do it, let them kinda repeat what you're doing.
Because if you just teach them theory,
they're not really gonna get it.
And if you always do it for them
and don't let them do it,
they're not really gonna grasp the full concept either.
So what I do a lot of times,
after I kinda taught this in class,
I'll just start doing it.
Here, I'm doing one door,
and they're just doing the exact same thing,
or pretty close to what I'm doing to the other door.
And they'll just come over every once in a while
and kinda look to see what I'm doing.
They may have a few questions that they ask,
and sometimes they bring something to my attention,
"Why don't you do this?"
And I'm always open to new ideas.
Sometimes someone that don't know much about it
has a good idea, so you always gotta be open.
You can always learn in this business, or anything, really.
If you think you know everything,
that's just limited you right there.
I know some of the best painters,
they love to learn.
They're the best students because they're still learning
and always open to new ideas.
But we're going around these two doors,
and we're masking the edges.
And like I said, that's just to keep
over-spray from getting on the surface.
And it'll save some sanding,
because it seems like the base coat and clear coats,
sometimes when you sand them they're kinda tacky,
kinda hard to sand.
And it doesn't sand quite like primer when it's fresh.
So we're going around all the edges here,
and you'll notice I go around the outside edge.
And I've also built a back-masked area
for the inside of the door,
because we don't want all the over-spray
going inside on the glass and things like that.
Here you see Becca, she's looking at what I'm doing,
she's asking some questions and I'm explaining.
And this is really how you learn,
you just get in there and do it.
And they're kinda checking it out,
then they're gonna go back over to their door
and kinda repeat what I'm doing.
And again, that just seems like the best way.
Now, with anything,
you hear me say this in about every video,
one of the first things we did before we started masking
is we washed it with soap and water.
Especially doors,
they get a lot of oils and things like that on them.
You wanna make sure all of the silicones and waxes
and things like that are off,
save you a lot of problems with the fish eyes
and problems like that.
We went around, we washed with soap and water,
wiped them them down with a wax and grease remover
just to make sure that any oils,
you know, you lubricate your latches,
and your hinges, and things like that.
You wanna make sure you get all that off,
make sure it's super clean.
And that also helps the tape stick
to the things that you're masking off.
So we've got the outline done with the back-masking.
Now we're just going around and putting paper around it,
and just gonna let the paper drop down to the ground
because the over-sprays gonna go down.
We're gonna be spraying these in a downdraft booth,
so the over-spray's just gonna go down to those filters.
So we went around that, we masked the center off,
and that's just to keep it off the glass
and off the hardware inside.
Got mine masked off, and they finished theirs over there.
Now we have them in the booth,
and we're cleaning them down one more time.
You can never clean enough
when you're doing any type of painting.
It seems like it's repetitive, and it is,
but a good paint job starts with a good cleaning,
making sure all the contaminants are off of there.
Now what we're doing,
we're following the same process that we did
in part one where we was doing the jambs of the car.
We're gonna go around and spray all this with epoxy.
We're using Eastwood's Black Epoxy,
just to seal everything off, provides good adhesion.
I don't think there's a lot of metal on these,
but if there is, epoxy's also excellent
for corrosion protection for metal.
So we're going around, we're spraying these jamb edges.
And we're gonna put one coat of this epoxy on there.
And again, you could use paint sealer.
We're using epoxy as a sealer,
but there's a lot of different options
that you could use here.
We chose this one for this car.
It works good as a sealer.
And like I mentioned, the other option to doing it this way
is to get some different styled door stands
where you can get around the whole door at one time,
and that way you could paint
the inside and outside at one time.
And the benefit to that is
you're not gonna have to mask off the jambs,
and you're not gonna have any lines from the masking
or anything like that.
It makes a really clean job,
and we've done it that way as well.
But for this specific job,
this is the way we decided to do it.
And at this point,
these students have just started spraying.
We've done a few test panels
and jumped right into this car.
So they're just learning how,
and I'll demonstrate a little bit and then let them do it.
I may
show them a few things as we go,
but the way I recommend learning how to paint
is probably a little further than recommended
away from the surface because you have more control.
If you hesitate for a second it's not gonna run.
So I tend to have them spray back a little bit further
and move slower.
Now, as you become more experienced,
you can get closer to the surface and move faster,
and really provide better results that way.
But again, I have seen if you try to teach them that way
to start out with,
it just
ends up getting a lot of runs and things like that.
One of the hardest things when learning how to spray
is the consistency,
getting the distance and the speed right.
If you move closer, you're gonna have to move faster,
and if you're further away
you're gonna have to move slower.
But anyway, this just takes practice,
and that's what we're doing here.
And they're doing an excellent job.
And what we did with this,
we put one coat of epoxy, two coats of base,
and two coats of clear coat
just like we did with the jambs on the car.
Little bit of practice, and that's all this takes.
This car, in upcoming videos,
you're gonna see the process, the steps that we do.
Some of it may seem a little repetitive,
but I wanted to, with this series of videos,
go step through step so that you can see
the entire process.
So there are the steps we took to paint the door jambs,
and we'll show you more of the steps in upcoming videos.
And there they are after we completed them.
Look really nice.
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- And this is Jess, and in this video,
in this video.
- What?
- I screwed it up already.
What, you don't like my little facial expressions?
- What?
- I feel my eyebrows move.
(laughs)
- What?
(mumbles)