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Books About Paint and Auto Body
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How to Paint Your Car on a Budget In How to Paint Your Car On A Budget, author Pat Ganahl unveils dozens of secrets that will help anyone paint their own car. From simple scuff-and-squirt jobs to full-on, door-jambs- and-everything paint jobs, Ganahl covers everything you need to know to get a great-looking coat of paint on your car and save lots of money in the process. This book covers painting equipment, the ins and outs of prep, masking, painting and sanding products and techniques, and real-world advice on how to budget wisely when painting your own car. It’s the most practical automotive painting book ever written!
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Custom Painting Author Pat Ganahl uses 416 color photos to show you how to do a variety of custom painting applications and techniques. From stripes to scallops to flames, candies to pearls to ’flakes, fades to fogs to blends, this book has it all. With numerous examples demonstrating how various custom paint jobs are designed and applied, this book provides a vast wealth of insight and is intended to help you to make a more-informed choice among the many options for personalizing your vehicle with custom paint. Custom Painting not only tells, but also shows you how to apply these various looks with helpful how-to tips so that you can understand them and decide what to paint on your next special project.
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The Paint and Body Handbook In this book over 450 illustrations and easy to read text are used to explain how to repair dents and rust, replace body panels, repair aluminum and fiberglass, perform sectioning, use lead and plastic filler, weld patches and panels, shape sheet metal, perform spot repairs and color matching, prepare the surface for final paint, choose paint supplies and equipment and apply top coats, graphics and pin stripes. A full color- troubleshooting guide helps you avoid or correct final paint problems like blistering, blushing, bleeding, checking, and orange peel. Whether you're repairing a small ding restoring an entire car, you’ll find this book to be the most complete hands on auto body resource available.
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Price: $18.95 |
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The Automotive Paint Handbook More than just a book on how to paint your car, the Automotive Paint Handbook is a comprehensive resource that covers the entire field of automotive paint technology, from types of paint and how to perform a paint job, to advanced OEM factory paint techniques, paint care and inspection. For years, paint professionals from companies such as DuPont have used this book for training. Now fully revised and updated, this best selling book has the latest information available from the paint industry. All information is presented in layman’s terms and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos and line drawings. There’s even a full color paint troubleshooting chart and a comprehensive paint industry glossary.
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Price: $18.95 |
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How to Paint Your Car
Everything you need to know and everything you need to do to have perfect paint on your specialty car. Whether it's a concours-quality restoration or a ground-pounding hot rod, this book will fit your painting interests. The auto body and paint business is changing at an incredibly fast rate, mainly in response to environmental rules and regulations. This book emphasizes what parts of the job a hobbyist can, and should, do himself and what should be left to the pros.
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Monster Garage: How to Custom Paint
The painting techniques used by the established professionals on the popular Discovery Channel series, Monster Garage, are brought to life in this illustrated how-to book. Step-by-step photos and instructions take you through the paint process, from planning the job and applying the base coat through to applying the finishing custom touches. This book also includes how to: airbrushing custom graphics, pin striping, painting flames (regular and tribal), and custom-painting motorcycle and racing helmets.
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How to Paint Flames Custom paint jobs are more popular than ever, and no form of custom painting is "hotter" than the flame job. This book will explain how to design the best-looking flames for a particular vehicle, how to transfer that design to the vehicle, and how to apply the paint. The process of painting the flames will be broken into major segments so that the reader can go as far as they feel their skills and confidence will allow. No other books focus exclusively on the art of painting flames. Color photography and photo heavy approach boost the visual appeal of the book.
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Pro Paint & Body This book is a complete resource guide that covers the entire spectrum of automotive paint and body equipment, and body repair techniques. You’ll find information on assessing a project car for damage and estimated repairs, disassembly and paint stripping, repairing dents including the latest hammer and dolly tools and techniques, leading, welding, adhesives and plastic fillers, latest spray guns and spray techniques, current paint technology, body prep for final paint, color sanding, polishing, custom colors and custom paint techniques, and much, much more.
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Price: $18.95
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Chopping Tops: A Practical Hot Rodder's Guide
Learn how professionals customize cars by chopping the top! Few modifications change the appearance of a vehicle as much as a well executed top chop. In this information-packed guide, Larry O'Toole shows you how to prepare, mark out and accomplish a top chop on a range of vehicles. Learn how and where to measure for the chop, how to build an internal frame for the vehicle so that everything stays in alignment while the roof is off, and how to modify the windshield glass to suit the new roofline. Hundreds of step-by-step photos lay out every step of the process.
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Ultimate Auto Detailing Projects
This book explains all the techniques and products needed, lays out detailed schedules, and explains the cost in time of properly detailing a car. By allowing readers to stop the progression of projects wherever or whenever they wish, this book appeals to a wide range of readers and the crisp, all-color photography demonstrates the results that can be achieved through proper detailing and helps illustrate the techniques that anyone can use to make their car look as good as new.
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