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Old 09-02-2014, 05:46 PM   #2
Mike Phillips
 
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Default Re: Pictures: 1960 Glastron - Wetsand, Cut & Buff at Marine31Online.com

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Here's how the Glastron project arrived. Bert and Mike from Ship Shape TV built a wooden jig on a boat trailer to hold both the Hull and the Top Cap at the same time in order to transport the hull and top cap to Marine 31 and only have to make one trip.






We moved the hull and the top cap off the trailer and onto fender stands to film the sanding and buffing segments for Ship Shape TV.





Here's Steve, one of the cameramen filming the opening with John Greviskis



For the TV show, John, Bert, Steve, Mike and me all block sanded, then machine sanded, then compounded, polished and waxed the top cap and while we did these steps the cameramen would film each step for the TV show.

The above was all done on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fast forward to Thursday, my team of guys showed up at 2:00pm and we started in on the hull and also re-sanding any of the areas that still had orange peel on the top cap.

Because we knocked out most of the grunt work on the top cap while filming the TV show and because it has a lot less real-estate than the hull, the below pictures are shown in the order they were taken so you'll see the pictures going back and forth between people working on the top cap and the hull with the top cap getting finished first followed by the hull.


Let's go.....

Here's Frank blocking out the hull. We started with #500 grit 3M Wet/Dry





Here's Rick an Scott block sanding....




Here's Chris and me blocking out the front of the hull....






Over on the top cap Robert and Mark are hand sanding with #1000 grit Nikken Finishing Papers....





Here's Andy hand sanding with #1000 grit....





Back to the hull you see the guys hard at work.... when you see the BEFORE pictures which show just how rough the surface was before we sanded you'll see why we had a lot of sanding to do....




Frank block sanding....




Eric block sanding.... We did an extreme makeover on Eric's boat here....

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Here's the Marine Extreme Team working on the top cap....





Here's Rick using the Rupes TA50 with some #1000 3M Trizact....








In the back you can see Mike the cameraman capturing all the action while everyone is working hard and fast....





Here's Steve the cameraman filming us sand the hull....




Here's Andy machine sanding the top cap using #1000 Trizact....





Here's Frank cleaning his wool pad with a spur before compounding....




Scott and Frank compounding the hull....





That's Jeff in the back compounding the sides and Andy up front compounding the deck....




Here's John watching Robert DiTerrlizzi make the Flex PE14 dance....






More to come.....

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