I have been reading Texas Hot Boats for a while. I finally started back on my CVX 20 after a few years of illness. Now I would like to see it float this year at least enough to get it out of my garage, attic,barn, storage room,machine shop, and driveway and back to its lift. I hope I can even find all of it. Well, I got the wood in the floor reeeeeeeeeee done. The side panels are done. It is going to the upholsterer, let's see, two weeks ago. Maybe I will be done enough to take it this coming Wednesday.
I finished the floor and wood work yesterday. I have gone through about 6 gallons of resin, five harbor freight grinders, and I don't know how many grinding disks. That is just since I got it back from the paint shop that supposedly repaired the rot and badly orange peeled the metal flake paint job. I am going to learn to metal flake. I'm going to start practicing on the oil pan. The console that I found since the paint job has to be done one way or another, anyway. I just hope I can figure out what the base coat color was. I had it mixed, and there are no records or left over paint or metal flake. I asked for it but he didn't have any. Great body shop, huh. When I get it back from the upholsterer I will start sanding and buffing the orange peel. By this winter I will have learned to metal flake paint it properly, I hope. At the very least I will re-clear the boat. I have been following the CVX 20 restore by blazeracer. Hope I can get half that fantastic.
Hope to be able to join one of your meets this year.
I finished the floor and wood work yesterday. I have gone through about 6 gallons of resin, five harbor freight grinders, and I don't know how many grinding disks. That is just since I got it back from the paint shop that supposedly repaired the rot and badly orange peeled the metal flake paint job. I am going to learn to metal flake. I'm going to start practicing on the oil pan. The console that I found since the paint job has to be done one way or another, anyway. I just hope I can figure out what the base coat color was. I had it mixed, and there are no records or left over paint or metal flake. I asked for it but he didn't have any. Great body shop, huh. When I get it back from the upholsterer I will start sanding and buffing the orange peel. By this winter I will have learned to metal flake paint it properly, I hope. At the very least I will re-clear the boat. I have been following the CVX 20 restore by blazeracer. Hope I can get half that fantastic.
Hope to be able to join one of your meets this year.
