Step 3 - More friggin sanding

I suspect that sanding will be the net 18 steps. holy cow. First you gotta sand to get all the paint all ground up and the glossy coat off and all the stickers off, then you have to come back again and sand a couple more times to smooth out the sanding that you just did.

I'm totally gonna check into a sand blaster and see if that doesn't speed this process up. There has got to be a tool that's better than a power sander for this crazy angled shit. if I have to hand sand that whole head piece, that's gonna SUUUUUCK! I can't even imagine.

I may also check into a local custom bike painting shop and see if they'd just do hat sand blasting for me and how much that is. There is a guy near the house that is supposedly pretty well known for custom paint jobs. I might see if he'd be wiling to chat with me and give me some advice as I go through this process. we'll see, he could be really cool, or he could be a jack ass and not want to share any info.

Here's a few more shots from today. I'm just continuing on with the same grit #60 and trying to hit as much of the pieces as I can. Today I did much better than last night, in 2 hours today, I did the other side panel, the front fender and the tail piece all in just a little longer than it took me to do the whole left panel yesterday. But now all the big areas are done and its time to get into the small shit. thus the break to find a sandblasting solution.

the side panel today made some really cool contour lines from the layers of paint. I really dig the effect.