Custom Panel and Lace Painting

Last month we kicked off what it was going to take to handle your own custom panel or lace paintwork on any hot rod, especially on the roof of a wagon. To wrap up we headed back to Kraftsman Autoworks in Torrance, California, and checked in with Jack Fields. As a fulltime painter and one who has his hands, literally, daily in custom paintwork, it was back to finish what we had begun. Fields is a proponent of House of Kolor (HOK) paint materials and that’s exactly what we wanted for the ’60s Ford wagon we are working on. Remember, we have just finished the prepping, masking, and the layout of our design. Now comes the application of paint and how to use lace material to achieve our desired results.

There are a handful of dos and don’ts, so let’s go over them before getting too deep in the painting process. The old expression about “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” holds true in paintwork. You will want to make sure your