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Block-Sanding Basics

“We might spend 400 hours on the body surface of a restoration project and only 8 of them are actually spent in the spray booth to lay on paint,” restorer Nyle Wing says. “The rest of that time is spent block sanding.”

Sanding, sanding, and more sanding. It’s the method of smoothing the small surface waves and high and low

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