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Well I started with the drivers side fender top because I knew it would be an easy panel and I wanted to get a feel for the poly primer with the block before I moved on to something more challenging.



Then onto the passenger (hammer rash) fender.

Here's one of my tricks to keep my paper fresh, as it loads I give a light swipe with a scuff pad across the paper to clean it off.



For those that haven't done it, this is the sort of thing we are straightening out with surfacing primer and sanding blocks. See I have a low area here.



I will work the entire panel (the entire viewed surface) evenly down until I have leveled everything to low spots like this. If it's a more drastic low spot I will just hit it with a light glaze coat of very light 2K body filler. If you try to level an entire panel to too low of a low spot you will expose patches of bare metal, which is actually kind of normal on some panels but you kind of get a feel for what's going to straighten out and what might need a little skim coat of filler.

Here's the same low spot almost gone..



and now it's gone.



Here's a little ding that I didn't catch before priming, this is an example of "too deep" I'll need to hit this with a little bit of glazing filler.



I'll be damned, a nice straight fender top.

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Now for some ugliness, this is the most challenging body area on this whole car, my hammer rash fender, straightened the best I could and skim coated, block sanded (rough) with 80 grit and primed HEAVY with polyester primer. This is what te first few strokes with the board look like, UGLY!

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Yeah, just like with body filler, this polyester primer can have a skin on it that clogs your paper fast. Once you get that skin off, it sands nice and clean.

I'll be damned, she's coming around. Maybe we can save this old fender after all.

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The key to good blocking is (for me anyways) go slow. I mean your finishing strokes on a panel might be like careful and precise strokes of a file, slow and true, very controlled, just lightly shaving the surface.

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That don't look like much for "a day's work" but my arms certainly think it was something.

I'm really happy with how it's going, she's blocking out really nice. I'm about half way around the car.

I sure wish I had more to report, it was a lot of work, 3 days straight and it doesn't look like much.