Happening troops, had a bit of a fun wknd, well when I say fun I mean more expermental.
got myself a grill and decided to have a little go wrapping it in carbon fibre, not the vinyl stuff, the real deal.
In all fairness would have been about 100 times quicker with vinyl 1000 times easier, and the better half would have been a million times less angry with me at making our small kitchen a carbon fibre workshop for 3days, lol. (nothin beats the real macoy though)
my mate who's makes baths for a living, gave me a hand and to be honest prob couldnt have done it without his help, (his moto is "If he cant make it out of fibreglass....It cant be made, lol) which gave me a bit of confidence. as its kinda like the same stuff but my mate says its alot harder working with carbon.
For our 1st attempt I think we done a not too bad job, its not 100% brilliant but wasnt expecting it to be as good as it turned out.
Carbon been laid and 1st clear coat has been applied. Was thinking to myself this isnt gonna work out, lol.
A few more layers
of clear coat had been added and rubbed down. and lipstick had been put in place to see how it was looking. started thinkin to myself this might not be as bad as had 1st thought. lol.
rubbed down a bit more and a cpl caots of laquer and put on the car to see how it looks, and surprised at how good it actaully looks.
Like I said not 100% perfect but looks fairly decent i thought. its back off the car just now as my mate is gonna take into his work and machine polish it, to try and bring it up a little bit better. and we were learning little tricks and tips all the time, so will only keep getting better with the more we do.
let me know what your thoughts are, as we were thinking about a little business venture, and doin these on a p/x basis, u send us ex-amout, and we send you a carbon grill, when u recieve it, you send us your standard grill, when we recieve that we send you ex-amount back. (obviously if you are local then just we can just meet up and swap grills and cash. we will need to work out how much and if its gonna be worth while doing this, as there is quite alot of work involved. and the misses being angry with me is gonna reflect on the price, lol.