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Old 06-08-2004, 10:58 PM
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Final stages of sheetrocking are as bad as body work

Jeez.

I finally get all the mud on, feathered and sanded and feeling good. I know the rule in body work that if you can feel something, you'll see it in the paint. Damn sheetrock is just as bad but different.

I got the first primer coat on, had a couple minor spots I could barely feel. Under the primer most of these spots disappeared and I could no longer feel them or see them. But, by golly, did a bunch of isty bitsy pocks stand out once the primer was dry. Several spots had apparently had some small air bubbles, which I sanded through. The result was a few areas that had little divits in the dry compound that I could not feel, even though I could see them. This afternoon was spent laying in a small amount of mud to fill these divits.

Seems like everything I take on is an art form of its own.
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