30 Mystique before and after (well almost after) restore
06-22-2013 | 09:30 PM
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Joe
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30 Mystique before and after (well almost after) restore
Here some before and after pics of my 30' 2000 Mystique and it is the same boat and trailer. the story began 2 years ago, and started as a little repair here, and a touch up there, well we all know how that works out...It snowballed into a full resto, and some upgrades, on the boat, trailer, motors, and drives. the project is finally on the up hill swing, and starting to look like something again. Let me know what you think, and if you guys want to see more pics , I got 2500 pics of everything on this project, I did most of the work, from the paint work to logo layouts, made my own frame and windscreen, drives, motors, trailer redo, so if you want to see anything that might help you on your project let me know..... thanks for looking Joe [ATTACH=CONFIG]503227[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503228[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503229[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503230[/ATTACH]
06-23-2013 | 08:51 AM
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Joe
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If you want to see some pics I'll post a few of the resto and a few of what I'm doing now....these pic here, are from the beginning, we painted this boat twice...Oh also let me say I only had this boat in the water once since I owned it and that was on the sea trial 2 years ago, again it was never suppose to turn into this huge project
....We keep the first painting the same as when the factory painted it, but we had huge problems with the paint and clear, and also I didn't do the work that time, I was really tied up in my own shop, so I had a guy that use to work for me do it, well the old story goes if you what it done right do it yourself...Well it got sanded done again and we started over...The pics here are of the boat at the first painting and at time I started to do some work on the trailer, some of the step plates I had made, and what the motors looked like before and what they look like now.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]503234[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503235[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503236[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503237[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503238[/ATTACH]
....We keep the first painting the same as when the factory painted it, but we had huge problems with the paint and clear, and also I didn't do the work that time, I was really tied up in my own shop, so I had a guy that use to work for me do it, well the old story goes if you what it done right do it yourself...Well it got sanded done again and we started over...The pics here are of the boat at the first painting and at time I started to do some work on the trailer, some of the step plates I had made, and what the motors looked like before and what they look like now.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]503234[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503235[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503236[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503237[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503238[/ATTACH]
06-23-2013 | 09:09 AM
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Joe
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I used a tan roloc disc to get any Knicks or scratches out that your fingernail could get caught in then I took sos pad wet and went over the aluminum, make sure you go in the same direction with the pad, than I buff it with heavy compound, and than buff it with mothers billet polish...and the pics you see there are what it looks likes a year and a half later that's how long ago I did it, now it hasn't been in the water, but I think it held up pretty good, now I just have to take some mothers over it again....here are some pics of what it looked like when I did it...[ATTACH=CONFIG]503239[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503240[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]503241[/ATTACH]
