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When i started my apprentiship in 1992 for my fathers co he had some great old school painters that worked for him...and i thank god everyday that i had the chance to work with these men..talking to some of these new guys at the paint store they don't even know how to brush or roll oil base on trim,hm door frames,or god forbid drywall ceilings or walls..


My question to you guys is..Has painting become a mask it off and spray EVERYTHING deal...i see guys spraying things that i could just take a brush cut it in and roll faster that masking and spray..What has happened to the true mechanic????
 
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Mechanichs are rare! I'm Old world ... pre lead based fears ... when we didn't wear masks cause it made you look like a puss. The new guys can't do it. They are "Efficiency Taught". The budgets have shrank ... and specialists have grown. "The caulk and putty guy", "the prime Guy", the Touch-up guy ... that's me now.

It's sad!
 
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Shaggy Dog said:
When i started my apprentiship in 1992 for my fathers co he had some great old school painters that worked for him...and i thank god everyday that i had the chance to work with these men..talking to some of these new guys at the paint store they don't even know how to brush or roll oil base on trim,hm door frames,or god forbid drywall ceilings or walls..


My question to you guys is..Has painting become a mask it off and spray EVERYTHING deal...i see guys spraying things that i could just take a brush cut it in and roll faster that masking and spray..What has happened to the true mechanic????
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These new guys would wipe their buts with airless toilet paper if you gave them a chance!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Hey booger..how long you been painting???the one thing that is neat about me is i'm only 32..so i incorporate ALOT of the old school stuff with a modern spin..i came up working in churches,hospitols,lots of retail work,wallcovering which i hate to hang(mostly 54 in),polymix,multi-spec,dry fall..etc,etc
 
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Hey booger..how long you been painting???the one thing that is neat about me is i'm only 32..so i incorporate ALOT of the old school stuff with a modern spin..i came up working in churches,hospitols,lots of retail work,wallcovering which i hate to hang(mostly 54 in),polymix,multi-spec,dry fall..etc,etc
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Were you on any of the sitcom's in the 60's?
 
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what about union painters???i have 13 years in but since i took over the biz i can't continue to pay in..but the way things are going here the union painters are all steel painters no more decorators so to speak...
 
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I do "CLINICS" ... teaching the how and why. I never tell them they need to go faster ... I tell them they need to think better. I teach the old stuff ... and they find solutions to their problems easier.

In stead of the one dimentional painter produced by shrinking budgets ... I'm creating problem solvers. It's for the better good of the industry ... they won't be with me for ever ... but I'll be with them forever ... They will talk about me as they teach the next ones ... just as I talk about the ones who taught me.

If that makes sense.
 
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bragging about not wearing a mask is dumb machismo talk...lead poisons ur body and has bad effects on the brain..why brag about not taking care of the most important organ humans have..not trying to be rude but it gets on my nerves when people dont take care themselves
 
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Alot of the old guys i worked with didn't wear masks either..thats just how it was i guess..i remember painting block walls with 2 part epoxy i was the ground man and the guy spraying had a cigar in his mouth and the guy rolling had a pipe..crazy stuff i know and these men are both still alive in their late 70's..i am in no way condoning this act..but it's the truth
 
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bragging about not wearing a mask is dumb machismo talk...lead poisons ur body and has bad effects on the brain..why brag about not taking care of the most important organ humans have..not trying to be rude but it gets on my nerves when people dont take care themselves
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He wasn't bragging about not wearing a mask, he was expressing a time and era when folks didn't find it all that important or didn't care or know any better. If you don't like what ya read, find something else to read. :whistling2:

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the guy spraying had a cigar in his mouth ..crazy stuff i know and these men are both still alive in their late 70's..i am in no way condoning this act..but it's the truth
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You have described my father. (but he was never a union painter)

I thought EVERYBODY brushed, rolled, cut in and sprayed. That is what we were raised believing a true painter was. Did not know there was an "Old School", you either are a painter or you are not.
 
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