

I couldn’t even make that many, I thought. Then a distributor in Australia saw these on Facebook, and asked me how much would it cost for 10,000. I used them for a while and then I had a couple other people who said they wanted them. Then I came up with a rough draft and made them. And we were using a lot of foam blocks and different other types of blocks. One day a few years ago, I was trying to get the clear to be literally like a mirror where there's no ripple, no chop-nothing in it.

How did you get the idea for Linear Blocking Tools? I was the body guy and the painter there and I did probably 90% of the body work and all the painting, and then early last year I started my own shop. And that's where I really progressed into knowing what I know now by pushing the envelope. Then I had a great opportunity to work for a top shop here in Wisconsin, where I could work on high-end restorations. We did a little bit everything and it was a great learning experience. I worked there for about five years and then I worked for a shop that did both restoration, collision and some dealer work. And then from there I started working at a Ford dealership doing mostly collision and some light restoration stuff. Right out of high school, I went to tech school for auto body, where I completed a one-year program. His system is also designed to alleviate the wear and tear on the human body caused by hours of sanding. Of 2 Auto Painter Invents Linear Blocking Tools While Looking for a Better Paint JobĪutobody News runs into great stories like this one all the time, in which collision repairers invent things to do a better job.Ĭolten Davidson, a painter and now the owner of his own restoration shop in Birnamwood, WI, created Linear Blocking Tools, a sanding block system that can create a perfectly flat surface easily and consistently.
