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all right so there you have it Maui Mike
says it doesn't look like a million
bucks it looks like more like 750
thousand and the gold standard is him
back there at a million bucks
go get him Maui Mike hey guys you ever
want to learn how to do tight edges
without doing a lot of trimming
underneath getting a nice clean edge and
getting your horns wrap stick around
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today I'm going to show you how I like
to cut these edges on these hoods or
same thing if you're doing bulk installs
on a fender around doors I'm going to
show you how I cut them and then how we
use a propane torch to wrap these and
without having to do a lot of major
cutting underneath when we're all done
alright guys so one of the first things
I do after I've laid a hood I run all
the edges here and make sure that
they're locked down with alcohol you
don't want to be able to pull this up
and have it lift and I take my scissors
and run my scissors right along this
edge here and it gives you a nice clean
uniform cut what I'm doing is I'm
letting the on this side I'm letting
this nut ride right along this edge and
it's giving me a nice little kind of
sticking here it's giving me a nice
little flap here to fold underneath
there so we'll go down to the center
there like so get that cut and then here
we'll take our knife and we'll make the
same type of cut here along that with
our knife and just try to match that
that distance there we'll try not to
block yeah
cut started and just bring it here and
then when we get down here we'll make a
little turn and I'm gonna let this ride
along here so when I get to this point
here I'll show you how we cut that and
save you from having to cut underneath
the hood one more time or have a big
flap of film to fold underneath and
fight with four edges along the side of
the hood I use the actual fender as a
guide so we've started this here when we
made our turn and now the knife is just
riding right along on this fender edge
stick it out just a little bit more here
and it's just using that as a guide
and then we can pull this off here so
and now all we have left to wrap is this
little little bit of an edge here and
we'll open up the hood but you can see
how much there is maybe less than a
quarter of an inch that will wrap
underneath and once that's wrapped
underneath there it'll look nice neat
and clean it's not a big overhang but
because we did it in bulk that gave us
the opportunity to pull us and stretch
it how we wanted to without putting our
hands up here and trying to manipulate
the film to go where we want to running
the risk of creating adhesive
disturbances the front we can use the
same process as the back if you have
room for the scissors if you don't then
you can use your knife I have plenty of
room here so I'll use my scissors and
run that right along there like so
and these scissors are nice and sharp
they do a good job you can pick these up
at like any fabric store so we've got a
nice cut there we may have to trim a
little bit off this corner here once we
wrap it well you don't have to go around
and reframe this whole hood this section
right here will do the same thing we did
with our knife along the side we'll take
and put our blade in here and get it to
go there we go
blades in there and now I'm just
bringing it around and I've already
checked and make sure there's not a
gasket underneath there I'm cutting or
anything like that we can make a nice
rounded cut here if we want and just
snip it off like that again I'm just
taking this and running it right along
the edge here and I've got this edge
lock down and remember
all right so when we get to a corner
like this and I'm gonna try to do this
one-handed because I've got my camera up
as high as it'll go so you're gonna heat
the corner up and you don't want to rap
into the corner this way or this way you
want to start the corner first and roll
that around and then work your way out
with the film like so one like that and
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this will probably need a little more
heat down here and it still we've got a
lot of moisture here and we're still
dealing with that I'll show you how to
trim this back so it looks nice and neat
and clean
if that wrap them in there get this
wrapped all along here
so
we'll grab our blade here and instead of
dragging the blade across it we're gonna
find where this is just starting to
wrinkle right there and we're gonna take
our blade and just roll it so I'm gonna
get it on the edge here and we're just
gonna roll our blade like so and now
you've got a cut that goes in a nice arc
all the way around that corner I can get
this off the heat really makes this
stuff stick well so we'll come back and
we'll just kind of trim this flap up
underneath here just a little bit there
is a slight little ledge underneath here
so we're riding right on the edge of
that ledge and then this right here
we've got just ever so slight bit of
fingering right here and I can't get to
that side of it so I'm just kind of a
blind cut here right to our edge where
we rolled it
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and it's stuck like a mofo there there
we go
we got that edge done and we just taken
we're gonna kiss that one more time with
a little heat make sure it stays locked
down does it pop back up
and there you've got a nice clean corner
with a nice clean edge so instead of
having a cut out on your corner where
you would normally have a cut out going
starting probably right about here and
cutting out and then coming back around
leaving this corner here exposed your
wrapped all the way down right into the
inside right we're actually right to
there so we wrapped in there pretty good
once this hits close nobody's gonna see
the edge nobody's gonna see the corner
all right
so we're gonna wrap this edge right here
one thing I didn't share with you guys
was this glove that I have it's called a
ghost love and I like to use this when
I'm wrapping edges or if I'm post
heating something and want to get
something to stick inside of a valley of
a bumper or something but this this
glove just glides really really nice
across the film and so you can take a
little heat if you want and use this
glove with some heat and get your film
to lay really nice all down on eath here
this
this pledge right along the edge it
doesn't hang up you'll notice sometimes
if you get film really hot the glove or
your finger will hang up and cut it up
pull the film and create these little
fingers and then in essence it will kind
of rule in that edge there so this
doesn't ruin the edge gives the
opportunity to really put some pressure
on on these along here and you really
get them to stick down okay so we
finished wrapping these edges here I'll
pull the camera in so you can check them
out they they look really nice and
really tight and really invisible if we
can get a little focus on that but the
edge is just just wrap right underneath
here right along here all the way down
and depending on the the width of your
gap down here we'll determine how much
film is actually going to wrap around
but you don't need you know to have a
half an inch of film underneath here to
get this all to to stick you know the
old-school way was you know have an inch
wrap or half an inch wrap underneath
here and you have all this and most guys
don't don't trim it off I get a lot of
cars in from from various shops for
either you know they have a panel
replaced from a body shop or something
you see up here this is all laid down we
haven't laid this down over here you
just doing this side here for the for
the video for you guys but this is all
laid in here this is actually metal
right here that's not film we've got it
all laid down in here and it all looks
get the glove in there so it'll focus
all looks really nice and then from the
top you're not going to see any notches
here or over here
no notches everything sealed covered
and ready to roll yeah alright alright
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