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i used the 3m tape with the pullouts))))) its a 1" wide tape with 1/8, 1/16 already cut on the tape. lay it on, pull out the lines you want and paint.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've used Finesse for so long now, must be twenty five years or so. Great product! We use the edge tape from them also. In all those years I've never seen a problem.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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I don't use it anymore; don't get any calls for striping but I used to use it and it was great stuff. I think Joey uses it. ...for taping his palette down to his Killer Kart so it doesn't blow away.
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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There was an article done with me using Finesse, July 01 Sign Builders Illustrated whereas I was showing its usage as a tool and what could be accomplished when doing panel to panel, I use #37 for triples only because of its spacing. I have no problems free handing singles and doubles at a faster pace and just as straight and uniform. Recently maybe couple years back Pepe changed the formula of the tape and I did have a problem with its match so I just wound up doing it by hand.
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I use it quite often...like it very well. I have a car dealer that sells a lot of upscale new cars and many of them (Lexus, Mercedes, BMW) have very narrow pinstripes,1/16th or less. I do their body shop work. Finesse works the best I've found.
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I used to until I learned to freehand... Much slower to use the stencil tape and adds quite a bit to material cost.. especially when doing a lot of cars.. That said.. I would have never been able to be in the long line business if it hadn't been for starting off with Pepe's Finess stencil tapes..
-------------------- John Fiorentino DBA Painter John Jacksonville, Fl
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Have only used it a few times, and that was a long time ago....in a galaxy far far away !
-------------------- Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain ! Jim Moser Design 13342 C Grass Valley Ave. Grass Valley, Ca. 95945 530-273-7615 jwmoser@att.net Posts: 488 | From: Grass Valley, Ca. | Registered: May 2006
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I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.
I use it a lot.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I use Finesse Tape occasionally, it works for me.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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and your purpose of the question is????????????
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I use it. Also love that orange tape from Germany that I can only get from Bill Beckner. Love....Jill
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Jill, the orange tape can be had from most any auto body supply house. One thing to try is the Edge from Finesse which is 1/3 the price, turn just as well and is available from 1/16" to 1"
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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Joey, I do use that Edge tape too, I just forgot what it was called. I can get that from Pioneer Supply Company. I will have to check out some auto body stores for the orange stuff, but that's where I buy my Finesse and I never see the orange tape there.
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I use the Finesse striping tape all the time, made thousands of $ over the years with it. I keep a supply of different widths on hand all the time.
Love the Edge tape too. Have not bought a roll of 3M green for years.
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 590 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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I use it all, 3-m, Pro, American, Finesse; whatever fills the bill at the moment...
Jill, just received word that Pro that makes the orange is discontinuing it's distribution...but not to despair, Olga tapes, the yellow one, is taking up the slack and I've found it superior to Pro...Pro like 3-m blue, won't stay flat on tight corners or loopbacks, drives me crazy doing a layout, having to constantly keep trapping my designs before tape shrinks up and lifts off surface, making a mess of things...no to mention extra time taken for layouts...you'd think the tape industry here would get the message, yellow tape is from Europe somewhere, regardless, I like it, it's not the final answer, but works nice if treated right.....
As far as Finesse, I'm a striper, I find it faster to just stripe the line by hand and be done w/it...it will be many years yet before I'm worried about pulling less than perfect lines...but when that time comes as it did when I had cancer, Finesse and I became close buddies, had at least 3 of every size available, owner Pepe must have thought I was quite the wheeler/dealer from all the tape I bought, but doing up to 30 dealership cars a day required alot of striping and I had to do it somehow or give up the accounts, Finesse!!!!!! was the answer, thank you Pepe, and btw, Pepe hasn't changed any FORMULA, that's nonsense...what has probably happened is, the cutting stages might deviate slightly over time, requiring adjustments to compensate, other than that, it's the same product it was over 20 years ago when I started stocking it west of the mississippi, the first one to do so, Pepe and I go way back....good man, good product and no attitude when questions arise...why u ask J?
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Actually Frank, the tape was changed both in color and flexibility sometime back, and Jose and I practically lived in the same neighborhood never the less we both lived in Queens
I remember when I was a transient pinstriper in Vegas and both you and ya buddy used Finesse in record time
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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I don't know about the actual tape ( the tan ) being changed, but the clear release liner was changed a few years back. I remember when Pepe was working on the new liner he sent me a roll for some feedback. The new stuff is much, much easier to remove. The lighter weight liner makes it a lot more flexible. Any way, it's great product that has made me thousands!!! We have a fire truck restoration coming up sometime in the future. I'll do a step by step on how we use Finesse F-39 to do the 1/2 gold stripes. A major time saver.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
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