I am going out to take pics of a pf I just finished cleaning out the holes. its a big un.

I suggest ya'll check this out. Its an auction/benefit that several friends are involved with each year. I will be donating an install kit, which is pretty jankey because its just in a zip loc bag, but whatever.
Here is the pinside link

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/project-pinball-auction-2021

I wasnt taught charity in my upbringing. I didnt get turned on to it until about the time I got out of college the first time. I am choosey about where I give, but if I raised kids I would teach them to look at the blessings that take for granted, and think about how a couple hundred is nothing but a big gulp 5 days a week for a year to us but could be the difference between going without meds or food for others. Or better yet a weekend a year is nothing but could be very helpful to others. I will step down now. stay tuned for pics of a completed WPC wide body pf!

This big assed pf came out awesome. There are pics a couple pages back of the touch up I did on popeye's hat, and some inserts. I did have to drill and dimple it. Now its done. Big thank you to my customers for their patience!!

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I am trying to find Mark graves email. if you know him and know how to get a hold of him, please help a brother out. thank you.

I have some beautiful IM pics coming today.

This is a pic of a reflection of the light bulb in the ceiling on this IM I just finished. No distortion.

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That pic above makes me proud. its not easy to achieve over inserts. This is the second pf that I have finished that I am making the clear as thin as I can but still perform and be flat. This IM came out perfect. I want to play it installed so bad. I have owned 2 IM games, and its such a fast game. With this pf, it may be too much for my old ass

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I have restored and cleared over 50 centaurs, and I still find new art every time I work on one. I always like the woman at the top center/left, and I made sure to get a pic of the gimp over her shoulder

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The depth, and dimension of the art in this area is new to me this time. as soon as I find something new, I stop looking to save some for next time

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Here is the rest

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I hate saying this because so many people supported me for over 10 years before this, but the process I have honed in the last year or so (mostly changing the depth of the coats and more through sanding and dremmil work) is much better, relative to my old work.
If you havent worked with me in the last 2 years, my clear work is completely different.
Thank you to everyone who supports me. Its always a great feeling when I know the customer is going to be blown away!

I do not, a customer was super cool and made me some thing to put under the clear, but they are waterslides and my clear puckers them up. (when I use them on an insert, I always paint on top of them. Plus they are a bit transparent in that use).
So I have always wanted a sticker to put under the clear like mirco, but I havent got to it.

Often people will email me to see if it is actually one of mine, and often it is not. Though when it is one of mine, not only can I tell by the clear, or remember the customer, There are lots of hints like my packaging, the back side, the fact that it been sanded and compounded, but there is no compound in the sides of the holes. Lots of little things. So until I get a sticker to put under the clear, you can email me for any info.

Man, I laughed so frickin hard when I saw that dumb chicken scratch. Thats as good as a signature for sure!!!! How far is australia from here? like 12,000 miles?
You made my day!

I found a TAFG this spring, it sold in a day or 2. I have been on facebook since being single. Not to meet women, but just for any communication. Anyway I watch the group pins for sale (I just listed my AC nightmare pf) and first I see the headline, then the pics, the the price and location as I scroll down. I cant see the price at first. basically I play the price is right. I figure the price and then I double or triple it depending on what my mood is. My point is I am just not one of those profit driven people. I am positive I could have sold that tafg for 3500 based on the SALES of pinside, but then I certainly wouldnt want to see the buyer face to face, even though he would probably be very happy for finding it. Then from that point on, the next starting price would be more than 3500. I have my degree in econ. and I totally understand how it works. It was one thing to study it as a 20 year old who wanted to be rich (thats why I went to college at first) and a geezer who sees his customers as pals.
If I were a shrink, I would tell me that I am buying friends.
I would say to the shrink that I have been buying friends and hookers all my life. Sarcastically, of course

Either that or DE tommy?

Hehehe

You have invested enough. if you can get the same thing but stickers on clear back ground I will pay this time.

Looks fantastic!!! everything is new. Looks like the mirror is new also. I absolutely love perfection!!!!

so here is a nos I500. that I did the first prep before the first coats. I drilled and dimpled it, and sealed the back. I just need to paint almost all of the inserts because of hairline cracks, and also the big rectangle inserts that have the front of the indy car going in to the red. That insert is always bad looking in the red background. I may break out the airbrush and paint the whole red arch over the top, or I may experiment with ending my paint line under plastics or somewhere where it cant be seen. Its a bummer to repaint such a large area just for the 2 small spots at the end of each end, but as long as th eowner wants it and will pay, I will make it Perfect. This pf is in super condition, but most inserts have a hairline crack usually just ion the corners. I have found if I paint one, I should paint all of them in that lane or area. so I just wanted to document an almost before pic. Plenty of careful sanding!!!!!

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Prepand more prep. It takes about an hour to prep an old bally repro like cenatur, but these nos pfs have a very thin clear and the wood grain is signiffigant. Plus the inserts are no longer level so its a lot of work. also on a lot of the depressions for t nuts or the ball return that goes to the flippers, those holes have wood burrs from the older cnc technology, and then a bunch of clear on top of them. My clear added on top of that would be hell for the installer. So I apologize to the customers from more than 4 years back when I didnt do so much detail in prep.
So its over an hour and a half to sand, file, and hand sand then dremmil. Its also very stressful because its easy to sand thru to the ink where the inserts are not level. if the corner of an insert is low, and I miss just 1 mm along the corner edge, the clear will ghost there. Always does.
So rather than doing a bunch, I am trying to do 4 a week. I have to remove mylar also, and I now remove the t nuts on the face side, because even with my effort, the clear gets in the threads and makes install a bitch. The pics are not that exciting, except for the owner. I am guessing he like to see the progress? let me know.

as for my helper, I think I was making too much noise and he woke up for a minute to crow at me then get back to supervision

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Because I was careful and lucky, I will have less paint work on this one, than on the last one. Not too much less, all of the black key lines need it. I just wont have to break in to as many colors. I got some yellow work around the jackpots, red in front of the crate. they all get that no matter what, some orange and blue and green.
ok forget it. same amount as the last one.

No wet food for louie. his poop is all ready so bad. He uses the center of the front of the yard, and I was doing dishes in the kitchen and I could smell his latest! horrible room mate/employee

KRUZMAN PLAYFIELDS Staff photos

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HA! Maybe thats his problem!?!?

louis dont have no owner!

Taking the pics of when its done and I am happy with it, has become the best part of the job. I am taking the time to walk back to the house to post them. This is a mirco repro. There is no rhyme or reason to which do it, but this one had a lot of insert movement as it sat and cured.

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I was walking by to shoot the bk2k and noticed the light hitting the surface of this repro pf. I have not worked on it yet. this is how it came

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Ha, yes my handy J is pretty good!