I am looking for someone who can do a high quality clear coat job in the Bay Area. Any tips?

Are we talking glass like?

Yes, agreed. Thanks a lot for the information.

Boogies,

Beautiful, just beautiful. This settles the question about Bobcat Gary. The other advantage is that I will not need to take all the below playfield apart.

Hi Pinwillie,

What I need now is to take the playfield apart. That's an entirely new project for which I am going to build a rotisserie first. It took me forever to shop a machine before and I want to see how much easier it is to do it with the playfield out and easy to access.

Thanks so much for the information.

I actually never did this kind of voting before, but I will now going forward. Good way to identify useful information.

I dropped my playfield at Gary's yesterday. I really like him and I have a good feeling about how it is going to come out. I will post pics when I get it back.

Some astute pinsiders correctly identified a recent craigslist post as Gary notifying me that my playfields were ready. He had lost my number, but luckily not my playfields.

We should know within a week what the end result looks like. Stay tuned.

The pics are not great but the results are glass like.
Ten coats of clear with a lot of sanding in between. The playfield is better than new. Far better.

Beautiful results. Gary's the guy.

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Another one of the mini playfield that shows the super high gloss.

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Gary said he was using the same clear high-end German Auto makers use.
Honestly, as long as you use a good product, I don't think it matters as much as how you prep the playfield, shoot the clear, polish it and sand it.