I was looking around the internet, trying to find something to update my 1997 GTX to the present time era. I got a good friend who has an airbrush studio and thought of getting him to brush it for me. He told me that the paints would not likely hold up too long in the water environment, with the UV rays and stuff. So, I thought I’d google “graphics”. I came up with several sites. But, most of the graphics were too bland. You know, single colors and if there was a 2 tone color, it was like the bottom one color and the top another. The prices on all the sites I went to, were basically the same.
Then, I came across the website www.Jetskidetailing.com. From the moment I saw the homepage, I was interested. The colors on the homepage alone caught my eye. Then, I started looking through his schemes specific to my GTX. I was totally floored. This guy is obviously an artist. It was kinda the airbrush designs I was looking for, but on vinyl. I found a design I liked but wanted to make sure the color matched my GTX. So, I emailed the “contact us”. He responded the next day. He recommended contacting through SKYPE, so I did. A lot easier to talk, verses typing. He was familiar to my ski and said colors weren’t a problem. He was familiar with the color scheme on the GTX, took my design I liked and changed the color to more suit my preference.
Then, I was a bit worried because of durability and price. Every website I went to, had a price range on graphics, for my ski, around $375 to $450. But, when I looked over his graphics, the price was basically the same as other sites, but had more pieces to cover a lot more of the ski, all the way around. So, I emailed to ask about how durable the material was. He said the material is a vinyl type product that is printed and then, laminated. He insists that you can wash it with a powerwasher at a carwash, but I’m surely not going to test that theory out.
I bought the green to match my ski. When I got them, they were well laid out. I was happy to feel the material. It’s a very top quality feeling material. Kinda like a rubberized vinyl. He has tutorials on his site, that I watched after my order. Figuring, I’d get a heads up on the process, learning the “tips and tricks” of how to best put them on. The biggest trick is “steering”. When you clean the hull, no wax, and start to apply the graphic, you kinda pull and steer the direction of the graphic, to make the curves and turns of the geometry of the hull. It was pretty easy. But, I’d have to warn that if your looking to peel the graphic and put it on like slapping a bumper sticker on your car, then don’t get them. You’ve got to have patience and work slowly with it. I used about 2 or 3 hours of total time just applying the graphics. It was stretched out over several days. When I got tired, I’d stop. I didn’t want to continue and mess it up. The other good thing is, if you do lay it out and it’s not right, you can pull it up to where you made the mistake, then go again. The other single most important trick is using water. Like putting on window tint. If you wet everything down real good, if wind folds the graphic over, you can pull it apart. Without water, it’d be a bit harder. Like tape that has stuck to itself.
I’m attaching a few pix of my work. You’ll notice I asked him to put “Seadooforum” on my nose. I also got it on my back. You can ask him to put lettering on it, he will. I got the seadooforum on it, along with my hull numbers, no extra charge.
So, if your thinking of upgrading that old ski to 2010, then you got to look his stuff over. The graphics I saw for the 2008,09, and 10 models are really awesome. Those were more detailed, with more choices in design and color.
:cheers:
Then, I came across the website www.Jetskidetailing.com. From the moment I saw the homepage, I was interested. The colors on the homepage alone caught my eye. Then, I started looking through his schemes specific to my GTX. I was totally floored. This guy is obviously an artist. It was kinda the airbrush designs I was looking for, but on vinyl. I found a design I liked but wanted to make sure the color matched my GTX. So, I emailed the “contact us”. He responded the next day. He recommended contacting through SKYPE, so I did. A lot easier to talk, verses typing. He was familiar to my ski and said colors weren’t a problem. He was familiar with the color scheme on the GTX, took my design I liked and changed the color to more suit my preference.
Then, I was a bit worried because of durability and price. Every website I went to, had a price range on graphics, for my ski, around $375 to $450. But, when I looked over his graphics, the price was basically the same as other sites, but had more pieces to cover a lot more of the ski, all the way around. So, I emailed to ask about how durable the material was. He said the material is a vinyl type product that is printed and then, laminated. He insists that you can wash it with a powerwasher at a carwash, but I’m surely not going to test that theory out.
I bought the green to match my ski. When I got them, they were well laid out. I was happy to feel the material. It’s a very top quality feeling material. Kinda like a rubberized vinyl. He has tutorials on his site, that I watched after my order. Figuring, I’d get a heads up on the process, learning the “tips and tricks” of how to best put them on. The biggest trick is “steering”. When you clean the hull, no wax, and start to apply the graphic, you kinda pull and steer the direction of the graphic, to make the curves and turns of the geometry of the hull. It was pretty easy. But, I’d have to warn that if your looking to peel the graphic and put it on like slapping a bumper sticker on your car, then don’t get them. You’ve got to have patience and work slowly with it. I used about 2 or 3 hours of total time just applying the graphics. It was stretched out over several days. When I got tired, I’d stop. I didn’t want to continue and mess it up. The other good thing is, if you do lay it out and it’s not right, you can pull it up to where you made the mistake, then go again. The other single most important trick is using water. Like putting on window tint. If you wet everything down real good, if wind folds the graphic over, you can pull it apart. Without water, it’d be a bit harder. Like tape that has stuck to itself.
I’m attaching a few pix of my work. You’ll notice I asked him to put “Seadooforum” on my nose. I also got it on my back. You can ask him to put lettering on it, he will. I got the seadooforum on it, along with my hull numbers, no extra charge.
So, if your thinking of upgrading that old ski to 2010, then you got to look his stuff over. The graphics I saw for the 2008,09, and 10 models are really awesome. Those were more detailed, with more choices in design and color.
:cheers:
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