Cheap Spray Gun VS Expensive Spray Gun

In this video I paint 2 panels with all the same products. The only difference is the spray guns used.

1 panel I sprayed the clear coat with a cheap gun. The other with an expensive gun.

All products available from VG Auto Paints.

[jeffeaton]

The area I live in the $150 gun is expensive & A $15 gun is cheap lol

[cajunroadwarrior]

I have absolutely no need of an expensive gun. I'm not ever going to paint an expensive show car. That $150.00 gun is all I need. Besides, all the expensive equipment isn't going to help you if you cut corners on the body prep and rush the job. Bad prep will show loudly through the greatest paint.

[Diggingevidence]

I have to second that response from CCB. You are the reason I am capable of pulling off top quality paint jobs from a rattle can. I am stepping up to a spray gun soon. Thank you for your efforts and time put into each one of your tutorials. And 👍 on being a car guy as well. Dig the Subaru!
Thank you Dave - from Ohio in the United States.

[fswenson]

Me: *stares at $10 Harbor Freight spray gun in the garage* so where do you fall on the poor scale?

[cheifcrazybuffalo]

Dave your videos are the reason I Choose to be a painter and body repair man for that Thank You For inspiring me to follow this Career path Thank You from Arizona

[maalimezo]

My favourite paint videos. The guy is pleasant, polite, cheerful yet very focused. Excellent

[nikchristides]

Dave, you are nothing short of awesome - and while you do reduce the gap between DIY and professionals, taking that fear away - it has also given me so much more appreciation for the trade, and how many variables one needs to control to do an awesome job.
Thanks heaps - great video *looks at his 5 in 1 air spraying kit he found under the house*

[alxuk]

Thanks to your videos i had the confidence to rebuild and custom paint my motorcycle after a bad crash. I did so well taking the time to prepare, sand repaint then polish I entered a show and shine competition and won the amateur class. Thanks from the UK you are what makes YouTube great, I would love to go to one of your classes one day.

[endlesstwisties]

I was thinking more like some 20$ vs expensive one :)

[LBCAndrew]

Excellent video. I’m still blown away how well you guys paint upside down without everything flying away, though that must be a huge help with overspray.
Kidding aside, I’ve been looking at a lot of spray guns and am leaning towards the 3m Accuspray system.

[powermos]

I painted my bike with a 12eur lidl spray gun. The paint looks absolutely great! I wouldn't say it's worse than 90% of the paint shops. Yes, in order to achieve good mist you have to reduce the volume of the paint quite a bit, and the spray pattern is small, so you would be painting much slower than the quality gun, but for a bike it's not much of an issue. On a bike you have smaller parts, no large flat areas and you wouldn't be painting for too long anyways. For large areas, like a hood, doors, etc it would be difficult to get no stripes.

[GarageTimeAutoResto]

Agree 💯 regarding practice and technique is more important than expensive gear!

[kikcodog]

Because of your skill and experience I am sure you can adjust no matter how limited the equipment is, to get great results.

[simoncarter]

Hey Dave. Your videos got me started in beginning to learn Custom Paint. I first your video on repairing curb rash on wheels with rattle cans. I did the job and it turned out pretty well. I enjoyed it so much that now I’m learning to airbrush and applying my own clear coat with a mini gun. Thanks for showing me that I could give it a go.

[ant-asd]

the important thing is the man behind the gun...!
And you're so good dude...!
no matter which gun you used.... :)

[redinerr]

I paint in a garage where there is always going to be trash in the paint, so the cheap gun works just as good since ill have to sand and buff anyways.

[ERKOJORKO]

When you painted the first one, you got some paint dust on the second panel, which had time to cure while you were prepping to paint the other, thus affecting the paint job

[christiankirkenes]

I love the fact that your cheap gun is worth more than my entire spray set and part of the cost of my compressor XD

[davexstuntman]

Thanks so much for your channel.

I did my first spray gun job after watching lot's of your tutorials and to tell the truth from being terrified of using a gun, now I love it. I'd only used rattle cans in the past.
My paint job wasn't the best in the world but was so much better thanks to your instruction.

Thanks again.
David Sydney Oz

[JoeyVilleneuve]

I was gonna make the comment myself, but you mentioned it yourself in the video with your little speech about variable between 4:25 and 5:00. The gun is more for the painter's comfort/preference than the finish. even with the better spray gun in a clean environment used by a pro, there will still likely be some minor issues that will need to be sanded and buffed out. And as a professional detailer myself, orange peel matching is another thing to keep in mind. It's sometimes better to have more orange peel in your finish and then knock it down slowly so it can match adjacent panels that haven't been repainted.

Overall I agree with you 100%. The better gun is only about 5% of the factors in the finish. Technique and experience is %80 of it.