[jag]

I may have opened a can of worms here.

Perhaps this is just the difference in attitude between the uk and us.
The hot rod culture seems to encourage backyard type hobbyist to try stuff and many great machines built this way, but even professional shops seem to use industrial quantities of filler (bondo), where as in the uk this time served panel beater wheeler would have a flawless finish in metal. The hotrodder would put his hand to anything engine paint and other mechanicals too. A coachbuilder in the uk wouldn't imagine doing such things. The best body specialist i still believe are british, roach, rod jolley and vintage cars to name a few.

Perhaps we are too much of a perfectionist across the pond, where as the americans have a just do it attitude.

I'm very tempted to sell my wheel and use the proceeds to job properly, sad i know and perhaps sound defeatist. but it in reality sounds like the best real world solution.