Slick Willy's Production Painter Playbook

Slick Willy's Production Painter Playbook

The Production Principles That Help Me Paint 7–9 Jobs Per Day in a Single Non-Bake Booth... and the 37 Years of Lessons That Made It Possible.

Production isn't about painting faster.

It's about wasting less time.

After 37 years in automotive production paint, I've learned that getting more cars through a booth isn't simply about working harder or rushing through jobs. It's about creating a workflow that eliminates wasted motion, prevents problems, keeps materials where you need them, and keeps the booth producing.

I put the systems, workflow habits, and hard-earned lessons I've learned over nearly four decades into one practical playbook.

This isn't theory from a classroom.

It's what I've learned from actually working in production paint.

Inside the Playbook

You'll find practical principles and techniques covering topics such as:

• Organizing your booth and supplies to reduce wasted movement

• Keeping the painter focused on painting instead of unnecessary tasks

• Improving workflow between prep, mixing, masking, and the booth

• Managing flash times and bake cycles more efficiently

• Keeping multiple guns and equipment working to minimize downtime

• Cleaning guns and managing color changes without bringing production to a halt

• Improving masking workflow

• Building a spray-out card library that saves time and prevents headaches

• Reducing orange peel and improving clear coat results

• Pre-warming materials in cold weather

• Keeping the paint department moving when the workload piles up

• And dozens of other lessons learned through years of production painting

Who Is This For?

This playbook is for automotive production painters, collision repair professionals, paint department leads, and shop owners who want to improve throughput without simply rushing through the work.

Whether you're trying to increase your own production, improve the flow of your paint department, or find ways to eliminate the little inefficiencies that add up throughout the day, the principles inside are designed to give you practical ideas you can put to work in the shop.

The Goal

The goal isn't to make you paint faster.

It's to help you waste less time.

Every unnecessary walk. Every interruption. Every poorly organized supply. Every avoidable problem. Every minute spent waiting when you could be moving forward.

Those minutes add up.

This playbook is about finding them, eliminating them, and building a production workflow that keeps the booth moving.

Get the Playbook

If you're ready to take a closer look at the systems and principles behind high-volume production painting, grab your copy of Slick Willy's Production Painter Playbook and start putting these lessons to work.

37 years of experience. One practical playbook. Built for the production painter.