How Did You Learn to Tint?

Neverly

Because I'd like to, and need some ideas. There's no training nearby me, that I know of.

Get a job in a tint shop, the only way.

i started out learning from the school of hardknocks and wasting alot of money doing so. then i found the most intelligent tinters in the world on one site called tintdude.com and started making profit. order your tintdude.com kit today. its like hooked on phonics to tinters around the world.

Well, that too. lol...There wasn't even an internet when I started. :shock (or electricity, phone, running water..lol)

i bet you had to take a dump in an outhouse and wipe on sears and roebuck catalogs to huh?

I went to a distributor tint school they just show you the basics and after that was go do it and make some money, most of us call it the school of hard knocks.

The first place I worked actually didn't have plumbing that worked, had to fill a bucket. And when you opened in the morning, you had to make alot of noise to scare BEN off, he was a BIG Rat.

it was probably corn cobs. you use the red ones first, they were the hardest, took off more crap. then use the white ones, they were softer and you could make sure you had gotten it all.!!!

see, he knows what i'm talkin about!!!

I don't think ot is that old, and boy that would be rough huh.

around here, pine cones were the most plentiful though!

I learned to tint the same way 90% of us learned to tint. We worked for a shop,got tired of doing all the work and opened our own shops.

So many different ways to learn nowadays but the best is frequent hands on experience.

I've only seen on other person tint before and watched him powder shrink a Toyota Camry.

I practiced and burned tint for months then discovered shrinking with dryer sheets and the gates to the palace swung wide open! I owe it all to Carlton Sheets...uh....I mean TD.com

i took a job in a shop and got trained from scratch, started at 6 bucks per hour

Same as :mdog Started in a shop that their tinter quit.

*sigh* Well, my current employment makes it tough to work in a tint shop at the moment...

Think I'll just break into a junk yard in the dead of night and practice on the heaps. I'll be the Masked Tinter

If you really want to learn the trade you have to sacrifice!! Otherwise it is just a hobby.

SACRIFICE is the key word. you do it in the begining, wasting LOTS of film. then when you get brave and open your own shop, you start all over again. live like a king in the summer, starve to death in the winter.

*sigh* Well, my current employment makes it tough to work in a tint shop at the moment...
Well, if you can't devote time to learn, how do you expect to learn? We can't solve your personal problems, if you want the best way to learn get a job at a tint shop, end of story.

Or as the infamous Mike Tyson might say, "You gotta bring ass to get ass!"

As most of you know...My hubby taught me..he on the other hand worked for a auto parts store and ordered a roll of tint from a co. in cali and got started that way..it was 18 years for him!

I went in to a shop about four years ago to get my windows tinted. The guy was working solo and I made a comment about how that must be a pain in the arse. He said he was lookking for somebody. and I promtly offered my services. I told him I didn't know jack about it and he said that was no problem because he could train me his way. Worked for him for several years, got to be too good of freinds with him, caused too much tension, left and opened my own shop. Coming up on one year here shortly.

i was bored one day nd tinted my moms car then i thought it was cool so i never stopped...



I known one of my best friends for about 10 years, after about 4 years of just hanging out, I picked up a knife and did my moms car and it turned out pretty nice, so he trained me and the rest is history.