Cut Window Tint With a SHARPIE?!

[@DetroitTintStudio]

I totally forgot about scissors ✂️ for doors you totally could use them instead of a knife and cut board. Simple back windows would also be fine. Mirror cutouts and such would be much more difficult

[@tinter-master]

I’m from Mexico I don’t speak to much English but I just want said thanks for your videos, i learn watching your videos 2 years ago now I’m very busy doing tints thank again

[@tpain6897]

This is the first technique I used to tint. Awesome for anyone trying to DIY.

[@kendrickmurillo6127]

I double cut using this sharpie method, when I do mobile I do everything on the vehicle, 7years & still learning

[@dberlier71]

Wso this is how I do them always. For the bottom if it is uneven like a Ford truck. Place it even with the bottom and trim the bottom edge then slide it down to cover the seal. Tack in place use the sharpie to make a line. You don't have to go all the way up and down just enough to make a straight edge. Use a 24 inch ruler, it will reach all doors. I go about 3/16 if an inch on the outside of my sharpie edge. Hope that helps

[@krissartin2996]

I have been doing this for about a year now. One thing I really like about this method is that if the window shifts when you roll it down you can remark it and there won’t be any light gaps when the window is rolled down part way.

[@junkbox93]

I've used this method several times. For a straight edge, cork back stainless rulers are the best.

[@mdb1884]

I find the metallic sharpies are the only ones that show up on tint. I got a packet of 3, gold, silver and copper. They all work really well

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

Great video, Matt! never seen this method, but it seems to work well with a glass board. If someone is at home, I guess an old glass storm door would work well in a garage. I guess a person could figure out how to make it mobile.

[@brayoTints]

Thank you! This is the technique I was taught for safety reasons. I have insurance, but I’d rather not have to make that phone call. Time mula. Cutting it out doesn't take that much more time and it's a guaranteed method to not cut any black rubber.

[@ambermccormish4246]

Amateurs cut the rubbers

[@joshuamcbride483]

Storm doors make the perfect mobile glass, and you can get those at recycle centers.

[@CecilWraps]

Ive done this method for 2 years. I started with your method but i would sometimes accidentally cut the side rubber gasket. It works great doing two windows as well. Just make sure you really tack both windows 🤣

[@terrytaylor1187ify]

This what I do when I don’t want to pay for my plotter subscription lol

[@eclipseautomotivefilms2268]

Really good for beginners, really safe it will sort my problems with a new worker that always shakes when cutting straight on the glass, but definitely not the fastest way. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻.

[@VeeRagavan]

Bronze Sharpie is also very good, shows up great. What colour Sharpie did you use bro? I was wondered why you didn't use the Sharpie method in the first place, it does make life easier.

[@mdb1884]

I was wondering the same thing, that looks like a grey sharpie but the one I bought is practically invisible on tint!

[@VeeRagavan]

@@mdb1884 hahaha I know I got a silver one and couldn't even see it on the tint! The bronze Sharpie so far been good, shows up on 5% very well.

[@nsn2099]

Hi, Thanks for your vidio tutorials. I am learning from you. I wanna start this business and wanted to ask you for advice. I wanna open it from my garage. What should I do. I liked your floor. Is it a mat or foam mat. Where can I get the same one? Thanks so much please keep making more videos, maybe in the future I will buy products from your store for my shop.

[@allicks9220]

Really useful video for beginners, thanks for putting this up.

[@slhines7]

Wow, very impressed with this little new to me trick.

[@2exiw]

For a beginner. What size of film would you recommend. 24. 30. 32. 36. What would be a good size for a big roll.

[@terrytaylor1187ify]

You can also use an white china marker instead of a sharpie

[@FrankA-973]

I like your glass board where can I find one like that? Great videos, I’m learning from you ❤

[@SoonerState]

This is how I chose to go out of fear of damaging a customer's car, because when learning on my Honda civic i chopped up my seals enough that a customer wouldn't be happy about. I am mobile and am able to fit a glass board in my car. Only thing I do different is, drawing a line for the bottom edge as well. Especially with that back window having a curved edge. I would've drawn that and like a F-150 front door with that sight s curve. For that, I draw that bottom edge, but cut it straight across first. Then shrink. Then go back to glass board and cut out the curve.

[@TimmyTints]

why not just use a factory edge off the roll as your bottom edge? :o

[@SoonerState]

@Tim Ree I didn't give that a try at all. Felt like I would be guessing a bit more. Plus, I essentially do a double cut sharpie method. So adding the line made sense to me. I have still messed up and still cut the bottom edge too short a time or two.

[@staydre2123]

What glass board did u get

[@terrytaylor1187ify]

This how I’ve been tinting for years

[@Robin-cu5ls]

Hi how to tint hatchback and deep quarter window easy way like MG ZS EV 2023.

[@adrianrubio408]

Awesome im going to try this on Monday :)

[@rishimistry9322]

How did it go?

[@TimmyTints]

Would a big a$$ mirror from, say, a bathroom work for a glass board?

[@CecilWraps]

Yes. I do this method with a regular glass but mirror is about the same, just that reflective on the mirror may have you double thinking if youre moving too fast. Or atleast it did with me 😅

[@Wingnut_]

I don't have a cut board still and use scissors to cut my sides and bottoms. Really need a steady hand for that method

[@Slowisfast-11]

Or use a ruler

[@Wingnut_]

@@Slowisfast-11 you missed the point of not cutting on the car and not having a peel board. Where would I use the ruler? On the floor? 🤣

[@Slowisfast-11]

@@Wingnut_ umm buy one Then cheap ass

[@Slowisfast-11]

@@Wingnut_ and you don’t need a steady hand for this method just a ruler 📐

[@Wingnut_]

@@Slowisfast-11 where you gonna use the ruler Mr Shakey hands

[@mrmidnight32]

“How to cut tint with a sharpie” *Instantly pulls out razor to start the video* 😂

[@tom98vr4]

What if I had a big piece of plexiglass as a mobile glass board. Does it have to be really clean?

[@DetroitTintStudio]

Plexi works just will scratch up faster than glass. But glass isn’t practical to take around so u have limited options

[@MarkJohnson-cv5ew]

I've been doing this method for a very long time and double cut at the same time

[@tdtommy196]

I have an F150 and the bottom of the fronts are not straight across. They kind of slope down half way through. Can I just line the tint up with the lowest part of the front and then tuck all that material on the high side in when I install, since there will be unexposed glass down there anyway?

[@caitlin2126]

🤔can you remove tint without ruining anything? 😊

[@daninvan2023-xh7fk]

Glass board.. tempered glass? It would be a good idea right (harder glass)?

[@martinlandaverde403]

Thank you.

[@terrytaylor1187ify]

I double cut using this method

[@edwinbab3205]

Im new do i need get special tools or the ones come with tint small plastic and cutternis enough

[@lm8098]

Great tutorial!...just wondering what blade (green) do you use to trim the top? Is that a carbon blade? Thanks in advance

[@DetroitTintStudio]

Yea it’s a plastic knife with a very thin carbon blade 313tint.com/collections/all-tint-tools/products/top-edge-plastic-knife-with-thin-carbon-blade

[@todd2058]

Use the front windshield to cut if lol you got no glass board handy lol

[@christophern780]

Mobile glass board option.. Your own rear windscreen?

[@neilholland4427]

I wanna try this now

[@shimulh-o6y]

Can you give me a link to the tint glass board ?

[@jakeostler6110]

I wonder how this style applies to windshields and backglasses

[@DetroitTintStudio]

People do it for thoes as well, I’d like to cover it in another video. But shine a light on the tint, mark the edges and cut out the window on a board.

[@thesloth944]

@@DetroitTintStudio I use this method but cut the lines on the car glass for mobile, I simply fear cutting into the seals, thanks for the video

[@kingstouch8434]

I use this method it works great for beginners 💯

[@MrJhonyfive5]

You are the fucking king thanks so much makes me easy everything

[@ksich8142]

My first time tinting I cut the rubber gasket/seal and was so mad. I now use a credit card and drag it against the rubber with my razor resting on the other side and drag it all together

[@bossup2005]

Were do I get a board like that from

[@mucheywaelvin8448]

Great technique

[@kkp4297]

most people have a shower door to cut on

[@clearvuwindowtint]

❤

[@1elliwigy]

If you dont got glass to cut on just put it on the windshield

[@rishimistry9322]

Don’t you risk stratching it on a more expensive piece of glass

[@muhammadraees6398]

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