OK....I am going to say this one last time. YOU DO NOT WET SAND YOUR BASE COAT BEFORE APPLYING THE CLEAR!!! I have said it a dozen times on here through the years, but I guess people are stubborn or just don't want to listen. Or there is someone on here who thinks you should and is preaching it to everyone. .
and anyone who believes you are supposed to is following some bad advice/information.
and any of you who are taking 600, 800...even up to 2000 grit and smoothing off your base coat...well, here's the thing. that clear needs to grip to something. that would be the roughish surface of the base coat. sanding that off is just increasing the chance that your clear will eventually flake off.
PLUS, the base coat is designed to get it's "depth" from the paint "atomizing" or something like that, and the various pigments "settle" onto the surface is an overlapping fashion....which is what gives you your depth. sanding all that off and making it smooth basically turns your painted surface into more of a checker board type surface, instead of a 3 dimensional surface.....which means NO DEPTH.not all your depth comes from the clear, you know.
Do you get where I am coming from here? Painting is an art form. part of that art is learning how to lay your color(s). especially metallic. the art in laying metallic is your base mixed VERY WELL (which means you gotta shake the sh*t out of a rattle can), so that the metallic will mix uniformally. anyone who has ever bought metallic paint in a can will tell you that after not to long sitting on a shelf, all that metallic settles to the bottom of the can. bigger the can, the thicker the "sludge" of metallic on the bottom. you actually have to dig in a bit to loosen it up.then you need to spray it evenly....and LEAVE IT LIKE THAT.
anyhoo...back to my point. sanding your basecoat, imho, turns your paint job to "inferior"....unless you are using a fleet color. you know....a solid color. no metallic at all. Go ahead and sand if you want to...not my concern. I am just telling you straight up....it's bad avice and a total myth that is the way you are supposed to do it. See all these nice colors on cars? beautiful colors...full of depth. you think they sand the base coat? they don't. all robotics. on goes the base, it flashes, then on goes the clear. never seen no robotic sanders. have you?
DO NOT SAND YOUR BASE COAT BEFORE CLEARING!!
but hey....that's just advice. follow it or not. I don't really care. I am just trying to help you improve your paint jobs. wet sanding your base coat amounts to nothing but more prep time, and making your paint job inferior to what it could be. you are basically making your paint job "shallow, because you wet sand off all the depth. You may think your paint job looks great...and it probably does, but put another bike with the same paint job without wet sanding, beside your bike, and a good eye will see the difference. I would. I spot those things.
ok...rant done. I just happened to see one too many conversations going on about wet sanding the base coat, and well....you just ain't supposed to do it and you should stop.
oh...and don't go pointing me to any sites who say you should. I will stick to the car companies way, and the paint manufacturers suggestion. not one will tell you to wet sand the base coat. The ONLY thing you should be runnng over the base coat is a tack rag, and that's it.
here...this is the jist of it. well explained. http://www.easypaintyourcar.com/CarP...tcarpaint.html
and anyone who believes you are supposed to is following some bad advice/information.
and any of you who are taking 600, 800...even up to 2000 grit and smoothing off your base coat...well, here's the thing. that clear needs to grip to something. that would be the roughish surface of the base coat. sanding that off is just increasing the chance that your clear will eventually flake off.
PLUS, the base coat is designed to get it's "depth" from the paint "atomizing" or something like that, and the various pigments "settle" onto the surface is an overlapping fashion....which is what gives you your depth. sanding all that off and making it smooth basically turns your painted surface into more of a checker board type surface, instead of a 3 dimensional surface.....which means NO DEPTH.not all your depth comes from the clear, you know.
Do you get where I am coming from here? Painting is an art form. part of that art is learning how to lay your color(s). especially metallic. the art in laying metallic is your base mixed VERY WELL (which means you gotta shake the sh*t out of a rattle can), so that the metallic will mix uniformally. anyone who has ever bought metallic paint in a can will tell you that after not to long sitting on a shelf, all that metallic settles to the bottom of the can. bigger the can, the thicker the "sludge" of metallic on the bottom. you actually have to dig in a bit to loosen it up.then you need to spray it evenly....and LEAVE IT LIKE THAT.
anyhoo...back to my point. sanding your basecoat, imho, turns your paint job to "inferior"....unless you are using a fleet color. you know....a solid color. no metallic at all. Go ahead and sand if you want to...not my concern. I am just telling you straight up....it's bad avice and a total myth that is the way you are supposed to do it. See all these nice colors on cars? beautiful colors...full of depth. you think they sand the base coat? they don't. all robotics. on goes the base, it flashes, then on goes the clear. never seen no robotic sanders. have you?
DO NOT SAND YOUR BASE COAT BEFORE CLEARING!!
but hey....that's just advice. follow it or not. I don't really care. I am just trying to help you improve your paint jobs. wet sanding your base coat amounts to nothing but more prep time, and making your paint job inferior to what it could be. you are basically making your paint job "shallow, because you wet sand off all the depth. You may think your paint job looks great...and it probably does, but put another bike with the same paint job without wet sanding, beside your bike, and a good eye will see the difference. I would. I spot those things.
ok...rant done. I just happened to see one too many conversations going on about wet sanding the base coat, and well....you just ain't supposed to do it and you should stop.
oh...and don't go pointing me to any sites who say you should. I will stick to the car companies way, and the paint manufacturers suggestion. not one will tell you to wet sand the base coat. The ONLY thing you should be runnng over the base coat is a tack rag, and that's it.
here...this is the jist of it. well explained. http://www.easypaintyourcar.com/CarP...tcarpaint.html
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