Mike Phillips
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How-to Wetsand using the Scuff and Buff Technique - 1937 Ford Woody
Scuff & Buff is a term I coined a few years ago for LIGHTLY sanding paint to reduce orange peel, mottling and surface texture using high grit sanding papers or sanding discs.
Factory thin paint and custom paint with an unknown history
The Scuff & Buff Technique is for cars where the only way to make a major improvement in the D.O.I. and overall appearance is via sanding BUT - the paint is thin, like factory paint.
Or you have a car with a custom paint job, which normally means it has thicker paint BUT you don't have any background history on the car or more specifically, the paint. By this I mean, you don't know if it has been sanded once or twice? You don't know what kind of sandpaper or sanding discs were used? You don't know what kind of compound was used. These factors have a huge influence on how much paint is removed in the process and thus how much paint is left on the car.
Single Stage Metallic Paint
Also - I use this technique for reducing orange peel on single stage metallic paint jobs. The problem with sanding and even buffing on single stage metallic paint is that you are actually sanding and buffing ON the METALLIC FLAKE and if you sand or buff to much you leave a pattern in the paint that I call Tiger Stripes.
There's enough orange peel in this custom paint job that it distracts from the beauty of the car. The owner has given me permission to do th Scuff & Buff Technique to flatten out the paint to increase the D.O.I. and overall appearance value.
After the machine damp sanding, I'll be sealing the paint including the wood panels with a new coating and then writing a review.
Here's how she looks as pulled into the garage just moments ago...
The bumpy looking paint that surrounds the perimeter of the overhead florescent lights is Orange Peel.
You can see it here too....
Stay tuned....
Scuff & Buff is a term I coined a few years ago for LIGHTLY sanding paint to reduce orange peel, mottling and surface texture using high grit sanding papers or sanding discs.
Factory thin paint and custom paint with an unknown history
The Scuff & Buff Technique is for cars where the only way to make a major improvement in the D.O.I. and overall appearance is via sanding BUT - the paint is thin, like factory paint.
Or you have a car with a custom paint job, which normally means it has thicker paint BUT you don't have any background history on the car or more specifically, the paint. By this I mean, you don't know if it has been sanded once or twice? You don't know what kind of sandpaper or sanding discs were used? You don't know what kind of compound was used. These factors have a huge influence on how much paint is removed in the process and thus how much paint is left on the car.
Single Stage Metallic Paint
Also - I use this technique for reducing orange peel on single stage metallic paint jobs. The problem with sanding and even buffing on single stage metallic paint is that you are actually sanding and buffing ON the METALLIC FLAKE and if you sand or buff to much you leave a pattern in the paint that I call Tiger Stripes.
There's enough orange peel in this custom paint job that it distracts from the beauty of the car. The owner has given me permission to do th Scuff & Buff Technique to flatten out the paint to increase the D.O.I. and overall appearance value.
After the machine damp sanding, I'll be sealing the paint including the wood panels with a new coating and then writing a review.
Here's how she looks as pulled into the garage just moments ago...
The bumpy looking paint that surrounds the perimeter of the overhead florescent lights is Orange Peel.
You can see it here too....
Stay tuned....
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