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I thought feather edging on a blend was lazy, then a 30 year guy in Fresno showed me his way
I used to burn through a whole panel with 320 grit and a DA just to hide a blend, wasting pads and making way more work for myself, until a painter at a shop in Fresno named Vic watched me do it and asked why I was sanding past the blend at all. He showed me how a tight feather with 600 on a soft block keeps the edge invisible on silver, and after I tried it on a rear quarter last week the texture came out way flatter than my usual burn through method. How many of you were taught to feather way out past the blend, and did you ever switch to keeping it tight?
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kimr339d ago
Vic's trick works because of the film build, not the sanding. Silver metallic lays down thinner than you think, so when you feather 6 inches past the blend you're actually cutting into the clear and the base at different rates. Keep it inside 2 inches and the texture stays even because you're only knocking down the edge, not reshaping the whole panel. Most guys never figure that out because nobody explains why tight works, they just tell you to do it.
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