New wool pad idea

RAG · 02-11-07, 10:09

For those of you with extensive experience with wool...I was wondering what your thoughts were on this design - basically, I'd like to get someone to make a lambswool pad glued to a foam pad.

Reasoning: I really like the very limited shedding of the flat lambswool pads, but they aren't easy to use cause they are so thin...they tend to hop and grab. On the other hand, thick twisted wool pads (like the 2-sided edge pads) are a little easier to use in that they don't tend to grap and hop so much, but man do they make a huge mess of shedding fibers. So I was thinking mating a flat lambwool pad on top of either white or green foam would make them more forgiving and simply easier to use.

porta · 02-11-07, 11:16

I have a special backing plate for my wool pads, it´s foam and then velcro. Works nice and eliminates the problem you are talking about.

You can se the backingplate on this picture behind the Menzerna FF bottle to the left, a orange "pad" with a wool pad on top.

RAG · 02-11-07, 11:29

Excellent. That would effectly accomplish the same thing. Even a foam pad (basically a spacer) with hook and loop on both sides would do the trick.

Where did you get the backing plate and what size is it?

porta · 02-11-07, 12:42

The "backing plate" is made by flexipads.com, a company in the UK. Think it´s 5" or 6"? Have it somewhere in the basement. I can go down tomorrow and take some pictures and post them here for you.

a little off topic, but I know you are a big fan of the green propel pads, I will get some of the green and blue. I have read that you finish out black paints with rotary+PO016FF, so do you ever use the blue ones?

rydawg · 02-11-07, 01:36

HAHA! I did that in the day and it worked!

Check out lake country's web site. They have a foamed wool pad designed for guys like us that love wool and foam combined. I am gonna order one this week. I think AG might have them also.

rydawg · 02-11-07, 01:57

how do you like your flex rotory?

RAG · 02-11-07, 02:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by porta

The "backing plate" is made by flexipads.com, a company in the UK. Think it´s 5" or 6"? Have it somewhere in the basement. I can go down tomorrow and take some pictures and post them here for you.

a little off topic, but I know you are a big fan of the green propel pads, I will get some of the green and blue. I have read that you finish out black paints with rotary+PO016FF, so do you ever use the blue ones?

I have several of the blue and white ones in each of the three models (now 4). There isn't a ton of difference between the blue and green, but every once in a while when using the blue and white foams I would notice that the pad would want to stick, or grip, the paint a little too much which always seemed to cause very slight halograms when this happened; the Green seemed to reduce or eliminate this grip effect...reducing the friction. I attribute this to the lower PPI. But even on non-sticky black paint, I found that I could finish down better with the green than I could with the white or blue, even though it seems counter-intuitive cause the green is "rougher" to the touch...I think more porous (lower PPI) does not tend to slam the abrasive particles into the paint as much (best explination I can come up with anyhow).

RAG · 02-11-07, 02:08

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Originally Posted by rydawg

HAHA! I did that in the day and it worked!

Check out lake country's web site. They have a foamed wool pad designed for guys like us that love wool and foam combined. I am gonna order one this week. I think AG might have them also.

I've seen the foamed wool, and have only received negative feedback...not quite what I was thinking.

RAG · 02-11-07, 02:11

Looked at the flexipads...seem like a pretty good idea. Not sure if the padding would be thick enough and soft enough to suit what I'm looking for though.