"Glaze"

Many people actually believe the "glaze" is the ultimate product for show cars only....
great threat....:bigups
 
Good info here, this is also like the confusion with the new term ""nano tech" with "acrylic polymers" that cross linked each to create a "pure" coat of sealed protection.

Or i guess too much saturated info over the internet without actually having to personally try each those products confuses someone newb like me. Sometimes the name actually didnt include the word "glaze" but the description actually indicates "glazing" the surface for "superior shine" of the paint.....

Ive read mike phillips definitions of terms and i think glaze falls between final polish to LSP. I could be wrong tho. Thats why I am very thankful for being part of forums like these that help feed my ignorance(and others) on detailing world --products.
 
so I used black hole, then natty's blue the other day on my trunk lid to see if it would hide some light marring. Not sure if someone rested something on the lid but there are a bunch of marks on one isolated spot only that is visible only at a certain angle.

I let the BH haze, then put the natty's right over it. Once that hazed, I wiped both off. Didn't hide a thing. Do you think the swirls were too minor to be filled? I used a foam pad by hand but people say BH really makes a difference by machine.

Didn't feel like busting out the GG6 and messing up a black pad just to do the lid though.

thoughts?
 
so I used black hole, then natty's blue the other day on my trunk lid to see if it would hide some light marring. Not sure if someone rested something on the lid but there are a bunch of marks on one isolated spot only that is visible only at a certain angle.

I let the BH haze, then put the natty's right over it. Once that hazed, I wiped both off. Didn't hide a thing. Do you think the swirls were too minor to be filled? I used a foam pad by hand but people say BH really makes a difference by machine.

Didn't feel like busting out the GG6 and messing up a black pad just to do the lid though.

thoughts?


Good question. Old school glazes usually featured some type of oil and solid product (usually kaolin clay) which would lay in the swirl marks and help hide them. There was little benefit to applying with a machine (perhaps time savings).

However, with newer glazes, they may be engineered to product better results when applied with friction.

Also it is usually the minor swirl marks that a glaze will hide, while leaving the deeper ones behind.
 
Todd, wouldn't it be the other way around?

If swirls are deeper, then the "fillers" would be able to get down into the swirl to fill it, rather than be pulled out of shallower swirls by the normal action of wiping the product off?

I dunno, I look at it like patching drywall. Sometimes, you have to make a small gouge larger so the drywall compound has more of a surface to grip, or it won't bond as well to the original surface.
 
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