Is Wet Sanding Dangerous or Bad Practice?

mrclean81 said:
If you watch old episodes of American Hotrod, Boyd's guys would start out at 800 grit, even on a car painted by Charlie Hutton (if you dont know who that is, Google him). Granted thats on a fresh repaint and not factory clear, but its still the same concept.
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I know of one painter in Southern California that blocks each coat with 600 grit until the final coat which is blocked with 800 first as well. Then the car is parked in the desert for at least 6 months before being blocked once again with 800 grit.

His paint jobs cost upwards of 60k and there is a LONG waiting list to get him.
 
Todd Helme said:
I know of one painter in Southern California that blocks each coat with 600 grit until the final coat which is blocked with 800 first as well. Then the car is parked in the desert for at least 6 months before being blocked once again with 800 grit.

His paint jobs cost upwards of 60k and there is a LONG waiting list to get him.
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All this in the process to avoid shrinkage and die back. Have worked on some of Juniors work (after many years of shows etc. damage) 1 of Charlie's when he was with Boyd. It's truly hard to describe the level of what they do till you have to fix a later repair to match.
It is a true process of perfection.
 
When I painted a long time ago, we always wet color sanded with a block using 600grit wet or dry paper.
It absolutely leveled quickly, uniformly, and there were compounds and wool/wool blend pads that could bring the color up beautifully.

A good Painter could also paint in the wet zone just enough to avoid runs and leave a very nice smooth finish with very little orange peel anyway.

Today, I see mediocre to pretty good painting but bad prep work showing even worse 40-60grit scratches, pigtails from using dirty paper with a DA improperly, and somehow the Painter didnt even correct and prime that mess and block it before painting...
Dan F
 
I see orange peel in new cars all the time, mine included, but I'm like - so what, it's not a trailer queen show car that gets used on the car show circuit.

I know I'll probably get that side ways look from ya'll, but honestly, if I could, I'd specify my cars to have some kind of Rhino /Line-x type paint. I saw that done by West Coast Customs (I think) and they did a satin black on a Caddy (again old memory here) anyway, it looked awesome! Hey, might be a new thing and catch on, I know I would buy it and give the old middle finger to worrying about chips, scratches, and wax!
 
Lou Bunn said:
I see orange peel in new cars all the time, mine included, but I'm like - so what, it's not a trailer queen show car that gets used on the car show circuit.
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I agree, wholeheartly... but since the Mazdaspeed3 is now a garage queen/fun car, I have been thinking about how flat can I make it... :rockon
 
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