Street Dreams Detail - Beefy Correction on Hammered LS460

Excellent write up! You and Todd both do amazing write-ups on your current/past projects. I aspire to be like one of you guys some day! That LS looked like the Lincoln I just did. The whole car could have been wet sanded and polished, i was not impressed lol. I was going to post pictures, but my camera dumped on me :(

When you wet sanded the trunk lid did you do the entire thing? From edge to edge and front to back? If so do you use your DA to do all the way to the edges? I've been wet sanding partials and completes for about 10 years, mostly by hand, except if the space is big and open then I'll use a DA. I guess my question is if you do a complete panel do you hand sand the edges or use your DA?

Also I cant tell from the pictures or the before/after video, but can you tell a difference in person with the orange peel in the paint from the trunk lid to the rear quarters? Thats the biggest pit fall I have when I wet sand out scratches, really on any car/truck is that I'll knock down the orange peel of the clear and then I'm left with one perfectly smooth panel and the rest have orange peel. How do you get past this?

Thanks!

Michael
 
mikeyg402 said:
Excellent write up! You and Todd both do amazing write-ups on your current/past projects. I aspire to be like one of you guys some day! That LS looked like the Lincoln I just did. The whole car could have been wet sanded and polished, i was not impressed lol. I was going to post pictures, but my camera dumped on me :(

When you wet sanded the trunk lid did you do the entire thing? From edge to edge and front to back? If so do you use your DA to do all the way to the edges? I've been wet sanding partials and completes for about 10 years, mostly by hand, except if the space is big and open then I'll use a DA. I guess my question is if you do a complete panel do you hand sand the edges or use your DA?

Also I cant tell from the pictures or the before/after video, but can you tell a difference in person with the orange peel in the paint from the trunk lid to the rear quarters? Thats the biggest pit fall I have when I wet sand out scratches, really on any car/truck is that I'll knock down the orange peel of the clear and then I'm left with one perfectly smooth panel and the rest have orange peel. How do you get past this?

Thanks!

Michael
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Good questions. I do not sand all the way to an egde, I live a tiny "security gap" if you will. On that trunk you see it curves downward on both sides, I did not sand below those curves either as there were just about 3" worth of area and that would have left zero room for my "security gap". I cant deal with sanding scratches in places I cannot properly compound either, that area would have been one of them.

As for orange peel luckily Lexus paint is pretty flat to begin with, even on doors there is very little OP. I tried to find a discernible difference in gloss between the hood and trunk and really could not see it, however in the garage the clarity and flatness of the trunk seemed a bit more obvious, of course that could be my subconscious simply knowing I sanded that area.

I feel a lot of detailing is perception and this accounts for so much when it comes to products also. People spend more on certain product and suddenly their eyes perceive a better finish. I guess you can say that about anything, put on a more expensive suit, feel like a better man :confused:
 
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