What’s happening to the paint job?

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

Found this after a couple of clean coats of mirotone clear spray. Appear to be around the edges near the binding. I tried to polish it out but with no prevail.

Any ways to buff it out?

Thanks.




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[Sonic Mountain]

That looks an awful lot like you've cut through the top coat around the edges. To me it looks like the topcoat wasn't completely dry or the coat previous to it wasn't cut back at all before topcoat? It's kind of flaked off. What kind of product is the spray? Poly/Acrylic/Enamel/Varnish etc? You can probably give it a very gentle sand to blend the edge and recoat.

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

Acrylic. Mirotone cleat spray.

I polished on the edges first and left a few days. Maybe I didn’t wipe off the bit that went on the front and back and left it for 5 days.


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[Sonic Mountain]

Hmm not sure. As a general rule I don't polish the edges until the very end. With sharper ones I usually tape them to avoid cutting through the finish while blocking and polishing as they tend to wear down the quickest no matter how careful you are. They tend to take care of them selves in the final polishing stages.

The good news is that acrylic is very forgiving. Give it a light sand with 1200 or 1500 and re coat. You may want to get some prepsol or other wax and grease remover to clean off any polish residue before repainting (also good for making sure there is no dust on the job).

[Andy40]

I always wait at least 21 days before sanding cutting and polishing any spray coats