Re: Buffing out lacquer

Posted by PackardV8 On 2015/6/14 21:27:36

Yes. I've had plenty of cars and motocycles painted with the ACYLIC laquer and the polishing cloth will always have some color to it. That's why it is important to apply laquer in many multiple coats. At least 6 coats, 8-12 coats better.

I have a laquer job here that i personaly painted back in 1971 or 1972. It still looks excellent except for some of it began to chip off about 2 years ago. Motorcycle tanks subject to high heat and other abuse. It will alwaays leave some paint residue on the polishing cloth or even sometimes on a cloth if i just wipe the dust off and not polished in while.

U mentioned swirl marks. Over the last 10 to 20 years i have often heard people complain of the swirl marks. That is actualy part of the beaaauty of the paint that once upon a time was considered most elegant. This loathing of swirl marks is just somekind of rather recent (last 20 years or so) trend.

I like them. My guesss is that modern resto-shops have scoffed at the swirl marks for the sole reason that they really don't want to shoot lacquer BECAUSE LACQUER REQUIRES near PERFECT metal finishing as in bump and dent removal.