The way we did the stripes on my car, my dad, the painter decided after conversing with many people to do it this way. I choose to use PPG DBU basecoat followed by 2020 clear. He first sprayed the base (orange), then we ate lunch (tape time is like 40 mins or something), came back taped rest of the car, put down the stencil kit and sprayed the white. Then, took a short brake, removed the tape, cleared the whole car. After spraying the clear, we stopped for the day. The next two days my dad rubbed out the car with 1000, 1200, and 1500 wet, then he recleared it. After reclearing it, he wet sanded it with 1200, 1500, 1800, and finally 2000 grit sandpaper. Then he buffed it up with an electric buffer, foam and cotton wheels with 3M's pefect it II. The car turned out great. This was his first ever time spraying bc/cc. The stripes are very nice, there are only a few spots where you can feel them, for the most part, you can not even feel the slight resemblence of a stripe if you have you eyes closed and are trying. I think the key to the entire paint job was the reclearing and then sanding clear down to 2000 grit, there is no orange peal, at least none to speak of on the entire job and I believe this is why the stripes don't have any edges.
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Bryan Shook
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