Hot Rods What do you use for guide coat?

The heading says it all.

 

I use semi gloss black spray paint. Dusted over the panel

 

3M dry.

 

I use the orange peel of the primer coat.

 

Squirrel has the easy way to do things as usual. Lloyd has the alternative way. The paint companies also have a product that you can use for extra cost.

 

Jim, LOL

 

x2 for the orange peel.

 

I use SEM guide coat aerosol and 3M dry Bill

 

I used to use spray paint, but this stuff changed my life.



Never clogs the paper, easy to see, I love it.

-Abone.

 

I just sand it and it ends up in the floor lol, use it so i don't miss a scratch or a low spot.

 

I've always used the cheapest black rattle can paint I can find. Never had a problem as it's usually all gone once it's straight.

 

I've never used a guide coat. As Jim and a couple of the others alluded to, you can do a good job without it. You just have to have lots of good light reflected at the optimum angle so you can see what the surface is doing as you sand it. I have a high intensity halogen spotlight for this purpose. Warms the area nicely, too.

Oh yeah. And these days...
... reading gl***es.

 

Although, I think a guide coat is absolutely useful because it can speed things up... especially in the early stages. But if I'm so close to my work and getting intimate with the surface, (BE the surface LOL) and working fast isn't top priority, a guide coat doesn't seem to help me much.

 

I only use satin or flat but I'm in the same boat. Anything gloss gums up the sandpaper. I go through a **** ton of it.

 

A light coat of a different color primer.
KK

 

Dewalt black chalk line powder. Same stuff as 3m and waaaaay less expensive. Just apply with a foam
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SEM for me

 

Anything used follows the same principle and processes.
The dry stuff (costs a little) saves you sandpaper that costs a lot. Spray can SEM works good too, but can go places you don’t want.
Contrasting primer is really nice if you’re doing a very large panel with a very long sanding board.

I like to use black primer. The sanded areas turn grey and the lows stay semi shiny black. When things are close and that black primer is sanded out to 400 it’s got a decent reflection dry. Wet it down and it’s like buffed black enamel and shows everything if you are a perfectionist **** nit picker.

 

Hey I've used black basecoat many times on an allover job

 

I use SPI epoxy primer. It dries with little sheen to it. As you block you can see the scuffed areas and the shiny areas. SPI is great stuff.

 

Cheap rattle can flat black. It has always worked well for me.

 

If I were intent on not having any scratches or low spots, I'd use guide coat, too. But I'm not that picky. Maybe I'm getting old.

 

I don't think scratches and low spots cause any measurable additional wind resistance in the quarter mile.

 

Hey you guys...
Merry Christmas.

 

Any left over rattle can junk. It all gets sanded off anyway.

 

I use the same House of Kolor KD3000 primer surfacer in contrasting colors guaranteeing compatibility with future coats.
I mix the guide coat thinner to insure good bond and flow into scratches etc.
Low spot and bare spots on hood are ready for another coat without worrying about adhesion.

 

Evercoat black 715 dont need no stinking guide coat





shows the lows and scratches easy...

 

What is this stuff? Powder? Is it orange?

Chalk box powder? Really? Blue OK?

 

I use the 3M dry stuff...great. I didn't know nits hung out in the **** area? Must be a hairy **** situation!