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Performing a Dab Touch-Up on a Small Nick

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Cabinet TOUCHUPS! The Art of Touch-Ups

What happens here

For small nicks on a cabinet door, select a very fine artist's brush. Dip the brush into the lacquer, taking only a small amount. Gently dab the lacquer directly onto the nick, avoiding any brushing motion. Repeat this process for two to three coats, allowing sufficient drying time between each coat, typically around 5 minutes, to prevent pulling up the previous layer. Priming is not necessary for small nicks if the underlying surface is already coated with lacquer.

Goal: Conceal small nicks on surfaces using the dabbing technique.

Tools and materials

  • Fine Artist's Brush The Idaho PainterPrecisely applying lacquer to small nicks
  • LacquerFilling and covering the nick

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to deal with this this Nick right here now, Zach. So, what are some of the things you're going to do when dealing with this nick? You're going to select the right brush. So, select the right brush. And then you don't want to just brush it. Like I was saying earlier, you just want to do it. So, we're just going to take a little bit of lacquer on the end of this. So, you're kind of just using a dobbing method where you're just going to do it on that nick and not brush it on. Correct. How many coats is it going to take? Um, it's typically going to take about two to three coats. I would say with this one, it's probably going to be three. And then you want to be careful with the the following coats as well. You don't want to just brush those cuz it's just going to pull the lacquer back up. So, we're just going to take a little bit on the end of this brush here and then just dab it. So, you're just going to dab it on there. We're not going to worry about priming it. It's just a small nick. The previous coating underneath was lacquer and just going to dab it right on there. Now, the lacquer is really thin. We're not spraying it on. It's really thin. So, we're just going to dab it on. And like Zach said, we'll let that set for about five minutes and two or three coats. We do have another situation right here. We've got a door face. And this door face right here had some blemishes on it. And we're going to instead of, you know, dobbing or touching it up, we're going to have to sand it. And then we're going to have to reshoot it. So, I'm going to show you. Zach's got the spray can of lacquer. We've already sanded it and it's looking

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