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Troubleshoot Fish Eye with Brushing

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Painting Trim Using Lacquer Toner. FISHEYE RESOLVED!

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What happens here

During the application, a significant problem known as 'fish eye' was encountered. Fish eye appears as small craters or dimples in the finish, often caused by surface contaminants. Simply spraying more lacquer over fish eye usually doesn't resolve the issue effectively. As an improvisation, a technique was developed to work with the imperfection: immediately after spraying the tinted lacquer over the affected area, a chip brush is used to lightly brush over the wet finish. This technique blends the finish, creating an 'antique' or 'glazed' look that effectively camouflages the fish eye. This method avoids the need for extensive stripping and re-lacquering, providing an acceptable aesthetic solution for the client. The video shows this technique being applied to a door jamb.

Goal: This step addresses a common finishing problem, 'fish eye,' explaining its appearance and introducing an improvised brushing technique to camouflage it when re-spraying isn't feasible.

Tools and materials

  • Chip Brush
  • Tinted Lacquer (already sprayed)

What they say

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heavy you can never go back really so you can always go darker but you can't go lighter that's one of the characteristics with lacquer toners is we can't make this look any lighter but we can make it look darker and we can do a lot of different things with it and we did run to a problem when I started working started spraying some of the door jams and doors we ran into a major fishee problem and so we kind of had to just work with that and the fishon with um the lacer TOA looks really good if you spray it on and you just did if you leave it but then with the fish IR problems we had to um kind of improvise and do something different and John's I I developed the technique of just taking a brush and we're just using a chip brush and brushing over the whole L Jam that has the fishee and kind of giv it what would you call like an antique look yeah it almost looks like glaze except now we don't have to go through the process again of putting a lacquer over the top of that glaz yeah so you kind of

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