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Apply Final Coat and Remove Tape

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STOP Paint Bleeding Under Tape | Painting Straight Lines

What happens here

Once the white base coat is dry, apply the final dark blue paint color over the tape. After painting, immediately remove the tape while the dark blue paint is still wet to prevent 'bridging' or 'sharks' teeth' (peeling of the dried paint film). Observe the quality of the paint line and note any minor imperfections.

Tools and materials

  • Small Paint Roller
  • Dark Blue Flat Paint

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it's like that's on my last tape line right there and we've painted the white on it's been you know probably 30 minutes um maybe 30 45 minutes now I'm going to paint over it you can already see uh the tape is lifted up on some of the edges so this method is um you know never as foolproof as caulking grain frog tape but we'll just look and see how it is this is not too bad I mean I did I painted it all the way down but it bled pretty bad on the bottom but fairly straight and stuff but you can see why if you really needed a perfectly straight line you know painting the other color over the top you know it's not as great of a method as doing the um frog tape method I did this method for years and years it's got to be very particular about pressing your tape down you'll really good and tight before you paint over the top of it with your underlying color [Music] now I'll give you you know kind of one last tip you know if you don't have access to caulking if you don't want to use coffee and if that's a little intimidating to you if you don't want to use this method um just use frog paint green and if you're really particular about pressing your tape down with your fingers the pads of your fingers I'm going to press that down really good really tight it's going to mold to those Peaks and valleys there's a good chance if you're using frog tape green or frog tape Blue Frog tape blue and frog tape yellow also have the same polymer on the outside of the tank frog tape yellow is for delicate surfaces frog tape blue is the same as a

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