kace wrote:Dreww wrote: The counter guy at the paint store said to make sure to us a high quality reducer as the cheaper ones will give it that overly metallic appearance, any truth to this?
While it's a good idea in general to use quality materials - I use ********** myself - this particular claim seems like drivel to me. Typical counter guy baseless claim.
The counter guy is actually 100% correct. Reducers are blends of solvents. The expensive solvent in the blend is the 'tail solvent' and will leave a grainy or overly metallic appearance if left out of the blend. Had a painter who was having trouble with his blends, he could always see his blend line on metallics. He was using a cheap reducer, he switched to same line as he was spraying (PPG) and he could no longer see his blend.
My first piece of advice would be a better reducer. Get your gun setup, overlap and distance down right. You can take 1 metallic color and get 3 colors by changing psi and gun distance alone.