Mastering Clearcoat Blends: Achieve Undetectable Fade-Outs with Blending Reducer

Welcome to an insightful demonstration on how to create seamless clearcoat blends using blending reducer for perfect fade-outs. This video takes you on a step-by-step journey through the process, ensuring you can replicate the results for flawless paint jobs.

Whether you're a seasoned professional or a DIY enthusiast, mastering the art of clearcoat blending is a skill that can elevate your painting projects to a new level. Our video focuses on the utilization of blending reducer fade-outs to produce undetectable transitions between old and new clearcoat.

From the initial application to the final buffing, we'll guide you through each stage, ensuring you understand the technique and can apply it confidently to your own projects.

If you've been looking to improve your clearcoat blending skills, or if you're simply fascinated by the process, this video offers a comprehensive look at how the pros do it. Join us and take your clearcoat blending skills to the next level!



Chapters
0:00 Paint Prep
0:40 Applying Basecoat
1:10 Applying Clear (1st Coat)
1:38 Applying Clear (2nd Coat)
1:55 Applying Clear Blender
3:00 Polishing (Coarse Compound)
3:18 Polishing (Fine Compound)
3:23 Final Paint Result

[ryanshirk]

It also helps when you are buffing the blend to keep the rotation of the buffing pad going with the blend not against the clear edge. Not as much chance of it peeling back. Great video.

[blainepytlewicz]

I discovered this stuff the other day at my local paint shop and it’s heaven sent. It saves so much time and paint. Also it helps when you have a simple demo like this to go by! Thanks.

[Jpcars]

Nice to see a blend job done so people can understand the method great video

[rickw.]

Great presentations are rare. I like the way you combined old school methods with new school products. Keep up the good work!

[THIRSTYGUMS]

one of the best ive seen, a lot of people say its impossible

[kuntz]

Thank you so much Ive watched a ton of these videos and this is the only one with a nice close up of the reaction of the blending solvent working. Great video took me a week to find this video but I'm glad I did.

[MrMuffanga]

The best blend I've ever seen. Is from my current painter at work. He can blend dead middle of a panel and you will never see the edge. His trick is just scuffing with a grey scuff pad. And doing the blend and using the hot reducer like you're supposed to. Then wetsanding it and then buffing it

[mikecrawford]

New to blends I always just did the entire panel .Just did my first blend and I wasn’t hopeful but it came out very good.It’s very useful to take the time to learn blends.Another technique in the learning tool box.IMO the entire panel is better but blending has so many possibilities and uses.

[jackpecora]

Worked great, tried on screaming yellow D6 I’ve been painting for less than a year correcting for 10, this is an excellent tip! Thanks

[GarageNoise]

Great teaching! I like to buff away from the blend. new sub

[stevejanka]

Good afternoon, excellent blend. Another trick that I use to make that blend line go away is a clay bar. It really works great. Take care and good luck.

[mrcool]

Great video. Short and quick to the point. No technical terms professionals use that the novice painters won't understand or have to look up. Now alls I have to do is practice.

[MILEVOJVODA]

I spray blending solvent on edge before base coat to soft old clear, and after clear coat like you .

[luisvazquez]

This is a very helpful blend video thank you for posting...

[ej_felipe]

I tried only buffing where the new clear meets the old clear and worked pretty good but I've always wanted to try these clear blenders so that's on my next job thanks for the good explanation

[joelblauvelt]

Great! One question: Are you spraying the blender onto the Fresh clear, and the Un-cleared, prepped area with fine scratches that the clear barely hit, and the original clear??

[cecif]

Very nice ! Giving me hope for my project !

[js-amg]

Old school before blending solvents came in, painters would water down the clear with thinners to blend the panel in. Something like 60-30% thinners to clear.

[rekoatskustoms]

Great tips been watching you for about 5 years now and I'm starting to get into. Blending

[mrrustyshackleford]

what specific blending solvent are you using in this video, great video.thanks