How To Fine Sand or “Feather Sand” Touchup Paint

No, there aren’t any real feathers used to repair automotive paint. It’s a pro trick called feather sanding. Feather sanding or “feathering” refers to the featherlight, soft touch used to blend in repairs and imperfections using ultrafine grit sandpaper as the first step in making paint repairs. This easy to do technique turns the different paint layers on the surface to be painted silky smooth- the perfect paint surface! Feathering helps the touchup paint blend with the surrounding paint and virtually disappear. Feather sanding is a sanding technique used in the body shop industry to make a repair seamless. Damage to the old paint should be feather sanded out in a way that you do not see the damage.