Do you guys (that’s a non-gender-specific “guys”, gals) use the same brushing technique on primer as you do on top coat? I seem to find myself doing more back-and-forth on primer.
All this is assuming brushing wood.
I feel like I “work in” primer, and “lay on” the top coat.
Anybody else notice a difference?
Forrest
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same both layers
Forrest,
My experience parallels yours. The brushing action with primer depends upon the age, species, and condition of the wood. The feeling when priming steel is almost the same as when topcoating it.
Bill
I notice this difference also. It's not night and day, but there is a difference. You'll probably also notice that you'll use more primer than topcoat because it's absorbed.
-Don
I don't use the same technique on primer at all. I do exactly as you do. The very final stroke of laying on a topcoat is called 'tipping' where the brush is held almost at a 90 degree and in one straight motion lightly dragged down the work. Same motion is used when brushing on a poly or a varnish finish.
Whatever works. You have to vary technique depending on the properties of the surface and the properties of the paint/primer. Plus the phase of the moon factors in somewhere.
Thanks guys - I dabbed on / brushed in BIN 123 on lots of short bitty bits of cedar today.
Forrest - rinsing my brushes and mind in alcohol
Forrest,
Don't know what kind of paint you're using.... but I bought a HVLP gun with the conversion kit to shoot latex paint this year. Man, this thing is sweet. I don't think I'd use it to shoot siding, but some of that woodwork you're building would be a breeze with this thing.
I bought it to paint a bunch of raised panel doors, and this thing puts a finish on that "I" could never seem to duplicate with a brush. 6 panel wood door- maybe two minutes per side, ......and I'm slow!
I find I load the brush heavier and lay the primer faster because it gets punky at the wet edge. Otherwise, I always paint the same directions: bottom to top, right to left. This insures that I'm always painting from dry to wet edge and minimize "punched paint" from the brush tip. I HATE seeing where the tip of the brush begins a stroke, and the prime coat is no exception.
Troy Sprout
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