- Hey, this is Donnie Smith.
It is spring break this week,
but I've still got a video ready for you.
What we're gonna talk about today
is gloss clears and matte clears.
Had some questions from you on YouTube about the difference.
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Now, a couple years ago at the SEMA,
the mattes were really popular, but mostly the blacks.
But last year at SEMA, notice that there's a lot
of different colors that are matte and flat now,
including metallics and pearl coats.
We're gonna talk about that and the difference.
The question I got on YouTube was,
if I'm painting different colors,
I'll just use a matte clear on top of that
or sort of use the single stages,
'cause I have a video where I use single stage matte black,
and I demonstrate how to do that.
But if you're doing multiple colors,
it's gonna be much more simple
to paint it like you normally would.
Paint your black, your grays or whatever,
and then when you're finished painting everything,
come back with a matte clear on top over the entire surface.
That's gonna be much easier.
What I've got here, I did a test panel,
and it's got some of the different colors on here
just to see what they'll look like
with matte versus gloss clear, regular clear coat.
What this is, this is a epoxy primer down here,
and then we've got the primer sealer,
and this is a base coat for the
next three colors from here down.
This is a base coat for a tri-coat.
So this is base coat, this is the tri-coat
with one coat of the midcoat,
this is two coats of the midcoat,
and three coats of the midcoat.
And then we have just a silver.
It has nothing to do with the tri-coat,
and a gray just to see what some different metallics
would look like, and then from here up some black.
And then I cleared this half with regular clear coat
and I cleared this half with matte clear.
Now, the reason you'd want to do a panel like this
whenever you're painting something,
it doesn't have to be on a metal panel like this.
It can be on a spray out card that you're using
or whatever, but you put your prime down,
your prime color, and this is your midcoat.
This one happens to be pearl, although it could be candy,
some type of tinted clear, whatever.
But we're not gonna know, we're gonna look
at the, find the color and look
at the book and find the closest color,
but we're not sure how thick this is on the car.
With our spraying technique, and you want to spray this
as the exact same way you're gonna spray the car,
is the prime with one coat, the prime with two coats,
or the prime with three coats gonna match the car the best?
So you do the spray out, and then you're gonna take this
to the car, or the card or whatever you had sprayed,
and you're gonna match it to it.
You're gonna look at the car and you're gonna look
at these and decide, okay, the one
with three coats matches the best.
Then you know whenever you're painting the car,
you put three coats on and it's gonna be the best match.
Now, remember, it's important whenever you're painting this
and painting the car that you use the same technique.
If you paint this real heavy,
obviously two coats is gonna be more than
if you paint the car with two light coats.
So you gotta remember to keep the same amount of coats.
I don't know how good you can see this on the video,
but you can see the different colors, but I think some
of these pearled metallics look pretty cool in matte.
I still like the gloss, too, but let me get the Sun Gun.
Now, this is a Sun Gun, and what this is used for
is to help you match colors.
For example, if you're in a shop setting,
or I've got fluorescent lights here,
that's gonna throw off a different color.
This is gonna be a different color
in the sun than it is in here,
and you want to match cars according to the sunlight,
'cause that's where they are most of the time.
If you notice, you look at the sky or whatever,
there's a lot of blue, so it kind of gives off a blue tint.
That's how these are color-corrected.
If you'll notice in here,
this Sun Gun has some blue in there,
and it helps correct the color
so this will look like it will outside.
Plus, it'll shine brighter where maybe you can see some
of these pearls and metallics.
I don't know if you'll be able to see it from the video
or not, but you can kind of see
the difference between that and that.
You're gonna see the metallics
and pearls more with the clear coat.
They're not quite as distinct.
They don't pop quite as much as the matte,
but it does give it a pretty neat appearance.
We kind of move this up and down and see if,
I don't know if you'll be able to see any of that or not.
You can kind of see the difference.
Anyway, this helps make it pop
like it would outside so you can see the metallics
like they may outside, and the pearls,
and it also color-corrects it so you can see the color.
Like I said, everything's gonna be
a little bit different color,
but you look at that, that, these colors,
there's a little bit brighter, and then there's less light,
even though we have good lighting in here.
You can tell that they shift colors a little bit
with the different types of lighting.
I hope this helps answer the question.
I would definitely do all the different colors
and use a matte clear if I was doing a car.
This gives you an example, and I wanted to see myself
what some of the metallics and pearls look like.
I'll be experimenting some more.
Now, pearls, they're really gonna shift around curves
and things like that, around fender edges,
and of course this is just all flat
so it doesn't do it any justice,
but maybe I'll do a fender or something,
something that does have the curves and the roundness to it
and take it out in the sun and shoot another video later
with some of these matte pearls so that you can see that.
Hopefully this gives you an idea for now.
And another question that was asked,
they said that they use DuPont.
I know most of the stuff I've used here is PPG,
the Waterbornes, the Shop-Line is a lower lying PPG.
But he asked about DuPont.
I'm not that familiar with DuPont,
but I'm sure all major lines have a matte clear.
I know Keystone has a matte clear, PPG,
but I would say just check with your supplier.
They'll be able to tell you if they have a matte clear
or some additive you could put
in your clear to make it matte clear.
So, that wraps up this video for matte clears,
and if you have any other questions,
be sure and leave a comment right below
and I'll try to get it answered for you.
Other than that, have a great spring break,
and we'll talk to you next week.