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polishing a "guard"
MC	04-25-2008 21:27:59
Member Posts: 723 Joined: 05-20-2007	Have any of you tried applying your polish guard at your 1500 grit stage and polish it instead of using a burnisher? I was wondering if this would work or if the diamonds would just kinda burn

cwalton	04-26-2008 06:40:21
Member Posts: 76 Joined: --	I have talked with a contractor who does that, Ive personally never tried, but it might be good to hear from others if you had , and it works. Sometimes you can get streaks in the guard that are hard to burnish out, and possibly the 1500 resins would help correct that. Craig

MC	04-26-2008 18:14:48
Member Posts: 723 Joined: 05-20-2007	I just tried it today with 800's and it didnt work too good. The resins got hot and the pentra guard burned onto them. Maybe 1500's would work I just didnt have any.

Jim Cuviello	04-27-2008 11:19:26
Member Posts: 151 Joined: --	We have done it twice. The first time the guard was down for a month. We used "50" resins and it looked like a million bucks. Mile this was the orange Trader Joe's in DC. We went back a second time to help do some touch up work. The second time we tried was with 1500 resins about an hour after the guard was applied. It gooed up and looked like crap. We have a bunch of guard on the floor from our last class that we are going to play with and see what happens. I will let you know what we find. I think it has to be fully cured before you screew with it with diamonds.

MC	04-27-2008 20:59:20
Member Posts: 723 Joined: 05-20-2007	I was wondering because I had to do some touch up work along some edges after the guard was applied. I had to grind through it but where I hit it with the resins it looked really good. With my hand grinder it didnt matter what grit I used, it didnt gum up and every grit polished it out nice. So I thought id try with some 800's on the machine and it didnt go too well. But it was only down for a little over a day.

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