Orange Peel Trouble

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I’m a really inexperienced painter (only a couple of vehicles) but spend a lot of time contemplating… so I’ll just chip this in: the most counterintuitive aspect of spraying is that having the gun too far from the surface creates more orange peel than having it too close.

Trying too hard not to hammer on too much paint by holding the gun away leads to an orange peel surface, at least in my shop. I manage amount of application by pace of gun movement and quality of application by gun setting and distance from the piece.

I don’t know what the experts would say.

That said: if your orange peel is in the clear, I personally would make sure I had enough clear on there and just manage with cut and buff.

Like what @fast 99 said, lots of things can cause that type of orange peel.