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Well I have to admit, I'm not exactly thrilled with my polishing skills. After the third coat, I gave it another once over with 1000 grit, hand polished with some turtle wax polishing compound and finished it off with carnauba wax. The beautiful gloss of the paint after the third coat is gone, replaced by an endless haze of swirl marks.


if you're going to try to polish out by hand, then you're going to have to sand with progressively finer paper grits. there's no way you can work out 1000 grit sand marks by hand. move on to 1200/1500 -> 2000 -> 2500/3000. there are limits to what you can do by hand. even if you were going to polish out by machine i'd suggest you sand down to at LEAST 1500 grit otherwise you'd be wasting a lot of time and product.