Well, I was on my final pass with the StewMac "fine" compound using their drill-mounted buffing pads when I encountered yet another set-back.
The pad on the buffing wheel is mounted to a plastic disc. While buffing out the tight portion of the waist I did not notice that I had depressed the pad to the point that the plastic disc had made contact with the clear and left several deep scratches.
I think I know what I have to do, but nonetheless, would entertain more experienced advice.
My thinking is I need to sand out the scratches then respray the area and blend/feather in the edge.
It was sprayed with nitro professionally. I do have some stew-mac nitro spray cans to attempt the touchup.
My other concern is that there is now buffing compound added to the equation which must be dealt with.
I keep telling myself that with each mistake the recovery process only makes me that much better as a builder.
But ... I still wish I could just do it right the first time and skip all these lesson-the hard way sessions!
![[headinwall]](./images/smilies/headbangwalluf8.gif "Mad")
the phrase my luthier instructor always coined was "only failure questions the method"
Thanks in advance