correct final polish?

[tstew]

Please help

I am trying to achieve that jewel like super high gloss clear finish, except it will be on speaker cabs with exotic transtint wood. I have an HVLP sprayer, so far I have used General finishes “sanding sealer” as a base start layer, Then I have applied the clear coats, about 6 to 8 coats. I only want to work with waterbase clear coats. General finishes and Minwax hi gloss both seem to work. After wet sanding with 2000 grit, I am confused as to which final polish to use. I have an orbital polisher machine I got from “autogeek” which is fine. At first I tried “meguiares ultimate liquid wax” which was a mistake. It left a foggy haze on my work. Then I tried the tiny bottle from stewmac and it cleared it up a bit but the bottle is far too tiny and expensive. I keep hearing people talk about 3M “perfect it” and “finesse it II” So I looked up the two and got more confused, I saw one person state that only 3M rubbing compound # 39002 is all you need, but that seems far to coarse. So what is the one to use? There is “3M finess it II finishing material machine polish # 39003 and 3M perfect it 3000 ultra fine machine polish # 39062 and also 3M perfect it 3000 ultra fine swirl eliminator # 06069. I would be willing to use two in progressive stages. I just want that deep glass jewel look as seen on most guitars.

[bigtim]

I know some of those fancy guitar makers use a buffer with like a jeweler rouge on it and even gibson does it too. It is just a polishing compound. I fooled around a bit with some clear coats and I used believe it or not pieces of a paper bag like you used to get at the grocery store before they went to plastic. It works real well for polishing between clear coats. Stew mac has some good polishing stuff as well. Tim