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Well, you can buy it at BIG LOTS so as a rule I expect everything sold there to be poor quaity crap and basicly disposable.
bleeding isn't a matter of tape.. it's technique.
wanna elaborate?
Well so is Mean Green and I love that product!
If you simply lay masking tape down to make of certain areas and paint away you most certainly will end up with areas of bleeding.
My advice would be to use an old credit card to scrape the tape onto the surface (kinda like what you would do with a squeegee). Paint over it and while the paint is still wet, remove the tape.
It was my thread. I found it had a pretty weak adhesive compared to other painters tape. I use $3 shuretape now, and stay away from it. I believe for it to work properly it has to be used in certain ways under certain conditions for it to perform well.
"Frog Tape Sucks"
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=128398
Looking at that post and the pics, I'm gonna guess you trimmed the tape to fit the curvature of the artwork. Looking at the FrogTape video, It looks like they coat the edges (and only the edges) of the tape with some chemical. So essentially when you trim the edges of the tape you are removing that protective barrier. Anyone want to do an experiment and see if this is the case?
Lay down a strip and paint over it, and next to it, lay down another strip and trim the edges off with an xacto knife and paint over that. See which one keeps from bleeding.
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But you also used spraypaint. I'm pretty sure that's why frog tape didn't work for you, and I assume that's why. It worked 100% super crisp lines for me when painting latex on latex.
I agree that Frog Tape sucks ass - I recently painted my garage, and I used FT to mask the ceiling edges, and it sucked. An unacceptable amount of bleeding, and in some areas the tape wouldn't stick at all, but the standard blue tape would.
You are correct, in my experience Frog Tape does suck. Its very low adhesion tape meant to come off easy but ultimately it doesn't stick well enough and doesn't block paint like it says it does. I will stick with blue painters tape![]()