Your "gentleman" was not giving any facts worth while. What compound and why?
In any case, it is not necessary to apply a compound after sanding a ball. The final sanding may be the intended finish. These days many, many balls are stock, out of the box, 1000, 2000 or 4000 grit, with no additional application of any liquid/matter needed.
There many different types of "compounds", depending on what you want to do to the surface. So, saying just the word, "compound", is misleading, at best, completely wrong, at its worst.
Some compounds:
- ones that take a ball to a specific grit rating/level. Examples: Ebonite's Matte Finish takes a ball to 1200 grit with no polish; it should first be sanded to around 800 or 1200 grit, or it can be used to take the polish off a ball. Track's Clean and Smooth has been used to bring a ball to "1500 grit smooth", again, once a ball is within reasonable range, like sanded to 800, 1000 or 1200 grit. It can also be used to smooth out the reaction on balls with too high a level of polish.
There are also more aggressive levels of sanding liquids, like Neo-Tac's Liquid Sandpaper and Ebonite's Powerhouse Sand Blaster (Takes a ball to 400 grit, with no polish).
- There are "rubbing" compounds, which are similar to automotive rubbing compounds, They have both abrasives in them and small degree of polish in them. Brunswick's Rough Buff, Ultimate's Quick Kut and Polish, and Ebonite's Powerhouse Clean and Sheen (formerly a Track product) are examples of them. They can take fairly rough finishes, like 320 - 500 grit and smooth them put and leave a smoother and lightly polished finish on them. They can also be used on finer levels of sanding, like 800 - 2000 grit and also smooth them out and leave a higher level of polish.
On top of that, you can apply a polish (also a type of "compound") to any grit, from 400 grit, all the way up to 4000 grit. There are two basic types of polish; those which contain abrasives which will further smooth out the sanding grit level of the base ball, PLUS apply a level of polish, and those with no abrasive (like Brunswick's High Gloss polish and Legend's Factory Finish polish) which leave the base grit level of the ball unchanged and just apply polish to the ball. These are not called "compounds"; usuually just called polishes.
Again, it all depends on what you want from the ball.
Set your preferences back as far as they will go and read all the old posts to this forum. Also see the FAQ in my signature block.
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"None are so blind as those who will not see." Unofficial Ballreviews.com FAQEdited on 4/6/2008 1:08 PM
