STIKK 3 Pack 1/4" inch x 60yd Yellow Painters Tape 14 Day Easy Removal Trim Edge Thin Narrow Finishing Masking Tape (.25 in 6MM)

Description

Yellow painters tape is a multi-use tape featuring a specially formulated, medium tack adhesive. This works for textured and semi-rough surfaces which gives the tape the tackiness it needs to adhere to your surface but still allows for clean removal for up to 14 days. If not overheated, your surface will be damage free and clear of residue. Painters tape is also UV resistant, so it can be used for both indoor and outdoor applications. Please NOTE: Surfaces must be clean, dust free, and dry before application. While the surface of the tape is moisture resistant the adhesive is definitely not. The adhesive is pressure sensitive and heat activated. Make sure you really press it firmly into place when applying and get it as warm as possible in the room to secure the adhesive. The dryer and warmer the installations are, the better the adhesive will attach. REMOVE ASAP! The adhesive in painters masking tape is known as semi-permanent removable. If you leave it on for over a month then you will have great difficulty removing it. It will tear and leave residue behind. Review: No good - Useless for my purposes. I normally use delicate surface frog tape to edge my paintings - it works well on every surface I've tried, though you have to take care removing it with watercolour paper. I wanted some narrower tape for doing borders, so I thought I'd try this. Just no point at all. It didn't stick well at all to the (fully dry) acrylic base coat - ends kept lifting - and thanks to the crepe-y texture of the paint, it allowed the paint to creep through and make little lines, not a clean edge. Worse, with my gilding size, it actually sucked the the adhesive (essentially dilute pva) under the tape, and did exactly the opposite of what I was trying to do! Might be ok for thick paints if applied carefully, or if you apply base coat, tape, base coat along the edge of tape, then new colour over the top...but that's not what I was going for! Definitely test on a sample first! Review: Perfect masking tape - I had done some research regarding the significance of the yellow color of this masking tape. Found out that yellow means it has better masking properties than the blue or green. My experience is that this is exactly right for this 1/4" wide yellow tape. It was a joy to work with and produced a crisp bleed-free edge. I was using Testor's gold oil-based paint on black, so bleed would have ruined the effect. Application of the tape was easy, with just enough stretch to produce perfectly smooth gentle curves. I left it applied for nearly a week before removing and had no trouble with it coming off cleanly.