The shiny-brushed hybrid has nothing to do with the black; totally different thing. I was asking two different things in one post and then went and added pictures to support one of them; maybe that wasn't smart.
Imagine taking a piece of brushed aluminum (or other metal), good quality, uniform appearance. Then giving it a
light buffing, so the brushed look is not gone (maybe diminished a bit) but a limited shine is superimposed on it. I imagine that would have great "depth".
Now imagine it isn't metal, but paint. Start with a matt finish (in your mind) and a little bit of gloss superimposed such that there's that limited gloss without losing all of the matt.
I had hoped that using gloss clear over a matt color would achieve that. According to lakeroadster, it doesn't. Gloss clear just wipes out the matt. So is there some other way?
DIGRESSION ALERT: Incidentally, I have part of an idea how to do it in a metal that can take a high polish (silver, copper, gold, not aluminum or titanium because of the oxide layers). The first part is getting the uniform brushed finish on one of those, which I don't have a good idea for, but maybe one can buy it that way. the brushed appearance depends on a jagged microstructure, so literally buffing it lightly might work, but I imagine it would be hard to get uniform. So I'd try a very brief electropolish to evenly smooth over just a little of the peaks of the microstructure. In my head, that works great. In reality?
