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Syscrush
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Howdy all - welcome to my first post!
OK, the pics aren't great, but that's largely because the paint job isn't great so really good pics would just highlight all the flaws.
But here's my first flame-job ever. I want to get into doing flames, my hobby is customizing motorcycles. But I thought I'd start the learning curve on something that isn't as important as a bike - the furniture I'm building for my place. Here's the almost-completed bar table:
I still intend to do my bar (same height, 8' wide) to match, and maybe the fridge too. While I'm at it, I just might do my 32 gallon compressor tank as well. More pics over the next month or so if people are interested.
As for materials used... Behr & Rustoleum interior high-gloss latex paint shot through a cheap-ass Chinese touch-up gun that came with the compressor & toolkit I picked up at Home Depot. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bigokay.gif The pinstriping (which still needs a few touch-ups) was done with a silver metallic paint marker from Staples. The pinstriping is a very good match for the raw aluminum that's used as edging around the tabletop. Oh, and you can't see it in these pics, but the black around the face of the tabletop is actually a fake carbon-fiber vinyl adhesive.
My advice to anyone wanting to do something similar using latex paints is to thin it quite a bit with water, take your time, and keep wiping down the nozzle of your gun because the paint will dry over the outlet as you're spraying. If you're not careful with the settings on the gun, it'll actually dry in the air before it hits the material!
The other advice would be to use the gun for the primer too so you have a smooth surface without the texturing you get from even a short-nap roller. That texturing makes the masking process trickier.
And on the subject of masking, I used the green 1/4" painter's tape, and I found that on the lightly textured surface, once it got hit with a bit of the water-thinned paint, it tended to lift in a lot of places. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek_yello.gif This made for lots of touch-up work. I think that 3/8" standard masking tape would work better in this application, but would obviously be harder to apply.
Well, that's it for now.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yay.gif
Take it easy,
Phil.
OK, the pics aren't great, but that's largely because the paint job isn't great so really good pics would just highlight all the flaws.
But here's my first flame-job ever. I want to get into doing flames, my hobby is customizing motorcycles. But I thought I'd start the learning curve on something that isn't as important as a bike - the furniture I'm building for my place. Here's the almost-completed bar table:
I still intend to do my bar (same height, 8' wide) to match, and maybe the fridge too. While I'm at it, I just might do my 32 gallon compressor tank as well. More pics over the next month or so if people are interested.
As for materials used... Behr & Rustoleum interior high-gloss latex paint shot through a cheap-ass Chinese touch-up gun that came with the compressor & toolkit I picked up at Home Depot. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bigokay.gif The pinstriping (which still needs a few touch-ups) was done with a silver metallic paint marker from Staples. The pinstriping is a very good match for the raw aluminum that's used as edging around the tabletop. Oh, and you can't see it in these pics, but the black around the face of the tabletop is actually a fake carbon-fiber vinyl adhesive.
My advice to anyone wanting to do something similar using latex paints is to thin it quite a bit with water, take your time, and keep wiping down the nozzle of your gun because the paint will dry over the outlet as you're spraying. If you're not careful with the settings on the gun, it'll actually dry in the air before it hits the material!
The other advice would be to use the gun for the primer too so you have a smooth surface without the texturing you get from even a short-nap roller. That texturing makes the masking process trickier.
And on the subject of masking, I used the green 1/4" painter's tape, and I found that on the lightly textured surface, once it got hit with a bit of the water-thinned paint, it tended to lift in a lot of places. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek_yello.gif This made for lots of touch-up work. I think that 3/8" standard masking tape would work better in this application, but would obviously be harder to apply.
Well, that's it for now.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yay.gif
Take it easy,
Phil.