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glass smooth paint finish on wood
Ond:
It’s possible, I've provided the 'how' a number of times. Truth is it doesn't matter what you want to get that glass finish on so long as you have a surface preparation strategy that works. There's a part on my cab that started out as particle board or chip board as it’s called. It was ridiculous to start with, all porous and rough as hell. It needed to look the same as the rest of the rest of the cab i.e. piano finish, so strategy applied and, voila! (you'd never know it was chip board). I used the particle board because that’s what I had at hand.
So,go for the finishers’ holy grail! I'll help you, but then I've heard you don't read my posts? :P
Seriously, happy to help.
jennifer:
A high build primer, If its wash boarded, If not A epoxy based primer will sand, Re coat...This will eliminate bullseye where you sanded through,
Then you can paint the wood grain...If your not doing the wood grain too, just the art it"s the paint,sand,paint method, An airbrush is an awesome
gun for the small... On the last coat of clear, (after sanding with say 1000 grit) Add a splash of acetone to the clear, this will make it "wetter"
and thin it good...If all goes good and you get no dirt in it, Buffing wont be necessary... Use quality materials, and there is no substitute for
hard work.
SavannahLion:
OND, I don't read your posts because A) I'm not at all convinced you're actually OND but my father's doppleganger and I don't want my own father to give me the old "I told you so" lecture because I didn't listen to anything he said as a teen and I missed out on a walking library of craftsman knowledge.before his death. And B) everytime I look at anything you do, I get so depressed that I crawl into the corner closet, suck my thumb, curl up into a fetal ball, cry myself to sleep for about four days, ashamed at my inept half-assed project. Then I toss the project components onto the trash pile, try to drown myself in the tortoise cage and spend my nights browsing porn sites and playing those stupid pet websites. About a week before the yearly trash people come by I drag the reeking, rat infestation, piles of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- back into the garage, strip the ruined parts off and try to move forward in between my intense shower sessions and my therapy sessions with the dog. Around this time, I've slept so little that reality and dream become a blurred mess and events become indistinguishable from one or the other. Once my turtle convinces me you don't exist and that you're not my father reincarnate is when I finally open up my Sketchup and AVR ASM files, review what I've failed at and try to improve the failed designs.
It's usually another six months before I can buy new parts and shape the wood unless you make a new appearance and start the cycle all over again.
Ahem..... Enough madness and shame, the common thread I see are the layers and layers, something that doesn't happen with scale modeling. Too much paint and you lose the detail. I'll find OND's paint thread and I'll be back in about a nine months.
jennifer:
Giggle...Jennifer claps her hands with glee!!
Ond:
Oh my GAWWWWD :laugh2:
How the heck do I respond after all that? ;D Well (heh heh) since you don't (usually) read my stuff I have another cunning plan, these lengthy descriptions are all well and good but can make it seem like too much hard work to get the desired finish.
I should point out that IMO piano gloss finishes and arcade machines don't really go together unless they are some odd unconventional 'art piece' like my effort. Really slick satin finishes with vinyl print artwork seem much more authentic to me.
That aside, I understand how satisfying it can be to master the whole mega gloss look on our chosen cab materials SO, there may be some usefulness in me doing a "how to video" on what works for me. Nothing beats seeing the process and hearing it described I guess. Believe it or not I enjoy the finishing process all the way to a high gloss polish. Jennifer is right on the money with her summary of the process, probably what’s needed though is some detail around techniques.
I have this part of my cab which is still raw plywood; it's around the neck of my cab. I'll take it from wood to Ferrari Red mirror finish; it's about time for an update anyhow. So, forgot all the yardiblarhhgg about the OND and check for the video, coming to a massively over bloated thread in the near future! ;D
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