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painting my cabinet...few questions
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fatfingers:

--- Quote from: KapnKerfuffle on May 27, 2009, 12:56:37 am ---Yes, use a primer.  And have the store tint the primer with your finish color.  Even if it is black.

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I have never understood the need to tint primer.  You're going to cover it up.  With probably three coats of paint.  It's not going to show through, especially if you're going to use a quality paint (which you should be doing).  In any case, it's not a big deal either way, but I just thought I'd mention that you don't have to tint the primer if you don't want.

bkenobi:
That's true, tinting the primer is not required.  However, if you are using a white/light primer and you have a dark cabinet/painting project it will take more coats of paint to finish.  If you have a white primer and are using a light colored paint, then it will NEVER match the paint chip since the primer will bleed through.

My wife used a white primer in one room of our house and then painted it light blue.  After 4 coats, the paint is still not the same color as the chip because the primer was white.  Had we tinted the primer to be light blue (even a different shade), we could have finished with 1 or 2 coats of paint.  Oh, and the primer and paint were both good quality, so it's not the paint that was used, it's the non-tinted primer...
fatfingers:
My highly technical and thought out reply is ...


bah


[And now back to the regular scheduled programming]

garnerb350:
I agree with Jav & fat....

Patience, patience, patience is key....

Also 3 coats over one color primer or not...I've never understood.

I bought a brand of paint from Lowes...Valspar Duramax...the guy there told me that it was self priming...I did 2 coats, sand, coat, sand, coat...Im satified with that....

Are you still wanting to go with the "zak-man" scheme or try something totally different?
severdhed:
heh...fixed the image link...i was in a hurry last night....

i want to keep the zakman marquee, that's why i was leaning towards blue and yellow.  i wasnt sure about the light colored primer...i just assumed that if i wanted to pain the cabinet blue or something, if i just painted blue over the black, it would be too dark.
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