14-01-2013, 08:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-01-2013, 08:51 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Coach painting didnt come straight from the brush David, there was a lot of flatting, recoating, more flatting and then T Cut.
Outside I have a mix of varnished (Sickins) and white paint. The varnish is better (well it was new as well) for not showing brush marks as the grain masks it; its why we paint with the grain. I was brought up in the trade and was painting for pocket money from a young teenager. The white was inherited and there’s the rub (pun intended!).
But fortunately most of us view house painting with a broader view not the few inches against the light that we do with cars and radio cabinets. Never painted a car, although I used to do motorcycle parts (lots of flatting and T Cut), and have tried one loudspeaker cabinet.
This was with Brushing Cellulose Lacquer, from Restoration Supplies, applied with an expensive 2” varnish brush that was as soft as velvet. It dries fast, so that helps to beat the dust. Need to put it on in one pass after another and don’t go back for rework, which is so tempting. For a low shine cabinet, without very large plain flat areas, its good. But recoating and meticulous brush cleaning is against it. So I moved on to cellulose lacquer. Even with only aerosol bombs a superb finish can be achieved. I never found any aerosols that were as good as the US ones though but fortunately Mohawk can be bought over here.
Cheers Gary
Outside I have a mix of varnished (Sickins) and white paint. The varnish is better (well it was new as well) for not showing brush marks as the grain masks it; its why we paint with the grain. I was brought up in the trade and was painting for pocket money from a young teenager. The white was inherited and there’s the rub (pun intended!).
But fortunately most of us view house painting with a broader view not the few inches against the light that we do with cars and radio cabinets. Never painted a car, although I used to do motorcycle parts (lots of flatting and T Cut), and have tried one loudspeaker cabinet.
This was with Brushing Cellulose Lacquer, from Restoration Supplies, applied with an expensive 2” varnish brush that was as soft as velvet. It dries fast, so that helps to beat the dust. Need to put it on in one pass after another and don’t go back for rework, which is so tempting. For a low shine cabinet, without very large plain flat areas, its good. But recoating and meticulous brush cleaning is against it. So I moved on to cellulose lacquer. Even with only aerosol bombs a superb finish can be achieved. I never found any aerosols that were as good as the US ones though but fortunately Mohawk can be bought over here.
Cheers Gary
