Tn-Steve
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I was going to do a Tortose Shell cigar today, so last night I roughed up the tubes, wiped them down with DNA, then gave them a spray of good old wal-mart brand black paint. Today they looked good, but I recalled a recommendation to tint the epoxy for blanks also. Since this blank was very translucent, I figured that if the paint scratched off going into the blank, this would cover me.
No problem, mixed up the epoxy like usual, and poured a little bit of "Testors" brand black paint into the mix. Epoxy set up just fine, good deep black color. Life is good! (?)
Soon as I started to polish up the blank I saw a problem. I was getting a bright Brass Line thru the center of the pen. It was like I had never painted the tube at all. I SUSPECT that the solvent in the testors enamel may have taken off the spray paint. I know that particular brand of spray is very susceptable to lifting, you have to recoat in 4 hours or wait 48 to keep it from bubbling up.
I'm probably not going to finish the pen out.... It doesn't meet my own standards, so I'll write this off as a learning experence.
Anybody else have anything like this occur?
Post Edit: I went ahead and turned off the blank, and yea, there wasn't a speck of black paint left on the tube. The tinted epoxy wasn't enough to make up for it. I'll experiment further and report back with what I find.
No problem, mixed up the epoxy like usual, and poured a little bit of "Testors" brand black paint into the mix. Epoxy set up just fine, good deep black color. Life is good! (?)
Soon as I started to polish up the blank I saw a problem. I was getting a bright Brass Line thru the center of the pen. It was like I had never painted the tube at all. I SUSPECT that the solvent in the testors enamel may have taken off the spray paint. I know that particular brand of spray is very susceptable to lifting, you have to recoat in 4 hours or wait 48 to keep it from bubbling up.
I'm probably not going to finish the pen out.... It doesn't meet my own standards, so I'll write this off as a learning experence.
Anybody else have anything like this occur?
Post Edit: I went ahead and turned off the blank, and yea, there wasn't a speck of black paint left on the tube. The tinted epoxy wasn't enough to make up for it. I'll experiment further and report back with what I find.
Steve
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