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MaStuart
Hi! I am new to the forum, I made an introduction and was directed to this forum to find out information for my son. He is refinishing several sets of marching drums. They are maple shells and all are sanded down to bare wood. He would like to put a metal flake finish on them. I used to do old school metal flake paint on cars and motorcycles using lacquer. I am not sure what materials we are going to use to finish these with, any suggestions on this would be welcome too. For right now we would just like to get them ready to put a base coat on to get started with the metal flake. We would like suggestions on how to prep these to get them ready to be painted. My thought was to spray the shells with the proper number of coats of epoxy, doing any minor body work with filler and respraying over the filler. Then putting the proper primer surfacer on it, sand them in and start doing the metal flake. Does this sound like a good way to do this or should be looking at something different? I am open to suggestions and Thank You. Mark