some new non automotive project pics

Jim C

Jim C

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every once in awhile I post up one of these threads just to show something different than the usual car or resto projects that people are working on. anyway I have been doing a lot more architectural work, marine and just odd ball stuff lately. actually it has gotten to the point where I'm doing more of that then bikes. this winter I had a massive amount of work for a new seafood restaurant being built here on one of the shore islands. I did tons of wood finish and had to come up with a way to make 6700 feet of 1x8 look like old distress/reclaimed clam shack wood. it was a very interesting job but so repetitive I wanted to shoot somebody after day2. once that was all done there was an endless amount of metal items I needed to make match that finish. you can see in the one pic of the metal breaker panel door. that is spi epoxy, white wanda basecoat and spi matte clear. hard to see but there is a bunch of cracking in the finish. I pretty sure this is the first time someone intentionally shot the epoxy and base in a way to purposely achieve that lol. in the pic you can see the panel sitting on the wood that was finished.


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​here is the wood for the ceiling I did a match for on these speakers. the beige was actually spi epoxy that I tinted to be that color. keeps me from also having to shoot base and I needed something that would lock up so I could work on it. spi matte clear on that one after all the artwork was done.

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​here is a boat that belongs to a customer of mine. instead of a real teak toe rail he wanted it painted on. avoids all the maintenance of real wood. apparently painting teak is getting popular. for this the base color is spi sealer tinted to a color similar to cardboard. same deal, I need to be able to work on the base color so it needs to be something catalyzed so it wont move when I put solvents on it.
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Thanks for posting Jim. Pretty convincing job on the faux 45degree joint in the faux wood. It is nice doing something different once in a while, was spraying lenmar stain & pre-cat lacquer myself today at work.
​Did some distressing at work on a few doors several years back, it does get on your nerves after a while. Beating on something in a very specific manner takes the fun out of beating on it in the first place.:confused:
PS forget if I mentioned a while back, made a couple of rotisserie sets to screw to each end of a door panel to work on both sides at the same time, pretty useful for some jobs.
 
Nice job Jim!!!
We sell to two shops that restore old Chris Crafts and two manufacturers of cigarette type boats, out of my league but always interesting to see the work.
 
Very nice wood work. Having been into boating for many years here on Long Island up until I finally sold my boat recently, I've admired boats that had real wood work outside the typical oiled teal. I've seen some beautifully restored all wooden boats on the water in my time and admired them just as much as I do to old stock classic cars.
 
Good Lord Jim, I've worked with wood quite a bit and have stained and cleared my fair share and never did my work look like what you painted. Wow that is beautiful work, if he ain't happy with that boat I'll come down and smack him.

All I can see is the boat by the way the others are not showing for some reason but I'm sure just as nice.
 
thanks everyone.

odd that the first two pics disappeared. they were there. anyway i uploaded them again. you should see them now.

actually he is extremely happy with the boat. i did that here at a yacht company and everyone there couldnt believe it. had the owner of the place come down to see it. he is talking about having me do a bunch of other things he has around there. the boat owner might have me do the transom now and gold leaf the name. i think it helps that i have worked with wood my whole life and come from a woodworking family. doing alot of wood finish helps too. if your gonna do that kind of thing on a few mil dollar boat i guess it really needs to be believable. i really do like doing it. if i could do that everyday i would

JL, a rotisserie for the doors is actually a great idea. i can fit about 5 doors at once into the booth laying flat on horses and me not being to cramped in there but i can only do one side at a time. being able to flip them would be a real time saver. i used to use lenmar but my automotive jobber now has valspar and while they are all pretty close i do like the valspar system better. atleast for conversion varnish. i refuse to use any kind of lacquer. i guess its ok for some things but it just doesnt have the durability that conversion varnish does.
 
here are a couple other things. i thought this one was funny and im pretty sure this is the first time spi will get pissed on in a regular basis lol. the were smooth white metal panels. all the hardware is an oil rubbed bronze finish that i made up with some pearls and a little flattener mixed into black spi epoxy.


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here is another. no spi on this but since JL does wood finish i figured i would post. this is one of the larger walls. 18ft high. this was all brand new pine when i started. every board done one by one. 6700 linear feet total. to date this is the biggest job i ever did. 30 gallons of material. i sprayed non stop for 12 days straight, 12hrs a day. all done with conversion varnish. hvac are metal and painted to match. those are spi.

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Jim C said:
here are a couple other things. i thought this one was funny and im pretty sure this is the first time spi will get pissed on in a regular basis lol. the were smooth white metal panels. all the hardware is an oil rubbed bronze finish that i made up with some pearls and a little flattener mixed into black spi epoxy.





here is another. no spi on this but since JL does wood finish i figured i would post. this is one of the larger walls. 18ft high. this was all brand new pine when i started. every board done one by one. 6700 linear feet total. to date this is the biggest job i ever did. 30 gallons of material. i sprayed non stop for 12 days straight, 12hrs a day. all done with conversion varnish. hvac are metal and painted to match. those are spi.

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Does 30 gallons of material include the amount of beer it took to regain your sanity?

Pretty cool work dude.
 
so after i finished the toe rail on that boat the owner wanted me to do the transom and lettering. once i got half way through that he also added the armstrong bracket that holds the engines. snowball effect i guess. anyway i figured i would just add to this thread. the bracket and the whole transom are all 100% faux teak. all hand painted. the gold is real gold leaf.



​note to barry...not sure why that guy you called me had problems with the leaf. i put intercoat over it and had no issues whatsoever. maybe he was just hammering it on super wet with a slow reducer or something.






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Wow, Jim. I've done my fair share of woodwork too and that looks amazing!
 
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