Jim C
Oldtimer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.