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Rattle Can Refinish Club

#21
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It just takes a little patience,sanding and buffing. The results will blow you away! Being able to tell people you did it yourself is a great feeling.
 
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I've painted a LOT of things with rattle can paint jobs. Which includes 4 sets of rims, and MANY other things. I went to school for Industrial Design and we were constantly working on projects that required endless hours of prepping, sanding, painting, and clear coating. Some ppl are shocked at what you can do with a can of spray paint when it's prepped right, and done with patience.

I'm planning on refinishing a bass in the near future with some custom layered graphics. I bought a nice 24" vinyl plotter a while back to get into disc golf dyes, and eventually picked up some vinyl graphic work on the side, along with a small shirt press to be able to cut and apply my own stuff to shirts.
Anyways, it works awesome when you want to spray on a custom graphic. It basically gives you a template, you spray, and then you remove. I think I might work a nice Slayer Eagle on one of my basses that's a little beat up where I don't really care about the paint job on em.
Anyways. Keep posting! I wanna see more!
 
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#40
For you guys that have mastered the mighty rattle can, I have not been able to get a decent high gloss finish using standard hardware store paint regardless of the prep and/or wet sanding with 1,000+ grit or rubbing / polishing compound.

* Do you wet sand the top color coat and only worry about gloss in the clear coat stage?
* Has anyone tried any of the 2 part polyurethane clear coats? There was a brand (name escapes me) that you pushed a button on the bottom of the can to activate the hardener. You had approx 8 hours before the can wouldn't shoot. I saw some motorcycle gas tanks that were painted with Krylon paint but looked very pro with this type of clear. I gather the clear had to be applied lightly at first but top coat had to go on very wet.
* Or, is the trick just to use Reranch nitro lacquer and "fix" the clear coat with wet sand and compound like a 60's car paint job?
 
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