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Rattle Can Refinish Club

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bound'n'blocked said:
I have tried the Glitterblast before, but went through three cans and none sprayed. I have had good results with the Testors Glitter paints in the smaller cans you use on model cars and such. Great coverage and goes on pretty glossy on its own. I do like some of the colors that Glitterblast offers though. That purple is especially nice.

Im thinking about trying a project with the Roth stuff soon though.

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The issue with any can of glitter paint is the balance between flake size, pressure and nozzle opening. It helps to shake between each spray clear the nozzle over and over again so agglomeration doesn't occur. GB has one of the largest flake sizes. I've painted with the purple and had great success. Sorry to hear you had issues. How is the flake size on the Testors?
 
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This was a test I did on my paint pig body. The flake is definitely not "bass boat flake" but it looks really good, especially the more you apply.

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deff said:
I was like the lone negative reviewer on Amazon for that product for a while. I got a few hateful comments. I talked about it elsewhere and and despite following the instructions implicitly and having background in the use of two part urethanes and the analysis of them I was criticized for saying anything negative about it. I even bought a different can from another source and had the same issue. I think for the most part it is likely that there was an issue with formulation for a brief period of time. Others have had a lot of success using it. It was summer and I painted in a tented area outside. The humidity was checked to make sure it was low enough, but even so that might have had a deleterious effect on the cure rate. The problem was three weeks went by and the stuff was still soft, very soft. Movable with your finger soft. The ratio of A/B block was likely off and whatever catalyst they used was not promoting polymerization sufficiently. Needless to say I was pissed. Roth has some great stuff though. It is worth the cash if you want to get a great flake and don't have a gun and compressor.

If you want to do flake on the cheap I highly recommend Krylon Glitter Blast with a Fusion overcoat. Fusion is a great workable 1 part clearcoat. Sands easy and goes on nice with a very durable finish. Also builds really well on successive coats.
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I have used the Glitter Blast also - works well. I mostly 'dust' it over a base coat. I've used Fusion colours as a base-coat but have never tried the clear-coat. Will eventually check it out.
 
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Here's my father-in-law's '77 P that got trapped under 4 feet of water for a couple days during Hurricane Harvey. I originally let the finish resettle and left it on, but then he gifted it to me and so I got to work refinishing it. Stripped it down, sanded some burs and gouges left from the flood and a lifetime of playing, and sprayed it with Sherwood green from Gracey's vintage. Nitro clear coat on that and then a polish. When I stripped it, I found that it had some very nice Ash grain, so I didn't fill it. The grain shows through the thin nitro and I love the way it looks.

63 reissue pickup
Fender Cloth wire harness
Allparts knobs
Fender standard 5-hole bridge (I couldn't get the rust out of the intonation screws.
Original body, neck, pickguard, covers, and tuners.

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deff said:
I was like the lone negative reviewer on Amazon for that product for a while. I got a few hateful comments. I talked about it elsewhere and and despite following the instructions implicitly and having background in the use of two part urethanes and the analysis of them I was criticized for saying anything negative about it. I even bought a different can from another source and had the same issue. I think for the most part it is likely that there was an issue with formulation for a brief period of time. Others have had a lot of success using it. It was summer and I painted in a tented area outside. The humidity was checked to make sure it was low enough, but even so that might have had a deleterious effect on the cure rate. The problem was three weeks went by and the stuff was still soft, very soft. Movable with your finger soft. The ratio of A/B block was likely off and whatever catalyst they used was not promoting polymerization sufficiently. Needless to say I was pissed. Roth has some great stuff though. It is worth the cash if you want to get a great flake and don't have a gun and compressor.

If you want to do flake on the cheap I highly recommend Krylon Glitter Blast with a Fusion overcoat. Fusion is a great workable 1 part clearcoat. Sands easy and goes on nice with a very durable finish. Also builds really well on successive coats.
View attachment 3776442 This is Glitter Blast with Fusion.
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What would you recommend using as a primer for Krylon Glitter Blast? I read a comment from Krylon that Fusion is never recommended as a base coat. I have experience with their Shimmer line, and its color coverage is quite good. Does Glitter Blast also, in your experience, have good color coverage, or is a similar color base coat a good idea? I've been researching this, and haven't really found much useable info.
 
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Dean N said:
What would you recommend using as a primer for Krylon Glitter Blast? I read a comment from Krylon that Fusion is never recommended as a base coat. I have experience with their Shimmer line, and its color coverage is quite good. Does Glitter Blast also, in your experience, have good color coverage, or is a similar color base coat a good idea? I've been researching this, and haven't really found much useable info.
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Some other Krylon Acrylic. I would think that most of them should be compatible. They make a specific primer. It might only come in white though. That's not terrible, depending on your base. You could use a similar color for a base or black depending on what you are trying to achieve.

I found that it had good coverage. I didn't use a base color on my Gold V. I just used an acrylic sanding sealer and sprayed GB over the top of that. Krylon also now has a top coat for their Glitter Blast product. I'm not sure what the difference is between that and Fusion. It could be a higher viscosity for better overall coverage.

Using Fusion as a base coat seem like a bad idea. It is likely mostly a urethane based coating and won't work if you throw an acrylic which is most colors over the top of it, unless you want to get that BC Rich crackled finish look.
 
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Instagator said:
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ReRanch Crown Royal Purple.
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I really like their purple and have done a few nitro guitars with ReRanch stuff. I love the Iceman style. I did a similar color on an SG using Specialty color matched Plum Crazy (Mopar Color) from Tower Paint from Detroit. The clear coat on this was Reranch. I wanted it to age like Nitro so I used that. I've always had good luck with their stuff and learned so much from their website and the people that visited it.
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