Yeah, but that you know there's a difference puts you light years ahead of most folks. I helped my dad shoot a Truck with silver metallic in our shop once, and painted another truck white. The non-metallic wasn't bad, the metallic was a pain in the ass. It would sag if you just thought about it wrong.
Indeed, it does look fine until you examine it closely. It's almost to the point where I can play it for an hour or so and not think "hmm, this is still a little sticky." When I can do that, I'll disassemble it, and sand/polish it one last time...hopefully.
Nice. I've shot minimally with a gun, but done a lot more with spray cans. Guns are more effort in their own way, but I found it much easier to coat evenly with the nozzle my dad equipped me with*. The Glitter Blast goes on kind of like a powder finish, far different from the surface I remember being left by the super fine metallic automotive paint we used. Without the clearcoat on the Glitter Blast, you'd end up with glitter all over yourself. The auto paint was smooth-ish, even without any clearcoat. I may experiment with layers of clear sealer next time, to try to give the Glitter Blast that sense of depth that you see on boats. I've never shot that kind of heavy glitter on anything besides this bass, but I had a car when I was a kid that was painted in that bass boat heavy glitter. I always imagined it was layers of transparent embedded with large metalflake followed by clear which was sanded a bit after to maintain some semblance to a good surface, then repeat. I hope I can get a similar effect that way through light coats. I don't know, the coats were pretty opaque, but I want to try.
Hehehe, I like to think of myself as being focused...on everything.
Apparently I will have my very first "gig" in october. It's not a true, proper gig. It will be my drummer's birthday and he decided he wants to inflict the few songs we have ready to his fortunate guests
There will be probably something like 40 people, maybe 50, which is probably the largest "audience"(or shall I call them "hostages"?) we will ever haveI don't feel ready at all, not sure why I agreed with this thing. At least the context will be totally laid-back and carefree so no performance anxiety. No one of those people even cares about our songs or has any idea of the type of stuff we like or do. Totally fantastic premise
Hey, the only rule you have to remember is: don't stop, no matter how much of a trainwreck it is. Play it to the end, and if it's off the rails, keep trying to get it back on. They don't know your songs, and for all they know that measure was supposed to be weird.
And always remember that the first time PJ Harvey's trio performed, they cleared out almost all 50 people by the time they were in the middle of the first song, at which point someone told the drummer to stop playing, they'd get paid the same, just please stop. Those folks had a decent few records, and she's had a quite nice career, but that wasn't a great debut.
If/when I'm getting one of the latter, I'll surely do a vid of it eventually! I've got a backlog of oddballs to do and another on the way. I've got to kick it in gear on those.
But! I just got a set of electronic drums. I've had an acoustic set for almost two decades, but the room it was in was a mess, with an organ and assorted amps and cabs in front of it, and you kind of have to be alone to practice them without being irritating, especially when you suck. So, I didn't practice at all and I continued to suck. I cleaned up that room recently, and started practicing. Unfortunately, this terrified the cat, who would live under the couch for a day after I practiced, and be COMPLETELY ON EDGE for days after. I think he was convinced that the house was falling down. He doesn't like a loud amp, but he'd forget about that in about an hour or so. This was a completely different level of terror.
So, I mentioned an electronic drum set to my darlin' (who also never practices, but will always be a better drummer than I am). She loves the cat, and loves me (who now has a long scar on his left palm/pinky from trying to comfort the cat after practicing.) So, she found that the Simmons SD600 was on sale at GC, sent me to go get them, and both of us have played more this weekend than we have in years. I'll need to move a mixer back into that room so we can play together more often without making the cat hate life. So, that kind of activity may eat up time that would be devoted to making vids otherwise. Ehh, I'll try to shoot the footage and record the tracks for two pedals tomorrow. I have the day off, and can practice drums almost anytime now.
The cat is still not a fan. He used to sleep on the drum throne when that room was a mess, but won't go into that room after I cleaned it up, even after the acoustic drums were stacked in the corner. He knows what goes on in there.
*Yeah weird sentence in the middle of a long post.
