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Looking great.
Here's to wishing you much progress this weekend.

Thanks.

Well. I may have spoke too soon. The first signs of uh oh are showing up. The exposed MDF edges are resisting taking paint evenly. This is the first cover coat after a quick initial dust coating and they are still not sealing and flowing like the other areas. I'm going to give it the night with the garage heaters going to see if I can get some better coverage tomorrow..... Not encouraging. Hmmm. MDF is no fun. It looks worse in the photo than it is, but how it looks is how I feel about it. lol. Like shit.


I am using tremclad high gloss fyi.

Officially sponsored by 3M bondo. Lol. Back on track soon. More sanding too!

primer is your freind, and at least 75 deg in the shop

Me and primer can't hang out anymore. My wife says he stinks and leaves a mess when he's over.

The primer I used stunk the house up for a week and gave her headaches. Good stuff!!

Next project: Build trevor a new shop.:)

Sounds like a plan! Got the garage up to 25. Cooking now. Cure Cure Cure.

This weekend was not as great as I hoped, but pretty darn good. Right now I'm trying to decide if I need to sand and recoat again or if I can go right to sealer and clear coat. After the bondo dried it didn't take more than an hour or so of careful hand sanding with 220 to get them ready for another coat. I think this round I will do 400 and recoat without a double coat. (I snuck a quick second cheater coat in each time as the 1hr recoat window would allow.) It never seems to lay as clean when you sneak another in before the flash. I should probably coat again anyhow so there is more material to work towards 1000 grit. BTW, 2 cans does all 3 a single spray with the cigar boxes. Pretty not too bad (an Islander saying.)

I have abandoned the epoxy route. Gasp! There was an issue getting the system three from plastic world (-they are great to deal with and communicated right away there was stock problems) and wood essence is a little pricey. It looks like things happen for a reason anyhow. Yesterday my wife thoroughly cleaned up the listening room and now it's no longer a speaker clean room workspace. lol. I lost the epoxy route from all angles. "What, the listening room isn't a work site?!"

This will likely be the last project in the garage in it's current state. We are going to give it a makeover this summer. I spend a lot of time in there so it really should be a little more workshop oriented. A mud room style air lock to change shoes and hang coats will be a great way to cut down on dust going into the house too. Gears turning.....

Road rashed up ready for round two

Dark Sentinels freshly 2nd coated

The ghost in the machine

Always wait and give the paint plenty of time to flash off, trapped solvents will come back to haunt you especially if the speakers are in the sun and the temp comes up and releases the solvents. BTW the weekend is only half over so get busy already.

No easter monday for me.

I'll have to pick away at sanding them through the week so they can be recoated and ready for sealing and clear coat next weekend. I REALLY wanted to peel the masking off to see how they look. Gotta wait. . Its funny how the gloss really highlights all the things that drive you nuts. Luckily at this point things can still be sanded out.

i peel masking off after every coat while its still wet so it doesnt flake as it comes off. What are you going to clear coat with. Also solvents in paint make the tape extra gooey and it gets hard to take off if left too long. IMHO