You can try sweet talking him with an ink on AL. He is working on new shop I believe so may too busy?
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Thanks, Inswva. What is an alcohol ink patina? (I can google it, but I'm interested to know if anyone's seen it done)
(BTW, I'm in NoVa. SWVA is beautiful country.)
PM @Mark Howard for details... that would be your best bet.
I'm a NoVa native. Grew up in Fairfax City. Left in the early 90's and never looked back.
I went to high school in the Tidewater area and a couple years after at James Madison; totally agree, beautiful country but I got out of there and never looked back either.
I'm all for the ink but the durability is going to be dependent upon the clear coat you put over the ink, tge ink won't stay without it. Again, nothing is going to be more durable than cerakote ceramic clear coat but you can't use it over ink bc the ink can't be baked.
If you want to get crazy weir set you cab gov with hydroprinting, look that up on instagram for sine cool pics, but again your limited to the quality of the clear, with hydroprinting you can clear cerakote over it and be as good as it gets with as much detail as you want. Problem with hydroprinting is your limited to the available patterns on film, you can get custom films made but it's pretty pricy and it takes a long time. Personally I like hydroprinting, w clear cerakote it's a winner, if you find a pattern you like.
If you want to get crazy weir set you cab gov with hydroprinting, look that up on instagram for sine cool pics, but again your limited to the quality of the clear, with hydroprinting you can clear cerakote over it and be as good as it gets with as much detail as you want. Problem with hydroprinting is your limited to the available patterns on film, you can get custom films made but it's pretty pricy and it takes a long time. Personally I like hydroprinting, w clear cerakote it's a winner, if you find a pattern you like.
So. Teflon rhino sprayed hydro cerakote dipped with 36 coats of cerakote clear while wearing a football helmet to use sounds like a protective way of using my mod
That's a great color! Bet it changes slightly in different light? Add a little metal flake and it would be killer!!Here's the midnight blue
Damn Tom! Just stop it!!You can scratch it , it's on aluminum but cerakote is a ceramic paint that is developed and approved for military use, you simply cannot get a more durable coating, in any color.
I can do multiple colors, I've done it but this is how it works: prep a paint dad bake the first color. Then you lay on a stencel, spray and bake for a second time, then you cover what you just painted with the reverse of the first stencel, and spray again. so to sum that up your talking about $50 for the first color, around $20 for the stencils $50 for the second color but I would charge at least $75 bc I have to use the stencil. So at this point in the process your talking one application of stencils and two colors it looks like this:
This is only half done.
See where I'm going with this...
You're trying your best to force me to get another Tmod
Damn Tom! Just stop it!!
Yeah, me too, I keep staring at his Signature, and pay the difference for another Cerakote job... anymore?
Glad you posted a pic of what the midnight blue looks like. Looks black to me. I'm thinking now I'll go for orange instead. Is it possible to have the body and the top different colors?
Just wanted to be sure... Don't want to hear of our hempy conkin out on us [emoji6] LOL You know how we mommas worry....
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I just got a new batch of orange, the last one was screwed up, I dunno how it comes out. Most colors don't have the same ammount of gloss so I don't usually do two colors but I'll see how the orange cones out when in shoot it and let you know.
Wonder how their cobalt looks. Bright orange and cobalt blue is like one of my favorite color combos of all time. lol.
Ok I see. Looking at the colors. So this is another application fr firearms as well. I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this. Their sky blue looks like cobalt I saw the Jesse James green you was talking about. Lol. Saw some pretty nice colors. Thank you T
Ok I see. Looking at the colors. So this is another application fr firearms as well. I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this. Their sky blue looks like cobalt I saw the Jesse James green you was talking about. Lol. Saw some pretty nice colors. Thank you T
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The Derringer works fabulous on the TMod. I have a brass one that matches my Brass TMod. Have it dialed it with 26g kanthal, duals at .49 ohms. It's a really nice vape and one of my go to's [emoji6]
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You can scratch it , it's on aluminum but cerakote is a ceramic paint that is developed and approved for military use, you simply cannot get a more durable coating, in any color.
I can do multiple colors, I've done it but this is how it works: prep a paint dad bake the first color. Then you lay on a stencel, spray and bake for a second time, then you cover what you just painted with the reverse of the first stencel, and spray again. so to sum that up your talking about $50 for the first color, around $20 for the stencils $50 for the second color but I would charge at least $75 bc I have to use the stencil. So at this point in the process your talking one application of stencils and two colors it looks like this:
This is only half done.
See where I'm going with this...
Yowsa! That looks sharp! [emoji4]
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Here's an up close of the first time I ever used Tiffany blue cerakote, this is my personal mod that I run a minimum of 10ml /day thru, throw on the ground in my pocket w keys / tools, and generally treat like crap.
You can see there are scratches in it but they don't go there the cerakote and expose the aluminum pretty much ever.
Looks awesome for the use that it gets! I'm am glad to see this. I can live with some scratches. I use my TMods alot and expect a few dings. I was worried about scratching through the finish which would have been an OCD thing for me. LOL Obviously normal scratching doesn't phase the cerakote. [emoji4]
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LB-a true patina can't be done on the aluminum. but he could do the alcohol ink. He does awesome work with the ink as well [emoji4]
Edit:looks like you have your answers. I agree with the rest, it would be hard to keep it from getting dinged up. I have an alcohol ink REO door and there are a couple of dings around the edges that have flaked. But it is purty!
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That's a great color! Bet it changes slightly in different light? Add a little metal flake and it would be killer!!
Ooo.... Metal flaking would be awesome! A sparkly TMod! [emoji4]
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