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Old 17 July 2008, 02:23 PM   #44 (permalink)
ulpilot
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Jim Bruton View Post
Vet,

As you can see from my recent postings on the DR-1 Sands site, I love my quadrant. Thanks so much for taking some of these detailed projects on and providing them to us for purchase. Here's a question for everyone- how do you paint the inscribed plate one color and the inscribed letters another? Seems like you would rub color into the letter area, and then use a very smooth and flat roller with a thinned paint to paint the plate. I wasn't able to figure this out and I know this is a really detailed question, but you never know who knows! I was even wodering about using 2 different solvent based paints whereby one would simply bead up on the other and be easily removeable.

Many thanks again,

Jim
Jim,

A little praise from one's peers sure does brighten the day! Thanks for the compliment. I thought you did a really nice job with the Zebrawood handles.

On painting the placards, have had limited success with spraying the engraving, then using unthinned paint on a printers (hard rubber) roller. It may be a problem with my technique, works sometimes and not others.

Vet
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