Anyone remember the cobwebbing on custom paint? If you were to try to duplicate that today, what kind of paint would work? I believe it used to be done with unthinned laquer which is not available any longer. Trying to touch up a 50 year old custom paint job on an old Corvette.
Yeah, lacquer is what you need...modern paints won't work. At least none I've tried. What color do you need and how much? I still have some misc lacquer leftovers.
I've experimented with trying to get a cobweb effect with modern paints. Not so easy! I finally came up with something that's close, but not perfect. Using basecoat paint, in a siphon gun (gravity won't work at all), not reduced, and low pressure. I Tee'd into the air line right before the gun, put a small regulator there, and fed it into the top of the siphon (I used one with a threaded hole for the air inlet) Playing around with the pressure going into the gun's reservoir, I could get an approximation of the old cobwebbing. I didn't attempt to refine the effect, as I was just painting the pool table. But you might get a better webbing if you play around with it.
You can still get acrylic lacquer from TCP Global if you're not in California. https://tcpglobal.com/pages/search-results-page?q=lacquer&page=4
I know I have done it on accident when I was trying for the granite look with newer base coats, but not sure I have ever tried to do it on purpose. My method for ending up with it on accident was basically similar to chopolds, but I could have sworn I was using a gravity fed gun. I do like the look on the right paint job. Good information to have. Curious what others say.
K13's right get the acrylic lacquer fron TCP GLOBAL. Get your self a #7 binks old ass gun, then don't thin the paint the thicker the better.the lower the air the longer the strands. I loved cobwebbing .if the paint is too thin let it set with the lid off. Go off an on with the trigger. Get the air, paint, n distance right you'll match it. Have fun. Ps thanks for the memories.
With the siphon gun and the un-thinned lacquer turn the air pressure down. Your distance from the panel is 12” or more. You move pretty slow. After drying cover with your clear of choice.
Starting with the base coat spray on with slow drying reducer then go with un-thin lacquer out of a Binks gun with the standard production nozzle. It will come out all stringy, to be covered with clear lacquer with a slow drying thinner. Oh yea, don't forget to pick a base color that will offset the cob-webs.
You can also get small cans of Lacquer from guitar restoration supply companies. I put cob webbing on my 56 Merc 2 door hardtop back in the 70's It was inside the trim that went under the side windows on a Montclair. Car was black and I cob webbed it with gold metallic. Lacquer straight out of the gun with no thinning. Took a while to dry but it was fine once dry. Torchie
Most guitar restoration places like Stewart Mac seem to be selling ready to spray pre thinned stuff these days.
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