Virtually any lace will do. Just be sure to get it tight to the bodymetal and spray at low pressures. You dont want the paint to sneak under the lace.
Not quite following you here. How do you figure buying stuff that was made 20-30 years ago is keeping jobs in his country? Am I missing something? Or are you saying hes keeping the lady at the thrift store employed? If he buys the same **** at Wal-mart, hes keeping the cashier AND the greeter employed. I agree, this **** on every post is really getting old, especially when it doesnt make any sense.
Yep, coupla light mist coats will do. I have HEARD to mist the lace with water to get it to stick to the car better, but I did not do this. I didn't like the idea of the water on there. Mask your panel, tape the lace down, and go for it. I thought the hardest part was getting the tape to stick to the lace, I had to use duct tape, and even then it barely worked. As for economics and the self interest of the consumer and retail stores...I now earn about 1/3 of what I used to...I now HAVE to shop at Walmart, and I have no false illusion that doing otherwise would bring back my income. FalconG, thanks for the kind words about my car (period valve covers are on now).
I have heard about misting the lace with water too. thought it was a little spooky, has anyone done this on here?
Wow I never heard of misting the lace! I guess I could give it a try on a test panel first... Don't worry Mikeey rat, didn't take offense. I have the similar "mm I wanna go old school and traditional" way with lace and get something real - as real as my American black leather jacket from the '60s I wear everyday in college life. But whatever's cheapest will do with cool designs. I will start browsing
Wow, that is simply beautiful. A lot like Kirk's 60 Ford ya know? Very cool. I also like the design! Isn't the vintage stuff really expensive though?
I just went to a fabric store with my wife (so as to preserve my masculinity ) They had lots of stuff there. Took a while to dig through the pile, but found the winner. It's like any other painting project. If you take the time to do good prep, the results will be good.
I'd like to have a chick in lace ******* sit on wet paint and see what kinda effect I can get, I bet it would rock.
Ya just peel it off....if ya use intercoat, you can remove 15 minutes after final "lace" coat... Here's how I did my wife's Impala.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=285901
Oh okay! Thank you! This thread is very helpful. I may do a sort of "Base coat - clear coat" thing, do everything in flat paint at first, then load clear coat, sand with 1500 grit, paint, sand, paint, etc.
We did this technique 'back-in-the-day'. Actually fairly easy if you take your time. We wet the lace before we applied it and it did help some. Another thing to consider is to lightly mist the side of the lace that will contact your roof (deck lid, hood, .... whatever) with clear just before you apply it. Clearcoat from a rattle can will work. That helps it 'stick down' a little better.
A friend of mine has an o/t '67 Fairlane that we are dressing up to look like an early '70s SS/C car, I am also gathering parts to build a late sixties style rod, would like to work some lace panels and endless line stripes into that, but that is a long ways off.
When we did my Edsel, none of us had done lace paint before, but we read all we could on the subject, and it was really easy. We did a silver base, and cleared it with a bunch of flake in it. sanded it down, and laid out some panels. Strech the lace out carefully, didn't use anything to help it stick. the lace should be fairly tight. The we misted kandy over the lace from about 12" or so. Pulled the lace right away, and a bunch more kandy.
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