Does anyone still do this? and what time period was it done? Spray your base, then take unreduced laquer paint and sprap it over the base, and then clear.
I have done quite a few webs. Mainly used on custom motorcycle paint jobs. Did my first one in 1967 on a custom VW bug. I learned how to do it by accident. Forgot to thin some laquer, and webs came out. Now I add black pigment to clear, since laquer is harder to come by. Lee
I used to do this ( we called it cob web) in the early 70's on custom bikes. I think it looks best on smaller areas. You can experiment with distances from what you are painting and air pressures at the gun. Some look choppy and some look stringy.......................MO
It would be from the 60's, I've tried it lately and it just dont work with modern paints. My dad used to use unreduced laquers.
If I remember correctly, only lacquer paint will do cob-webbing...unthinned and spray it at low pressure. Last one I did I used dark green lacquer and it came out well...haven't done it in several years tho so I don't know if any of the new paints will work the same. R-
Watson was doing it in the early '60s or later '50s as I recall. It really became main stream later '60s and earlier '70s. But Watson was doing it long before it became popular.
I had one of my bicycles done when i was a kid it was all black with white spider webs, Looked realy cool.
Yeah this young guy would love some pics. Asked my dad about it (he does body work and a paints) and he laughed at me. Why would you want to do that. He's Old
And another youngster here wants to know! I've nearly mastered lace, I'm decent with a pinstripe brush, and I can pull fineline tape and fade colors no problem. I'd really like to ad this to my "bag of tricks!"
Well I've done it before on a motor cycle gas tank and a hood for a car, my dad has a gallon of black lacquer paint and tons of pints of different colors, I usually use a gravity feed gun unreduced lacquer and spray it at a distance at a low pressure, I was asking to see some more experienced hambers might know a bit more then me, im thinking of doing my dash and firewall on my 55 Chevy.
Here's some more flavor in your ear... Now what do you say if somebody asks where you got this? That's right....you know nothin'!!
I always heard it called Cob Webbing. Watson started it and had a special gun i was told that would spin it as it came out. I also heard that he sold a special paint for just that process back in the day. I did get that effect one time with under thinned lacquer.....unfortunately I wasent looking for that effect at the time!!!!
Does any one remember a painting trick in about the same era. You would take an eye dropper of candy paint and put a large drop on a hood or MC gas tank that was painted with a base coat and hit it with a blow gun. It would kind of look like the deal at county fairs where you drop paint on a spinning piece of paper. I don't remember what we called it but it was on a lot of cars and bikes in the Minneapolis area in the late 60's.
Don't know if you can see it very clearly, but the fenders and exposed frame area on my sedan were painted candy gold with black cob-webbing. This would have been early 70's. Mick
I did them in the 70s they were known as freak eyes where I come from. I would just adjust the gun pattern to a circle thin the candy paint pinch the air hose make the spot and then unpinch the hose and give it a 40 lb blast of air. After putting about 200 on a van you got pretty darn good at it .... I also had a 69 camaro with candy bubbles in the ss stripes another trick you dont see anymore. I can still do all that old paint stuff fish scales etc. Im just waiting for the right project or a customer with cash to come along!!
Freak Drops. (pic is from the "Wild Paint" thread...i believe) There is another painting technique where you use water drops and it can sometimes give the "spin art" effect but mostly looks like that "motor oil on water" type effect without the rainbow-edness.
God lord. Cobwebbing and freak drops. I feel like I just stepped into the time machine and went back to that little dirt floor shop (1974) where I first started painting cars. Fast forward to 2011 and, well I'm still just sitting here, just another old disabled pecker wishing he could go out and work on his car. But I digress.
I used to spray webbing while building fiberglass boats,usually cockpits and interiors. For gelcoat we actually used to buy gallon cans marked as "webbing solution"to mix in the gelcoat.The farther away you shot from the larger the pattern(?) in the string would be. I wonder if the webbing solution is compatible with paints or for that matter if it is still made. It's been a good twenty years since I was doing that....
I will have to get some better close ups of my fenders. This was years ago before we started work. There are about 7 paint styles on the cab and fenders alone. The cob webbing on the fenders are about the only thing that survived well from the early 70's.
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