Unique paintjob, or not?
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vincenth
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How does this work, would the paint get slightly burned?
No. The torch is only lit and the flame just wafts over it. You can do the same with a tallow candle. I remember reading an article about it in the late 80s when these jobs started to appear more often. Its essentially soot clear coated on as far as i can tell!
Im not entirely sure if that was how it was done at diamond back, but its certainly how the old timers did that effect.
I assume you just run too much acetylene with little to no oxy. If you shut down a torch you can fill the workshop with floating black strings of soot if you try hard enough......
I assume you just run too much acetylene with little to no oxy. If you shut down a torch you can fill the workshop with floating black strings of soot if you try hard enough......
Thame Game
Retro Guru
Arthur Barnstonworth used to do it with a lit woodbine and a handful of saltpeter.Im not entirely sure if that was how it was done at diamond back, but its certainly how the old timers did that effect.
I assume you just run too much acetylene with little to no oxy. If you shut down a torch you can fill the workshop with floating black strings of soot if you try hard enough......
I refurbed a mates diamond back with that finish. It had some patches of missing paint to touched in with white and used some lit paper to create the smoke effect, then clear coated.
Reminded me of how much repainting I did bitd. Even managed fades using rattle cans and strategically angled paper to prevent the fade going too far.
Reminded me of how much repainting I did bitd. Even managed fades using rattle cans and strategically angled paper to prevent the fade going too far.
