Repairs... Once in a while things need a little help getting on...
Found and old crokinole / carom board. Really nice look but the surface was pretty dirty and the corner nets deteriorated. Thought I'd clean it up a bit. A little alcohol? It's taking of the old gummy varnish. Good. Aw geez... it's taking off the paint too. Fine. Off it comes. Pull out the nets. Made permanent pockets for the carom side.
Okay, stripped it down and recolored it. Used a paint pen for the gold. Made it easy. Hmm... maybe I should do a compatibility check with some urethane on a separate piece. Black and red hold up. But the gold on the crokinole side bleeds like crazy. Ugh. Okay. Create a mask to spray a protective coating on the gold before putting on the urethane. Oh... I should test that too. Well now... the gold doesn't bleed, but the urethane doesn't stick to the clear spray.
Time to sand the crokinole side down, get everything off, stain it, and then try a gold enamel spray. Onward I go...
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Okay, stripped it down and recolored it. Used a paint pen for the gold. Made it easy. Hmm... maybe I should do a compatibility check with some urethane on a separate piece. Black and red hold up. But the gold on the crokinole side bleeds like crazy. Ugh. Okay. Create a mask to spray a protective coating on the gold before putting on the urethane. Oh... I should test that too. Well now... the gold doesn't bleed, but the urethane doesn't stick to the clear spray.
Time to sand the crokinole side down, get everything off, stain it, and then try a gold enamel spray. Onward I go...
Click picks for a closer look.
The gargoyles had suffered the weather... sun, rain, snow... and some sort of blunt force drama.
They needed help. Some patching... the one on the left in the first picture was tended to first...
And they're ready to do whatever they do... again....
They needed help. Some patching... the one on the left in the first picture was tended to first...
And they're ready to do whatever they do... again....
The music box...
This automated music box has been lying around... neglected...
It's actually quite neat. It's windup... the stick horse if the on/off switch... the doll looks around, the top spins... the soldiers march around the castle....
Before passing it on to someone else it needed a few repairs... the bear springy hat was spung, the basket was missing a handle, and worst of all, the platoon of soldiers has lost some of its guys....
A little bit of computer modeling... some 3D printing... painting... and it's again complete....
This automated music box has been lying around... neglected...
It's actually quite neat. It's windup... the stick horse if the on/off switch... the doll looks around, the top spins... the soldiers march around the castle....
Before passing it on to someone else it needed a few repairs... the bear springy hat was spung, the basket was missing a handle, and worst of all, the platoon of soldiers has lost some of its guys....
A little bit of computer modeling... some 3D printing... painting... and it's again complete....