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Location: Taxed To Death State | Has anyone here repainted a brown colored bowl on an early 80's Adamas II bowl? My 81 needs a respray and was wondering if and what others have used as a close match. Texture is still in tact, just needs a respray. I'm assuming it is a enamel based satin or semi-gloss. Thanks |
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | As near as I can tell the paint used on the bowls are a much harder formulation than ordinary enamel. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it's either epoxy or some kind of poly finish. (polyester/polyurethane, etc.)
Dope thinner (acetone/MEK, etc.) dissolves ordinary enamel. I have some dope thinner and I'll test it on the bowl of the 1617 project guitar I have and let you know whether it's enamel-based.
When I was working on my 1619, I tried to find brown-textured paint, but had no luck. I ended up using black Rust_Oleum pick-up truck bed liner paint. It's not nearly has hard as the stock paint, but the texture is pretty close to stock. |
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Location: Utah | Dan, have you contacted the repair shop at the old factory to see if they can repaint it? |
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Location: Taxed To Death State | I did contact them. They can do it, but it is a bit more expensive than a rattle can. Since the texture is in tact, I figured I'd try it myself. |
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | FWIW, other than a good surface cleaning, the dope thinner had no effect at all on the bowl paint. |
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Location: Indiana | Yeah, it's tough stuff. Nothing would faze it when I was striping the Vipers. Lots of sanding.Probably catalyzed polyester.
Edited by Jonmark Stone 2014-10-28 12:07 PM
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Adamas II Brown Bowl Paint