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Location: Utah | How do they install those little golden sparkles on the Adamas finish? Presumably they are little brass flecks, but they look too big to spray through an airbrush nozzle. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Good one John! :D
They don't seem to make me a better player. |
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Location: Eaton, Indiana | I don't know how Ovation does it, but I spray a base coat, say black, and then, from a distance, spray a dusting of silver or gold paint. After that dries, I add the final clear finish. Amazing effects under light.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | they put the sparkley shit in a clear coat and spray it on. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Is that the technical term for it Beal? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think the true technical term is glittery. |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by (Mauvais) Beal:
they put the sparkley shit in a clear coat and spray it on. Pretty much the same process that is used for shooting sparkley shit on cars. I've never been to Ovation but I've shot plenty of custom automotive paint. Our technical term is “flakey”.
Originally posted by FlySig:
Presumably they are little brass flecks, but they look too big to spray through an airbrush nozzle. Adamas flakes are very small (micro flake) and will easily pass through an airbrush with a coarse tip if you open it up wide. I’m guessing Ovation used something a little larger though.
QUESTION: Looking closely at my 1687 here I see red flakes mixed in with the gold flakes on the top. My brown one is up at the Mothership so I can’t check it. What do the other Adamas colors have for flakes?
Okay, okay… apart from the people that love and play them. :rolleyes: :D
Do the blue ones have blue flakes, etc?
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I am SO disappointed; here I was, picturing some highly creative, extraordinarily patient person with a very narrow-gauged tweezers carefully placing each glittery speck in precisely the right location.......
;) :D ;)
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1:
I am SO disappointed; here I was, picturing some highly creative, extraordinarily patient person with a very narrow-gauged tweezers carefully placing each glittery speck in precisely the right location.......
;) :D ;)
--Karen That's the lady at the factory that does the abalone. I like her work a lot. :cool: |
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Location: Central Florida | Ixnay, Karen! If we blow the elves' cover they've threatened to come and take all of the flakes back!
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Does anyone know, are there silver flakes? Someday, when I have my own Adamas, it has to have silver flakes in with the turquoise.....
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Initially I think there was blue, red, silver, and gold. I don't recall what was used on models -7 and -9, probably just silver and gold. |
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Sparkles. How do they do it? (Adamas paint)
