Checking out Harbours youtubes, was noticing in the pinline video the guy uses a tube of… paint?
What is it?
It’s paint.
There’s a write-up somewhere in the archives here. As I recall, it’s just plain ol’ uncut art-store acrylic. Thanks for the reminder though, it’s a trick I should try.
Wow…I CAN learn something new afterall! I thought I was an old dog after more pinlines than sunrises…
He’s damn quick too!
Josh
You basically lay the paint between the tapelines; the trick is smoothing it out with a piece of rubber squeegee as in the video. It’s a lot harder than it looks to spread it evenly. The nice thing about this technique is that the tube paint is so thick it doesn’t bleed under the tape very much.
I tried this method and I say: “goodluck doing the same!” just another case of extremely well-trained people doing it again and again every day and not even thinking of it so it looks quite easy on the video. Try it and see for yourself…
As for me, I’ve been using a very tiny paint roller with un-diluted acrylic and it works for me (no brush mark, very even layout):
I figured someone here had tried it. What made it harder than it looked, balsa? Getting it smooth?
I’ve actually been using one-shot enamel and pinstriping brushes over finesse pinstriping tape, and it works great. Only problem is the setup and cleanup of the paint and the brush is a minor pain. Would love to do it right out of a tube.
Just art store tube acrylic paint. I’m definately trying it. I usually use tinted gloss resin. Then sand it back down.
I can’t wait to try this. Can you just lay down the pin on the sanded coat before a gloss coat, then just gloss right
over it ?
Thanks guys,
T.
I did it and it worked but is not nearly so easy as the guy makes it look in the video. But like a lot of things, if you did it ten or twenty thousand times, it would probably get a lot easier!! Tricky to get just the right amount of paint coming out of the tube; you are using the nozzle of the paint tube sort of like a mini-squeegee as you’re moving it across the deck of the board. Of all the methods I’ve tried, I am rarely tempted to go back to this one.
Balsa - is that plastic wrap over the deck of your board while you are pinlining? Interesting…
Yes Keith, you got a keen eye. I use that for cutlaps masking and pinline masking, too (although, most of the time, two bands of 2" masking tape will be enough).
What is the most preffered method, would you guys say? I’ve only done resin pin lines and am looking to do something else.
T.
Works easier with thin pinlines. (1/16" to1/8"). Not really worth it with anything wider.