Pinlines again

After looking at a baker last week, he was using a small bag with a tiny hole in it for making nice pinlines on his products, I went home to try this on my products to. After making the resin in the right collor, bag it, make a tiny hole in the bag and squeeeez it out with a little pressure. If you have a steady hand you don’t even need any tape. Starting to feel like Mack Iver, or what’s his name. Peter Rijk

pinlines out of a pastry bag? wow…if you can put them down accurately without taping, i think a future in neurosurgery may be in order! that’s what i call “thinking out of the box”… regards

Peter: As long as pinlines are up for discussion again…are you guys having luck using paint (if so what type acrylic or paint pens) to lay down pinlines over a hotcoat on a board that is to be glossed. Won’t the paint bleed when the gloss is brushed on? What works? Tom.>>> After looking at a baker last week, he was using a small bag with a tiny > hole in it for making nice pinlines on his products, I went home to try > this on my products to. After making the resin in the right collor, bag > it, make a tiny hole in the bag and squeeeez it out with a little > pressure. If you have a steady hand you don’t even need any tape.>>> Starting to feel like Mack Iver, or what’s his name.>>> Peter Rijk

Peter:>>> As long as pinlines are up for discussion again…are you guys having luck > using paint (if so what type acrylic or paint pens) to lay down pinlines > over a hotcoat on a board that is to be glossed. Won’t the paint bleed > when the gloss is brushed on? What works?>>> Tom. …use a h2o based acrylic like liquitex or posco type pens,I never had them bleed under the gloss as long as you make sure it’s dry!Herb

What I use is a polyester based paint from Voss Chemicals. Originaly this is a realy thick paint and I leave it this way, they come in al the collors from the rainbow and they mix great. As for the bag, I wasn’t meaning a pastry bag, but one a lot smaller with a tiny pinhole in it, as for the pinlines, not the long pinlines on the rail but the smaller one for the logo’s, the finbox or even nose or tail. And again, what works for me, might not work for someone else, the good thing about sharing info is that maybe you can learn things. Peter Rijk.

You can use acrylic or posca pens. If not using resin then paint would be the next choice. It is more opaque than posca pens. Most people use paint it is quicker and more user friendly. I would suggest if you use paint when it is dry go around the pins with the back side of a piece of sand paper a couple of times to roughen them up. Be careful not to rub the pins off (reason for the back of the paper). When you apply the gloss make sure it is not to hot in the gloss area if it is it may cause orange peel or resin seperation from the pins. Glossing over color is tough. Good luck.