Showing posts with label Custom Painted Blues Harp Mic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Custom Painted Blues Harp Mic. Show all posts
Sunday, December 27, 2015
A Little of the Shelby Daytona Mic and the Gibson Amp....
Recorded after a layoff from a respiratory infection...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Shelby Daytona Mic Completed!
The mic is completed! And it Wails!!!! Frankly, I'm not worthy.
Following the last post, I finally got the chance to lay some clearcoat. I used Kustom Shop 2K Speed Clear and laid 3 nice wet coats. I cured it at 140 degrees for 20 minutes after letting it sit for about 30 minutes.
After then letting it sit for 7 hours, I wet sanded the shell with 2000 grit wet/dry paper in soapy water and then buffed the entire thing back with Meguiars Fine Cut Cleaner. The result is like a mirror. I'm pretty doggone pleased. No hint of edges from the stripes, no ripples or orange peel.
I re-installed the datatag with brass rivets and then soldered in the gear. Screwed in the grounds and the pot.
The silk inside the grill is black and white checkerboard, a la Checkered Flag! What is more appropriate for the grill of this mic!
I topped it off with a machined aluminum volume knob which works perfectly.
Following the last post, I finally got the chance to lay some clearcoat. I used Kustom Shop 2K Speed Clear and laid 3 nice wet coats. I cured it at 140 degrees for 20 minutes after letting it sit for about 30 minutes.
After then letting it sit for 7 hours, I wet sanded the shell with 2000 grit wet/dry paper in soapy water and then buffed the entire thing back with Meguiars Fine Cut Cleaner. The result is like a mirror. I'm pretty doggone pleased. No hint of edges from the stripes, no ripples or orange peel.
I re-installed the datatag with brass rivets and then soldered in the gear. Screwed in the grounds and the pot.
The silk inside the grill is black and white checkerboard, a la Checkered Flag! What is more appropriate for the grill of this mic!
I topped it off with a machined aluminum volume knob which works perfectly.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Cobra Daytona Harp Mic?
A little more progress on this one. I was wanting to do something to this one to give it some character. I thought about ghosting some flames or some 'notes' on the sides, but I decided that my masking skills at that small of a size were just not going to get that job done. I continued to look for inspiration and then I was reading some bedtime 'Vintage Motorsports' magazine articles and saw a picture of the Shelby Daytona Couple. Never has there been a more beautiful race car, and conveniently that car happened to be basically the same blue as the blue I used on the microphone.....
So that meant some white racing stripes. Just like the sportscar racers representing the US in the 60's What is more cool than that!!!!
I used 3M fine line masking tape to mask off the stripes. Getting parallel stripes on such a convex curved surface is quite a feat.
I did test all of this (as well as a couple of different candies over the blue that did not work) on a sheet metal box to make sure that the masking and paint would all work well together. It was a good idea as it helped me get it right.
Here are the results.
So that meant some white racing stripes. Just like the sportscar racers representing the US in the 60's What is more cool than that!!!!
I used 3M fine line masking tape to mask off the stripes. Getting parallel stripes on such a convex curved surface is quite a feat.
I did test all of this (as well as a couple of different candies over the blue that did not work) on a sheet metal box to make sure that the masking and paint would all work well together. It was a good idea as it helped me get it right.
Here are the results.
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