tompab
29th August 2012, 07:55 PM
Hey.
So I've been working on my very first project for a while now, it has been taking forever partly because I don't know what I'm doing and partly because of time restraints. You guys could probably knock it over in a couple of hours, but it's been taking me like a month or so worth of weekends.
Anyway, I'm building a spice rack tower, similar to this one on amazon. I'm making it out of pine.
spice rack
I'm almost finished now and I stupidly bought some cheap spray paint from bunnings (glossy black $2) thinking it should be fine. I've applied a first layer and it did not turn out great.. and afterwards, I realised that maybe I should have used some primer or something.
What should I do? Should I just keep putting on some more layers and it will get better, or do I need to try and sand it down or something? Or maybe I can just cheat somehow and put a primer or something on now and then more paint after? I have no idea :)
I got a feeling it will be a huge amount of effort to try and remove the paint and I was really excited about bringing the spice rack in this weekend. Also, I nearly killed myself just trying to sand the inside of the 40 holes to a somewhat smooth finish and I don't feel good about doing all that again...
EDIT: I should clarify what I mean by the paint not being fantastic. First of all it's a bit blotchy, but I can live with that (and probably improve it a bit with subsequent paint coatings). The main problem is that it doesn't feel nice to touch. It was really smooth and nice before I spray painted it and now it feels rough and not so nice. Maybe this is normal, am I supposed to sand after painting or will the next layer fix it? It is supposed to be "glossy black", so I expected a really smooth finish. This also made me worry about how durable it will be, ie whether the paint is just going to flake off and look #### in a few weeks. I'm strongly leaning towards NOT sanding it and starting over, but some tips and suggestions on what I can do from this point on to make the best of it would be much appreciated.
So I've been working on my very first project for a while now, it has been taking forever partly because I don't know what I'm doing and partly because of time restraints. You guys could probably knock it over in a couple of hours, but it's been taking me like a month or so worth of weekends.
Anyway, I'm building a spice rack tower, similar to this one on amazon. I'm making it out of pine.
spice rack
I'm almost finished now and I stupidly bought some cheap spray paint from bunnings (glossy black $2) thinking it should be fine. I've applied a first layer and it did not turn out great.. and afterwards, I realised that maybe I should have used some primer or something.
What should I do? Should I just keep putting on some more layers and it will get better, or do I need to try and sand it down or something? Or maybe I can just cheat somehow and put a primer or something on now and then more paint after? I have no idea :)
I got a feeling it will be a huge amount of effort to try and remove the paint and I was really excited about bringing the spice rack in this weekend. Also, I nearly killed myself just trying to sand the inside of the 40 holes to a somewhat smooth finish and I don't feel good about doing all that again...
EDIT: I should clarify what I mean by the paint not being fantastic. First of all it's a bit blotchy, but I can live with that (and probably improve it a bit with subsequent paint coatings). The main problem is that it doesn't feel nice to touch. It was really smooth and nice before I spray painted it and now it feels rough and not so nice. Maybe this is normal, am I supposed to sand after painting or will the next layer fix it? It is supposed to be "glossy black", so I expected a really smooth finish. This also made me worry about how durable it will be, ie whether the paint is just going to flake off and look #### in a few weeks. I'm strongly leaning towards NOT sanding it and starting over, but some tips and suggestions on what I can do from this point on to make the best of it would be much appreciated.