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Hammered finish, now available in a convenient rattle can for silver plated instruments.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum ... lsrc=aw.ds

I have used that stuff, and it does work. Actually it’s pretty convincing in its appearance, and would be much easier on a musical instrument than an actual hammered finish.
You’ve got me thinking about buying some of the bronzy-colored cans, and shooting it on my compact Holton.
I guess I should run a poll with the freak jury to discover whether doing that would raise, lower, or do nothing to its resale value.

I suppose the only other question would be how much effect it would have on how the instrument projects - when played in the Wiener Musikverein.

York-aholic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:18 pm Hammered finish, now available in a convenient rattle can for silver plated instruments.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum ... lsrc=aw.ds

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It seems like imparting the hammered finish would induce work hardening of the metal, which may be good, but I don't know enough about the process to really be sure.

hrender wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:37 am It seems like imparting the hammered finish would induce work hardening of the metal, which may be good, but I don't know enough about the process to really be sure.

Since that is an unknown, we needn’t come to blows, over this.

York-aholic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:18 pm Hammered finish, now available in a convenient rattle can for silver plated instruments.
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Hammered paint finishes look great! They have been used on industrial equipment for decades - in combination with super-durable paints. My industrial sewing machines have it. And I think it would look great on fiberglass sousaphones!

...and I was joking about spraying it on a tuba, but now I'm not so sure that it's a joke.

- faux brass hammered-finish paint on exterior (perhaps with buffed/high-gloss bow ferrule lacquered-brass accents, as well as a buffed/high-gloss clear lacquered brass bell interior), and buffed/high-gloss clear lacquered brass slides (as well as - possibly - the engraved area on the bell). I'd probably also go ahead and do buffed/high-gloss clear lacquered brass on the bottom bow cap - as any (let's be real: LIKELY) scuffing would look more normal/natural.

bloke "Rattle-can paints have come a VERY long way...I am able to use them OUTDOORS in very sunny applications, and - even in those sorts of applications - they last for SEVERAL YEARS."

greenbean wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:01 am

York-aholic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:18 pm Hammered finish, now available in a convenient rattle can for silver plated instruments.
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Hammered paint finishes look great! They have been used on industrial equipment for decades - in combination with super-durable paints. My industrial sewing machines have it. And I think it would look great on fiberglass sousaphones!

Agreed. I made a wooden base for my bandsaw (I found it used without one) after restoring the saw. Hammered finish paint worked very well on the stand and covers over minor imperfections nicely.

re: the compact Holton...

Stay tuned.

Here is my main machine...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kUGBvQetMAsPSyAs8

Now imagine this textured paint on a sousaphone... in gold...

I'd like to see a photo of someone's paint job with that Rust-Oleum stuff. The only one I could find when I looked yesterday, the result looked pretty much like any old spray paint, albeit maybe a little lumpy, which for me would probably help disguise painting flaws. I've seen plenty of textured finishes on old machines, and this was not that. But it was a video, so image quality was very low.

I did a web search of sample appearances of how various makers of the faux-hammered-finish rattle-can jobs turn out.
All of them looked fake/synthesized/disingenuous, EXCEPT for this picture which was NOT on a paint-buying webpage.
THIS - in my experience - is how this stuff turns out.
Now...WERE I to use this stuff, which would be more interesting:
- brass faux hammered finish (against bright clear-lacquered brass highlights/offsets, OR...
- some other color of faux hammered finish - ex's: bronze, antique bronze, etc... (against bright clear-lacquered brass highlights/offsets)

eh...??

donn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:34 pm I'd like to see a photo of someone's paint job with that Rust-Oleum stuff. The only one I could find when I looked yesterday, the result looked pretty much like any old spray paint, albeit maybe a little lumpy, which for me would probably help disguise painting flaws. I've seen plenty of textured finishes on old machines, and this was not that. But it was a video, so image quality was very low.

bloke wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:20 pm I did a web search of sample appearances of how various makers of the faux-hammered-finish rattle-can jobs turn out.
All of them looked fake/synthesized/disingenuous, EXCEPT for this picture which was NOT on a paint-buying webpage.
THIS - in my experience - is how this stuff turns out.
Now...WERE I to use this stuff, which would be more interesting:
- brass faux hammered finish (against bright clear-lacquered brass highlights/offsets, OR...
- some other color of faux hammered finish - ex's: bronze, antique bronze, etc... (against bright clear-lacquered brass highlights/offsets)

eh...??

donn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:34 pm I'd like to see a photo of someone's paint job with that Rust-Oleum stuff. The only one I could find when I looked yesterday, the result looked pretty much like any old spray paint, albeit maybe a little lumpy, which for me would probably help disguise painting flaws. I've seen plenty of textured finishes on old machines, and this was not that. But it was a video, so image quality was very low.

I vote for brass color.

Green.

Army green might actually look really good.

I was thinking more of a real green, but it's immaterial if you can't get the paint in that color. It looks to me like the Rust-Oleum hammered paint comes in shades of brown, and "forged hammered" adds gold and pewter. (Don't know what the difference really is - the latter may be more noticeably lumpy, but can't say for sure.)

Notice how all of the paint companies’ pictures of the finish are computer-synthesized pictures, and not actual pictures of how the finish looks.

bloke wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:26 am Notice how all of the paint companies’ pictures of the finish are computer-synthesized pictures, and not actual pictures of how the finish looks.

Well of course. You can’t expect truth in advertising. Don’t go getting all silly on us now.

I get that, but the actual results look better than their computer generated versions.