Brian Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 I recently tried to introduce photo-luminescent pigment (glow powder) into an oil based flourescent paint to give it a special effect of glowing and changing colors. I used Ready Set Glow pigments for the job and I'll have to say while they do a fantastic job with the Red the other colors failed for me in two different area's. The first was quantity vs charge, I had to add far more (then recomended) in order to get the original paint to have the quality desired for the glow effect. The second area was after the mix of course the original paint became to thick to work with so my quest for a color changing guitar paint job continue's........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 Brian: Keep looking! That would be a VERY cool-one of a kind type of finish if you could make it work!!! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willin Posted June 27, 2003 Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 Wow, that sounds insane! I would love to see something like that! Could you possibly post pictures of the "failure" paint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 I'll give it another shot sometime this next week and take some pictures of the next try, I didn't take any of the other one before I stripped it back down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted June 28, 2003 Report Share Posted June 28, 2003 Dunno if this is any help, but a couple of my Raver/Industrial buds used some of the paint from these two sources to "decorate" their warehouse space without the landlord knowing. They both also make "invisible" UV paint. Risk Reactor Shannon Luminous Materials They used spray lacquer if I'm not mistaken, and had good results - doesn't show with the lights on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2003 Thanks lovekraft, I've played with those in the past. The difference between those and the paint formula that I'm working on now is when you hit the guitar with a UV or Sunlight it will not only change color but it remains that way and a brilliant finish for up to 12 hour's instead of turn on and turn off like that particular paint works. This way the change is completely visable and the guitar actually looks different by just walking outside, it won't change back to it's original color when you walk back in for several hours. Same results using a black light but after it has been exposed it also glows (lumines) on it's own without further exposure needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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