More adventures with paint

Yup, it's an orange model 15.

It's an experiment, well that's what I told myself. It was going to be an experiment and the chance to make a few bucks. How hard can it be to paint a sewing machine?

The truth of course, is that I like bright colors. So many black and gold Singers have passed through my hands, that I look forward to the colorful clones. So when a beat up looking Feather Weight came my way, I got an opportunity to play with paint some more.

Rattle can painting requires some skill, but with some of the modern paints available, not necessarily a whole lot, and I have this 15 that I have robbed all the parts from, so I figured that I was in  like Flint. Strip the Feather Weight and practice painting.

 So, this model 15 went from black, to blue to yellow to orange, as the 221 went from black down to bare aluminum. The Japanned paint on the on 221 is not easy to strip. It took many coats of stripper, Saran wrap and steel wool to get it bare.

Then a coat of primer....

Then a lot of sanding to get the surface of the the self etching primer flat enough for paint.......

Finally, I get to put on some color...and I have to sand that flat enough for decals and clear coats.....

It turns out that applying the paint is easy......It's all the stripping, sanding, cleaning that's smelly boring and tedious, and occasionally painful, when you get some of the stripper on your hands.

Still, you have to admit that the orange is great color for the model 15, and the yellow version was hot too, and then there is the possibility for fire engine red as well. I am thinking, that if I put aside some of my more beat up looking machines, next summer, when the weather is warm again and I won't have to run a heater in the shed, I could make some really great looking sewing machines!

Put your orders in now folks....

It's an experiment, just an experiment, that's what I told myself. Just an experiment........