Painting Sharps

[btrout@desupernet.net]

Hi Larry,

You got some pretty good advice here already, but I'll throw out my 2 cents worth.

If the sharps are in pretty good shape overall, (not all beat up) but just need
some finish on them, what we do is to clean then well, and spray them with a can
of Krylon satin black. Maybe 3 or 4 coats?.  They usually come out very nice.  The
only thing we've had a little trouble with is when we didn't clean them, there
would sometimes be 'fish eyes' in the finish.  Not a great big deal to most
people, but the surface doesn't get as flat and smooth.

That's on the wooden sharps.  On the plastic ones, we sometimes will run them over
the buffing wheel, but that's another story...

Good luck,

Brian Trout
Quarryville, Pa.

LTpianoman@AOL.COM wrote:

> List,
> Does anyone have a suggestion for blackening sharps without going through a
> long sanding process? Obviously I never painted sharps before.  I have a
> bottle of APSCO Keyblack that I just opened for the first time and it is about
> 1.5 to 2 years old and it is like paste. Is it supposed to be like this, only
> in need of alcohol to thin it? It is advertised as a quick drying easy
> application kind of stain. Is it supposed to be easy? (no sanding).  I also
> read somewhere that Ditzler Automotive paint is good to use but does anyone
> know the process for this kind of paint?  It's probably lacer.  I'm not too
> knowledgeable of painting products and I have some spare keys to experiment
> with if there are some suggestions to explore.  Thanks in advance for your
> help.
>
> Larry Trischetta, NE PA Chapter
> Scranton, PA