Refinishing Lighting

[bases-loaded@juno.com]

Hi Terry-

I use flourescent lighting overhead, but about 70% of the tubes are
full-spectrum light, giving a very balanced tone, good color rendering,
and greater overall brightness.  They are pricey, but last a long time
and make for a much more pleasant and useful shop environment.

At the spray table, I have 'raking' light to illuminate the spray
surface.  I use two floods horizontal to the surface, and maybe a foot or
two higher, both coming in from the left side.  If you play around with
the angles you should be able to find a good setting.

Mark Potter
bases-loaded@juno.com

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:50:58 -0500 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
writes:
> Terry,
>     I heard that fluorescent was the worst to use for refinishing. 
> Direct
> incandescent seems the way to go although the older my eyes get the 
> more I like
> halogen or mercury vapor. Millions of watts eh?
> 
> Greg
> 
> Farrell wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the midst of yet another stab at piano refinishing. I seem 
> to have
> > trouble seeing how much finish is going on the targeted surface 
> (the big
> > runs appear to be a good indicator of too much going on). I have 
> very good
> > overhead flourescent lighting, but no mid-level or low lighting. 
> If I am
> > looking upwards at a surface, it is generally easy to see. But 
> looking
> > straight on or down at the targeted surface it becomes difficult 
> to see the
> > finish going on. Spraying on black.....er, a, oh, that's right,
> > pianos....ebony, it is fairly easy to see the finish going on, but 
> on a
> > natural (red/brown) stain finish when spraying clearcoats, it is 
> tough to
> > see.
> >
> > Anyone have any handy lighting tricks that work well. Maybe 
> someone could
> > shed some light on this? (Ah, Jeeez, that was bad, wasn't it?)
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> > Piano Tuning & Service
> > Tampa, Florida
> > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
> 
> --
> Greg Newell
> Greg's Piano Forté
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
> 
>