Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 My new gun cart is about a dozen screw holes from being finished and then comes the paint. What colors? I'm thinking Black, silver and ORANGE! Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 PAINT? I think I'm gonna be ill. Painting wood is a sin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey Business Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Agree with ya Dave. Stain the darn thing Badger. Or varnish. Unless you're using cardboard. Are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I'd go with a polyurethane or stain or both or something, if anything at all. I wouldn't prefer paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 PAINT? I think I'm gonna be ill. Painting wood is a sin. I am a sinner. Agree with ya Dave. Stain the darn thing Badger. Or varnish. Unless you're using cardboard. Are you? Yeu learned my secret. It sez Westinghouse richt there on the side. Light weight tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I used to be active on a woodworking forum when that was my primary hobby before I got hooked on CAS, anyway I got to know a very talented professional woodworker who does work that goes into multi million dollar homes up in Aspen and the like. He built this one piece that was very nice, can't remember what, a table or something, anyway, built out of nice hardwood. He met with the designer and homeowner to finalize the finish, and they made him paint it. It about broke my heart to see the before and after pictures of that piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 One of my ideas was to paint a barber pole effect on the rifle rack. With green bucket for ammo. Like grass. Maybe Astroturf in the bottom. What do ya thunk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I think it should be painted to look like that hippy psychedelic flower power VW van you used to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I agree wif dem other folk....stain...or hand oil wood be best. (Get it....I made a funny der.....WOOD be best ! .....Git it ....ummmmmmm) But ifin ya dead set on paint da dang thin' I'd paint it red, gray and blue !! Ask me why........go on.....ask.........I triple dawg dare ya ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I think it should be painted to look like that hippy psychedelic flower power VW van you used to have. I tank ya both need to see dat shrink again..... y'all got robbed !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Why? Not you Grizz....dadburn it...... Badger !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 My wife told me it's a good thing I have broad shoulders...to bear all the blame she puts on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 Y? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Painting wood is perfectly fine. And correct for the period. Strong boxes were painted, limber chests were painted, stage coaches were painted. Wells Fargo Chest, 1855 Wagon Limber Chest For Gating Gun It really has only been in the last 50 years or so that unpainted wood has become "the" way to do everything. ADDED: VMI Guns Body of it orange, your hardware black trimmed with silver. Should look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Joe, now don't go and confuse things with facts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabby the frog 21716 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 i think you could do john deere green with bright yellow accents gabby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 Maybe I could put a top on it and have fringe. Surrey with the fringe on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 What do ya thunk? I think you should be locked up for your own protection, but it's your cart. Do what you want and tell me (and anyone else) to kiss off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabby the frog 21716 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 i usually put finge on my shirt been doing bwestern even before it was catagory whose going at someone running around with two sixguns a rifle and sshotgun gabby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Joe, now don't go and confuse things with facts! I'll tell ya, the first time I saw those red-orange guns from VMI it made my head twitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 i usually put finge on my shirt been doing bwestern even before it was catagory whose going at someone running around with two sixguns a rifle and sshotgun gabby I am in a category all by myself, Gabby. I'll tell ya, the first time I saw those red-orange guns from VMI it made my head twitch. The pink ones are kinda nifty tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Y? DEMS DA CONFEDERATECY COLORS !!! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 My new gun cart is about a dozen screw holes from being finished and then comes the paint. What colors? I'm thinking Black, silver and ORANGE! Suggestions? I can't see your cart.. but I can see you.. and the cart needs to be black walnut stain.. with Gold and Silver BMC's Posse Guns written all over it.. Forget the little rubber ducks you wanted to staple too it.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Some woods don't deserve stain. Do what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I am in a category all by myself, Gabby. The pink ones are kinda nifty tho. I'm partial to the mauve and lavender ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Hay Badger...paint it 'Seahawks' Navy,'Seahawks' Blue with white accent lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 My new gun cart is about a dozen screw holes from being finished and then comes the paint. What colors? I'm thinking Black, silver and ORANGE! Suggestions? What do ya got...a Harley Davidson guncart????? Have at it; guncarts are the one part of SASS that no one has yet infected with multiple lawyers of rules - do as you damn well see fit!!!! LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 LINK There ya go BMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 BMC Throw a bit of stain at it , then give it about 21 coats of clear . That will make the grain stand out , just a little . CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint McCloud 3103L Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Obviously, it needs to be purple... Vaya con Dios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 Hay Badger...paint it 'Seahawks' Navy,'Seahawks' Blue with white accent lines. Yeah Bobb! I could give it a coat of Matt Hassleback Blue! A Titan of a gun cart! Since I have dark and light wood. Mayhaps a coat or three of clear varnish, na, Spar Varnish? Or polyurethane? No stain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 SEQUINS! Fabulous!! Or a Yankee Doodle pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Obviously, it needs to be purple... Vaya con Dios Nothing wrong with purple. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b90/edwardgfisher/Holy_terror_with_cart.jpg This was the Germinator's cart that we lent to Holy Terror when she visited The Great Nor'easter in 2008. HT did not take her brass with her but she made sure she took the purple name tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 There is always green. US Gun Cart From the 1862 Ordnance Manual (which is long before the cart in the photo, but the color is about the same) Olive Paste Yellow ochre, Pulverized 68 Lampblack 11 Boiled oil 37 Spirits of turpentine 0.4 Make a thick paste with the Ocre and oil, in a paint-pot, and with the lampblack and oil in another; grind them together in small portions, and keep the mixture in a tin vessel. Liquid olive color Olive paste 61.5 Boiled oil 29.5 Spirits of turpentine 5.5 Dryings 3.5 Japan varnish 2 Stirred together in a paint pot. Some have reported that using the modern versions of these ingredients gives a kind of yellow green. I suspect that the yellow ocher is of a much higher purity now, and that whatever is used for lamp black has a greatly different chemical composition than in the 1860s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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