Lacquered floor plate

[Brian Hochstrat]

A while back I made an inquired on the forum about lacquering. Here is one of the finished pieces. As you can see from the photo the stuff is pretty much invisible.

 

[algym]

Que belleza!!! Que gran obra!!!

Felicitaciones!!!

Luis

 

[mdengraver]

What kind of lacquer did you use!

 

[C Driver]

Whoa That is , I don't even have words to describe it , great job.
Charlie

 

[dogcatcher]

That is beautiful.

 

[Weldon47]

Very nice!

WL

 

[John B.]

Out of the park home run.

 

[sam]

That's exquisite Brian!

 

[jerrywh]

Beautiful Job. Ron Smith used this on some of his and I used it a couple of times. It works great as you can see. Once again that is a fantastic job and the art work is tops. Did you apply the lacquer with an air brush?

 

[gcleaker]

Holy Cr*p! What is your time investment in this truly piece of art? I may want to take a few lesions.
Skill comes from diligence.

 

[Jerry K]

Just BRILLIANT..........
Jerry K

 

[jerrywh]

I keep looking at this floor plate. It doesn't get any better than this.

 

[Southern Custom]

Beautiful Brian!! The tones and gradation on the art nouveau scroll is as good as it gets. You are a patient man.
Layne

 

[monk]

well, what they all said. tyvm for showing

 

[oiseau metal arts]

brian... Stunning and inspirational work as always. you set a high bar for the rest of us.

I'm guessing you used a spray on lacquer? which one? how many coats? did you coat just the engraved surface, or the rest of the plate?

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

Thanks all for the kind words.

I used an airbrush and just sprayed a real light coat of the varnish. On some test pieces I did, you could easily get it too thick and it looked bad, but spraying lightly with one quick pass seemed to work.

Yeah it took some time, roughly a month, plus I then had to do the rest of the gun........many more months.

Thanks again.

Brian

 

[Lee]

Brian, this is really exceptional work. Bravo:clapping:

 

[JMiller]

Beautiful work, like the background a lot!

 

[treasuresinsteel]

Dear Brian: I trust you won't mind if I send this message. I am new at these kind of forums and I was wondering if I did the right thing and if it the thread that I just posted will be seen by anyone? I decided to write since you are the first person at the top of the threads that were posted today? I just hope that someone will see my thread/message. Any input how to do things on this forum since I have never joined such? Many thanks and have a wonderful Holiday-Dominique in New York.

 

[SamW]

Very well done art Brian and an interesting selection of animals. Me thinks you and Lee are out-Italianing the Italians.