Hello All,
Where do you get your Powder Coat paint?
Harbor Freight?
Barlow's Tackle?
Bass Pro?
Local paint supply house?
Someplace else?
Looking for ideas.
Thanks!
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Hello All,
Where do you get your Powder Coat paint?
Harbor Freight?
Barlow's Tackle?
Bass Pro?
Local paint supply house?
Someplace else?
Looking for ideas.
Thanks!
Bass Pro should be one of your last places to buy, their prices are just too high!
Then it depends on what size containers you want to buy! Some sell bulk as in pound size. TJ's is very good especially on 2 oz jars and on the fluid bed! I never liked the home made fluid beds and his are a lot less than CSI's are!
Tell me more about if you want the small jars of pound size?
Skip
This is a link to Suppliers - http://www.crappie.com/crappie/pouri...ppliers-links/ my post at #7 lists all the powder places I use.
But X2 with Skip - no BPS - the auto powders work just as good.
Columbia coatings got a lot of play at one time.
Thanks for the ideas and thread link. I'll cehck the thread out.
As for quantity, I'll start with 2 oz. for the moment, then consider going up to the pound jars.
Whatever you decide on always buy clear powder paint by the pound!! You mess with glitters or mixing you will go through it quick.
Most of mine has come fromTJ'S POWDER PAINT. Good people to do business with.
crazyangler tackle for the small jars
Oh on the clear get you some from Rosey's 200% Gloss and you will want to put some of this into every color you use. It will help it work better in the fluid bed! You can also buy the Pro-Tec Clear for this, I have both actually, LOL!
For the best prices on bulk go to:
Rosey's Powder Coating
Sign up for their emails and they send out specials often.
I got side tracked last night, reading all the links and listed vendors. One that stood out to me was Rosey's. Their pound prices were great. On their specials I can buy a pound for less than the cost of 2 oz.
Clint, any recommendations on white, chartreuse, and black?
Hey buddy, the Chartreuse is the only catch, Pro-Tec are the only people that get that color so I just bought a pound of it a long time ago. As far as I know it's the only one like that so maybe just jump on a 2 Oz jar.
Would think Black and White most any will do as long as it high gloss. Am sure Rosey's has both or I would think so. I bought a lot of my paint before Rosey's became known and not sure they were around back then. So I paid more for a lot of mine, but still I have way too much.
For some reason Rosey's doesn't have that I am sure Columbia Coating has it. If not that then ebay!
Skip
I like jannsnetcraft, crazy angler, nimrods tackle. Just my 2 cents worth.
I still have most of the small jars I started with. I bought a 1 lb jar of Red at Harbor Freight (which is more maroon than red) and 1 lb is a LOT of PP. I would suggest that if you are PPing for yourself that you get together with some other PPers and order a Black, White & Clear from Rosie's and split it up. Rosie's does have a Citrus Yellow I would like to try but I can't see myself using a pound of powder for just myself for the rest of my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanr3
I usually buy from powder buy the pound. That's "buy" with a U. Like Skip said, chartreuse and yellow chartreuse I buy under the pro-tec name. Its been about 3 years since I had to buy any though. A pound of paint will paint a lot of 1/80-1/16 jigs!
Anybody try to mix their own colors?
Some do mix their own colors and other things like adding metal flake or something like that.
Skip
Mix thread is here http://www.crappie.com/crappie/pouri...nt-custom-mix/
What's the company? I for one wouldn't even consider ordering something unless I know the company or the person who actually made something.
Been bitten before.
Absolute Powder Coating
I go through between 4 to 6oz of powder per week in certain colors (during this time of year). One thing you will notice is that each company might have a slightly different hue or tint to it. Some use the same companies to buy in bulk (most commonly the pro-tec name). So, because my customers expect the same colors time in and time out, I know where I buy my colors from. If you are doing it for yourself, the slight difference might not matter that much. Production wise, it matters a great deal. Companies even vary slightly from year to year. Example is that last year, candy gold was more of a light brown, this year it is more of a caramel color.
At any rate, I purchase mass quantities from Jann's Netcraft. I use express shipping (I pretty much have to) and get it in a day but I'm located about 150 miles from them. I am ordering from them at a minimum of once per week. For other select colors, I use TJ's. He is located North of me (in Michigan) and runs a great business. He sells 4oz jars of stuff and has some pretty good mixes too. I purchase all of my fluid bed materials from TJ's to. Yes, I could make my containers but would rather pay TJ's to do the work and his products are worth it.
I ripped through almost 4 oz's of black last night alone. But then again, I'm painting 5/8oz, 3/4oz, and 1oz jigs too
The surface area of a 1oz jig is roughly 12 times that of a 1/16 jig. So you are using 12 times more powder than a "crappie guy" would. So instead of 4oz you would go through 1/3 of an ounce a day. So your system is really not applicable to a crappie jig painter. I have the same 4oz jar of yellow chart from protec that I bought two years ago and I have painted thousands and thousands of 1/64 and 1/32 jigs with it. My pounds of other colors? Those will last for a long time. I dump them into 4oz containers and I don't think I have refilled them yet in 2 years. The white needs refiled from doing base coats on candy jigs and painting white jigs, but that's about it. I don't even want to guess how many jigs I have painted in the last couple years, not sure I can count that high with my Iowa education. I'm not mass producing jigs for sale, but I do paint a lot of jigs in a season!
You got that right. Colors vary from batch to batch and picking a color on the internet is almost impossible for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by wicklundrh
I know all about color, I was in the printing industry for decades. Then paint/powder coat in heavy metal fabrication. Now I audit labs that analyze paint/powder before its used on final products.
How well do you see color?
Simple on-line test... Good luck!
Color Test - Online Color Challenge | X-Rite
I scored a 4. 0 is perfect.
I don't put any stock in the color name. Wish they would publish the CIE Color specs so I could make an educated decision.
CIE Primary Colors and Matching Functions
This one might be easier to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
Well that was easy...
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I hate to tell you this, but expect shades of colors to change from batch to batch on a heck of a lot more items than just paint, LOL! Try you hackle or marabou or anything else that they dye! Nothing stays the same shade if it's altered by the place selling it or the place before them!
Skip
I do production crappie jigs as well. I just happen to sell 1000 more times the bigger jigs due to the conditions the boys are fishing, the locations they are fishing, and so on. Not uncommon to lose as many as 3 to 4 jigs in a single pass on the river some days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin22
Ive used tj's then moved onto Columbia coatings, currently using prismatic powders, and also for some off stuff all powder costs.
Not a problem with any of them.
For anyone who is interested, I picked up (8) 2 oz. samples from Rosey's for ~$36 shipped. That's any color they have in stock too. They may offer you 10 for $35 to start out with but that won't fit in a small flat rate box so shipping is doubled. VERY good folks to deal with.