Just wanted to thank SilverWings for this posting! I have two projects that need webbing and finally had some time to mix up the various chemicals and give it a shot. Dusted off an antique Sharpe gun that had been kicking around my toolbox for damn near 30 years.

Since I was missing that correct mixing device I improvised! It lacquer thinner is 10% of the mix I made that my base with it being a 1/2 once, glue being an 1.5 ounce and paint being roughly 3.5 ounces. Got a big piece of cardboard out and started fiddling with the dials!

With a little practice it was fairly easy to get the density of webbing I wanted after tweaking the dials and speed of sweep.

Thank you! I have two cabinets to do and feel better about being able to do them proper.

Gary

P.S. The webbing shown below is just a practice piece that I had gone over a few times to get the hang of it and not representative of what the final will look like.

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Webbing done, very pleased with the results.

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You don't need a lot of air compressor to do the job, cabinet took me less than 5 minutes at 40 psi, so not a lot of volume used. I spent more time looking, shoot, look, shoot, etc. I bet I could do the next one under a minute.

sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, done.

Gun is listed- Any old school siphon gun will do I think, mine is over 30 years old. I bet you can still find them cheap.

I just cleaned up with acetone, cleans up fast.

I have two HVLP vertical guns, I'll have to give it a shot and report results.

I have seen a wide variation of webbing from almost none to fairly heavy. My Domino is fairly light, the inside cabinet of Hearts and Spades was fairly dense. All going to depend on who was manning the paint gun that day and how diligent they were.

Wide variations are the norm. Seen the same thing when restoring cars.

One has neat undercoating and the next looks like the new guy in training was given the gun after a six pack lunch. The discussions over what is correct gets rather heated at times.

If they were all uniform considering how many were made and how webbing is applied it would be a miracle.

Be honest, most of the glue seemed to clump up in the bottom of the gun. The next cab I do I'm going to leave the glue out and see what it looks like on a test piece.

Just black paint

I'd touch base with them and ask for a clarification.

Not to use lacquer webbing or lacquer for your primary colors. The webbing is so fine and generally sparse I doubt it would be an issue with stencils but it doesn't hurt to ask.

This turned into a dead end- No matter the ratio of paint to thinner or gun settings produced any webbing. Gave a healthy blob of glue into the gun paint cup, mixed and webbing arrived. Lesson learned!

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Your tests in the first post are very much appreciated, I just like tinkering. The glue dissolved much better this time, I think because I had a larger amount of thinner in this mixture.