Hey Guys
Also, I'd probably suggest that before you spray, take the plastic shell off the pad and spray a little bit of your paint onto the inside of the shell. This way you can test to make sure the paint won't have a bad reaction to the plastic and melt it or that!!
I would probably stick clear of Krylon paints etc too. Do like Matt suggested and look at a good quality car paint.
You could also give them a final coat of clear, rub it down and give it a buff and the surfaces should come up mirror finish, if that's what you're into? If you checkout some of the custom guitar building sites around they explain how to do this.
Regards
--
Darren
-----Original Message-----
From:
Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Matt
Sent: Thu 5/06/2008 3:45 PM
To:
Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.comSubject: [Simmons Drums] Re: Painting Pads...
I painted some black SDS7 pads yellow and they came up really well.
I basically used car/auto paint with a primer. Not sure what country
you're in but the primer was Wattyl Sigma Etch Cream, as far as the
colour goes don't buy cheap stuff, ask for the best car enamel you can
get, it might cost a bit more but it'll be well worth it!
I did 4 pads and 1 can of primer and 1 can of colour enamel was all I
needed, you'll need to do at least 2 coats of the colour enamel to get
a perfect surface.
--- In
Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "hitnrunrocks"
<hitnrunrocks@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all! I've been lurking awhile and decided to post.I have a
nice
> SDS-1000 set I scored on eBay late last year and have been thinking
of
> painting the shells of the pads.These are the SDS 9 style.They are
> black, which seems to be plentyful,so I'm not too worried about
> decreasing their value...plus I plan to hang onto them.
> I'm wondering who has done this and what types of paint/primer work
> best?I may do some step by step photos as I go.Any advice will be
> appreciated.Thanks in advance.
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]