Yet Another Skate Painting Thread

wakeboarderdave · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 211 City: St. Thomas

I am about ready to repaint my skate. Should I sand it down to bare wood first? Or does it not matter?

Thanks

David Eggen

kyle13 · Posted: Dec 18, 2006 10:34 am Post subject:

Just sand it to ruffen the paint under it so your new paint job will stick. You can sand more if you want to but it's not really necessary.

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

sand it to bare wood and clear coat it, it will look sweet. Wink

nopulseimpulse · Posted: Dec 18, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

I'm with kyle13 on this one

dirtyohioriver22 · Backside 180 Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 1705 City: cincy

hyfliteskate, that would be sweet, itd be like the new omen but itd be really hard to do without messing it up

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

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wakeboarderdave · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 211 City: St. Thomas

Anybody know of some stuff I can use to seal the wakeskate after it is painted? So the design won't come off? Links would be awesome.

Thanks

Dave

CapriSunAllNatural · Posted: Dec 28, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:

Wakeboarderdave, I've painted my skates multiple times, and to seal them, i used to use some hard lacquers, and they deffinatly work, but they always change the color of the paint, no matter how light you buy the lacquer. So unless your skate is painted mostly black (which isn't affected by lacquer), the cheap, clear, spray-on enamal works just fine and won't change the color of the paint, if you plan to be hitting lots of rails, the enamal wont last more than a couple hits.. You can find the spray-on stuff next to any spray-paints...
Lets see soome pics of what you painted!

wakeboarderdave · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 211 City: St. Thomas

I'm still trying to decide on what I want to do. I was thinking of doing a design like this hoodie acctually. But have letters spelling out brands that I like. Kampus (my skate), reef, oneill, billabong, volcom, accurate, tahoe(boat). Would A white base or a black base look better?