No spray cans here, they just don't cut it at all. THat's tiny fine chips of mylar floating in a colored clear that give the sparkle. House of Kolor, Ditzler, and DuPont make quality finishes Use the same manufacturer for all the components of the job, if you can, primer, thinner, base coat, color coat and clear, if you're doing the whole thing that way. There's lots of colors available in automotive acrylic lacquer, check out especially GM Firemist Iridescent colors. I've had a bit of trouble shooting metallic with an airbrush. You can shoot metallic with any good lacquer gun, it helps if you have an agitator cup to keep the metal powder stirred up, although you can swirl it by hand. You can spray this with a can, but its REALLY hard to get good results, its difficult to lay it on evenly enough, and the edges of each spray pass seem to show. The occasional guitar, if the guy wanted something like candy flames.Ī metallic gold, like you see on a Les Paul, is metal dust suspended in clear, maybe a tinted, clear.

Qualifier: I used to paint custom motorcycles, so I did a lot of this kind of thing. We have opened a discussion thread in the Pub section discussing this. We will include a very detailed password checklist. We want to highly recommend that members turn on and use TGP's two-factor authentication option.

We highly recommend every member reading this change their passwords as a precaution. We have forced email revalidation for all members that have not signed on for a while. None of the accounts compromised were using two-factor authentication. Talking to one member as I am working through getting his account back in order, he informed me that his Apple password manager had been compromised and made available on the dark web. In today's world, that is false confidence you can no longer afford.Įvery account that I've restored so far to the original owner was using compromised passwords. It is heartbreaking to see that the lure of saving some money will still fool people into using those methods to save a few dollars. Unfortunately, we cannot control how members do deals. However, the best way to prevent this is for members to exercise proper password hygiene (which I'll detail below), turn on two-factor authentication, and - I implore every single person here - only use payment methods that have buyer protection. We've made security changes that I don't want to detail here to stop them. They have scammed members in the Emporiums by creating ads with stolen photos and requesting Paypal F&F or Venmo exclusively for payment. Some fraudsters have compromised TGP accounts have in the past few days.

Gold sparkle paint