KMG Colours?

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KMG Colours?

If you are buying or building, what is your favourite colour?

What is a deal breaker?

Hammer finished or standard?

Do you make all your machines the same, or do you make them all different so you can refer to them by colour?

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I like a basic grey or anything non distracting, bright or reflective.

Grey, blue, green... hammered is cool.

Anything that made me dizzy would be a deal breaker like checkerboard or fine stripes. I bet you were considering them too... sorry! Any plain color would be ok but I don't want any pink tools, lol.

I'm a patina'd metal kind of guy but I live in a very dry area and don't really have to worry about rust.

 

[Sam Salvati]

Black flat or satin or gloss, gold pinstriping, ON EVERYTHING

 

[mete]

Yes Sam , in the old days machines were often nicely painted and decorated with gold line work. It looks really classy ! Would be nice to have all your machines the same. Have an ooh aah shop .That means when your friends see it they sa y " oooh, aaah !!"

 

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Pin-striping ?

I think you all overestimate my abilities

 

[Justin.Mercier]

Machine patina! (aka no finish but a natural browning) =D

 

[12345678910]

My shop sweats, I can choose between rust and paint, or maybe a shiny steel linseed oil finish.

If i had scrap / free stainless steel I'd do a JT SS with engine turning- but I don"t and I'd rather have a "normal" finished project than another half done masterpiece

 

[butcher_block]

once you get a nice brown on it "rust" is not really a problem

 

[Fellhoelter]

Purple boat flake and Orange pinstripes.

Bonus points for Ghost Flames.

 

[Sam Salvati]

Pin-striping ?

I think you all overestimate my abilities

You don't need to go crazy But follow the lines or contours of the piece, just enough to add some class not make it gaudy.

 

[jonnymac44]

I have a couple of machines from Grizzly and their green color doesn't bother me. I got my KMG from the original owner who never used it much but he did paint it. It's a cool green color close to the Grizzly green but a few shades lighter. It looks pretty good.

If I had a sterile machine and was going to pick a color I'd probably go for a silver hammer finish.

 

[Airborne Steel]

Pin-striping ?

I think you all overestimate my abilities

base coat using the pin stripe color, and do the stripes with tape, then spray the final color and finally remove the tape..

easy pinstripes.

Then clear coat for protection.

 

[grelcar]

John Deere green and yellow. I have rebuilt a couple of old woodworking machines and used these colors. I even put a John Deere sticker on an old radial arm saw. A couple of people commented that they didn't know John Deere made power tools.

Greg

 

[melsdad]

Once I get all the fine tuneing done to my KMG clone it will be powder coated gunmetal grey and all wear surfaces will be gold cadnium plated. I also thought of doing gold pin stripeing to break things up a bit.

 

[R. Mark Lee]

I blued mine.

 

[DanCo]

well they wouldn't do paisley and tye died for me so I guess I will have to improvise.

 

[Erin Burke]

Pin striping?... This was what mine looked like when the paint was fresh. I'm not sure, but I think that it's still there underneath all the black grit.

Erin