[Hallicrafters] wrinkle painting

[Nash4447 at cs.com]

Like most fellows, I have had varying degrees of success wrinkle painting 
from an aerosol can.  Small pieces usually turn out OK. Larger pieces require 
doing sections at a time. For example, doing a cabinet requires doing one side at 
a time but sometimes even then, the coarseness comes out different from one 
side to the other. Oven baking is best.  Heat the piece first to about 150 
degrees, quickly remove it, paint, and reinsert in the oven with all pilot lights 
extinguished.

VHT makes wrinkle in red, gray, and black. They have a web site and you can 
easily contact them and they will sell direct.  I bought several cans of each 
but have only used the black and red colors. Their gray is too far off for my 
purposes. I had to wrinkle in black and then overspray with the proper gray. 

Like some commenters, the very best way to go on a large piece such as a 
cabinet is to strip the piece down to the bare metal yourself ( using a heavy coat 
paste type stripper available from the big box stores ) and then take the 
item to a professional powder coat operation and have them wrinkle it. It turns 
out like factory that way, completely even.  I had a NC 300 cabinet done by a 
powder coater for $60 and it was well worth it. You can find powder coat 
operations usually under "painters-commercial" in the yellow pages. 

73s Glenn K6PZT