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Painted graphic on natural wood?

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#1 ·
I have a customer that wants me to build a piece of furniture for them. The piece will have a graphic painted onto wood while keeping the area outside the graphic natural wood.

How would you go about painting the graphic without creating a “lip” where it was taped off?

I found this example of what appears to be a painted graphic on wood.

 
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#21 ·
If you do not need the grain on the painted areas, I would seal the entire surface first. Then mask off the tinted area. Shoot the tinted area, remove mask, seal again, scuff sand, finish, scuff sand, finish, repeat finish and scuff sanding until the lip is not noticeable.

If you want the cleanest lines, and time is not an issue, after masking, spray the sealer lightly again, then shoot the color. I have not actually done this, but have read about the same technique for painting crisp edges.
 
#26 · (Edited)
I like doing inlays. I just did some cool turquoise and coral stone for a bar top. I made some furniture with it as well. But it's pricey (crushed stone and epoxy resin $$$) and labor. They have black stone as well.

I buy my materials from Treeline. In fact I've got another one lined up fro an HO, just purchased a big chunk of pine slab from a sawmill which needs to be sanded down then inlayed in turq. Fun projects for sure.

Maybe your HO would be interested in going this route. You could lay out their design, fill with stone then epoxy over it for a nice hard glassy finish, Router out a design and just fill.




I buy my stone and glue from here
https://www.treelineusa.com/inlay-materials
 
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