{"id":677,"date":"2018-01-27T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianpaonessa.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-02-18T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T00:55:24","slug":"more-work-on-harrys-old-garden-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brianpaonessa.com\/blog\/more-work-on-harrys-old-garden-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"More Work On Harry’s Old Garden Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back I picked up some rusty, old garden tools from my friend Harry’s House. If you’re interested you can find more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paint day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jess was away for the week and the weather was nice so it seemed like a perfect time to get some painting done. A couple of weeks before I removed the rust using naval jelly and gave them a couple of coats of prime (Rust-oleum Rusty Metal Primer). On painting day they were sanded almost to bare metal and prepared for paint.<\/p>\n

The handles on two of the shovels were painted metal flake blue–which I really liked. I had a couple old cans of Dupli-Color MetalCast paint, one was blue so I thought that would be a perfect fit. The MetalCast spray paint requires a base layer (metal flake ground coat), which I had a can on hand. Unfortunately, that was only enough to do some of the tools and one shovel had to be put away for another day.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t used this paint for a while and I forgot how frustrating it is. It spatters, clogs and is just generally frustrating, that being said its amazing if you take your time. The spray paint, now 10+ years old was particularly frustrating. The blue can was only about 1\/3rd full, and was depleted very quickly, but I had a partial can of purple and green which I finished up the project with.<\/p>\n

Before Paint:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t