The router bit is a 1" diameter bit with the shank turned down to 5/8" to fit the portable router. When the going got steadily tougher in the first 8" of travel, he stopped to check the bit. Just below the plate the router bit was dulled and trashed! He was sure he had hit a screw protruding from the backside of the carving. To make it short.............he hadn't. BTW......that was an $85 bit. He installed a second bit he had taken for safety and, within another 12" of travel it too, bogged down. Same thing! He retracted the depth of cut by 1/2" and watched as he began to track. It's the PELUCID that's trashing the bits!! That darned stuff sets up SO hard that it can take the edges right off the flutes on tool-steel router bits! He's on his way back to the studio right now to get our anglehead with the heavy wood cutting disc on it. Rosemary's chiseling the corners. She says that the chisels bite through it, but with a bit of effort. I guess we can resharpen the chisels.

2 $85 bits................geez.......what a sunday. And when I say "rock-hard".......I mean HARD!

(geez......can I spell?)

[ November 04, 2001: Message edited by: pierre ]

How about a Roto Zipper first to cut the outline!
Would it have made any difference?

Like to see a sample of it on my doorstep sometime.(Pelucid)

LOL

[ November 04, 2001: Message edited by: John Smith ]

It sounds like it will go over practically anything. For my typical uses, would it go over latex (acrylic) paints? One-Shot? Are you a dist for all their products or just the Pelucid? Are there any of the other products that would act as a filler/leveler on raw HDU?

I am currently working on a blasted HDU sign that will have some copper leaf and gold leaf effects. I am planning on using the pelucid to keep the copper from tarnishing.

As for application methods, I have sprayed it, brushed it on with a cutter and rolled it on with a black foam roller. Spraying seems to be the best all around method as it distibutes the liquid better. It has the same consistency as One-Shot so you can use it in the same fashion. You just can't keep going over it time-and-time again; try to get it all down with one or two passes. I have considered adding One-Shot to the pelucid to see if I can get a colored top-coat, but, alas, too busy these days to try a sample piece. I will fill you all in on future experiments.

And thanks pierre for bringing this product to us here in Letterville!

pellucid also takes the place of an old product from the 70's called "Dippity Doo"

with this stuff you can comb the hair back on the side of your head and it looks just like the tail fins on a '57 plymouth.

the only problem i have with pellucid is that it is not drinkable like "Mazeppa Rain"

(mazeppa rain, a trademark of big ass products, mazeppa, mn. void where prohibited)

Pelucid can be sprayed, brushed or rolled. Spraying is best, but we do all three here.

Pelucid sets up for a second coat within one hour, but we don't often second coat unless it's a larger project.

Though it's oil based, we spray it down with water around 12 hours after the final application. Sucessive water spraying makes it harder. Each wetting increases hardness.

It has it's own built in UV inhibitors to keep it crystal clear....permanently. We've been using it for 5 years now with no yellowing. They tell me that they introduced the new UV inhibitors about two years ago, but maybe even our older murals are still clear because of geographics. It will not yellow.

Absolutely DO punch rim holes for drainage of excess back into the can.

You can use it on unpainted HDU or any other unpainted substrata.

Works equally well on waterbased or oil based paints. Often we use both water and oil based paints side by side on the same artwork. Of course you won't be using one type of paint over the TOP of the other!......unless you want the rippling effect!

We have experienced ONE instance of failure so far. Grip-Flex or Mathews paints on lighted sign faces will liquefy when sprayed with Pelucid. I can't imagine why anyone would want to shoot Pelucid on a lighted sign face, but be advised it will liquefy these kinds of paints.

We've used it over Gold Leaf and all of the vinyl Gold Leafs without any adverse effect at all. If anyone finds an incident of failure, plese notify us ASAP, so we can investigate the procedure.