Gunsmithing Cerakoting with Stencils

[ugsly]

How many of you guys use male stenciles for patterns? I used male stencils but dont like layering cerakote up when doing camo patterns and such. I have been using female stencils but is very time consuming taping off the part and spraying just that area. How are you guys doing your patterns using stencils?

Thank you guys,
Kc

 

[BERTMAN77MK2]

Talk to ARP or shortbus

 

[Wintermute]

Chad at Precision Longrifles prints his own with a vinyl printer. Does an absolutely wonderful job and allows for some nice complex patterns

--Wintermute

 

[Straight Shooter]

We use both the male and female patterns. When doing patterns with stencils that is all part of the game. This is why camo costs so much more. The costs of the stencils and the extra masking time.

 

[LRI]

It's been my experience that there's nothing wrong with layering ceracoat. You just have to control your gun and application while spraying. There is a touch to it and the only way to get there is to get in the booth and do it till you get it down.

LRI Desert Holographic:

LRI Desert Digital:

LRI Badlands Holographic:

LRI Urban Digital:

Practice, practice, practice.

My vinyl cutter is a very expensive piece of equipment. Then there's software. . . .You can do it with hobby grade machines, but for the scale were on it takes a bruiser to get stuff done right naww!

I'm about to start selling stencil sheets for the DIY'rs out there. Were working with Oneill Ops to get a video ginned up that'll give the points for guys at home. The kit is stencils only. Other supplies are on you and the results will vary based on your effort at prep work.

Paint is ALL prep work. Spraying is the easy part.

Get that understood up front if you expect a professional grade presentation when your done. Kalli will spend 10+ hours prepping some stocks for a 4X color camo job. I'll take less than ten minutes to spray it. In the beginning we were hand cutting stencils with Xacto blades. We wanted to kill ourselves after the 2nd gun we did. It just sucked, sucked, sucked. You have to use the weeds and the frames for stencils. Least we do. It's the only way to get a truly unique/layered effect with the paint.



C.

 

[ugsly]

Thats what Im asking about I know Im not the fastest at it but im picky. I have around 30 hours into tearing down a M1A degreasing, blasting, coating, applying stenciles, coating again, ect.... Just trying to get a feel for how others are doing it and guage myself.

Thanks Chad,
Kc

 

[Colcalcipherol]

Do you have a website for Chad at Precision Longrifles? I may want to see if he can print me some stencils . . .

 

[Colcalcipherol]

Disregard . . . sometimes all one has to do is scroll down.