Brilliant! Didnt even know these existed.
Gorgeous kettle buckie!
Ken
They didn't.......until now !!!!
Things I
MAY have succeded in accomplishing with this "mod"........
1) Alienating Marty permanently, 'cause it started out life as a regular black kettle.....
2) Figuring out how Golly can be "Feelin' Fruity" all the time....
3) Detirmining what anyone can do if they'd like a color kettle (within reason & high heat color availabliity / constraints)......
4) Expanding the fruit color horizon.....by one.........
5) Detirmining what might work in re: to the high heat colors.......
Here's where it started ~~~>
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A standard black OTS, "L" code..........
Cleaned up & slightly roughed surface, to accept paint better.....coated with high heat primer, one repeated very thick coating.......
![](http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/new%20cookers%202013/MinorWeberModification3006.jpg)
![](http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/new%20cookers%202013/MinorWeberModification3008.jpg)
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Then several coats of high heat Orange...............
then, two multi-stage charcoal burn heat sets,
after allowing it to sit in 102 ~109 degree heat for approx. 10 days.........
Then a fairly thick coating of high heat clear & TWO more heat setting burns.......
I got a little overly zealous on the clear in some spots & it's a bit thick & needs a few more burn cycles to completely fill out the drying......it's a demonstration of how dusty & also how much aireal
livestock is floating around where I live......
The still tacky clear was picking up small gnats & various lite spatter from the pecan trees up above & also dust that's generally always in the air from the busy street out front......
buckie..... can we see it AFTER you have cooked on it? ![Cool 8)](http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
It's effectively been cooked on several times.....just not my "signature greasy bacon, cram the kettle full" kinda cookup....just yet.....
![Cool 8)](http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
Oh, and yes it does turn a bit darker under heat....the 1st few runs it almoost looked brown, but changes less the more times it gets heat set.....