Kettle color

[Duke]

I wonder if the Crazed might even be yellowish?

[reillyranch]

I think the "crazed" or "custom" as the Weber time line describes it was originally black with white squiggles.  Maybe the black has aged to green and the white has aged to yellow.   I will take a better picture a little closer to the bowl and you can see the gradual color change.   

http://imageshack.us/a/img853/4029/iphonebackup29121115.jpg

[Craig]

Found this one on Weber's FB page tonight. Mr. George Stephen himself doing a demo on a "crazed" black kettle. Circa mid 1950s.

[1buckie]

Generally around that time, the artist Jackson Pollock made famous the flipping, flinging, spiderwebbing & dripping of paint.....

For a fun little aside, there's this:

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Enter the site & move your mouse around.....

Paint like Jackson Pollock !!!

Left click once to change color.......

[Jeff]

Found this one on Weber's FB page tonight. Mr. George Stephen himself doing a demo on a "crazed" black kettle. Circa mid 1950s.

Thats not "crazing", thats a 1956 Weber Custom Bar-B-Q kettle.  Thats how they were painted to look!  I've seen one of those....doesnt Ed have one of these too?

[reillyranch]

I have a 18.5 "Custom B-B-Q", it is in the picture I posted above.  I think it started life as black with white crazing, now it looks green with yellow crazing.  Maybe the "Custom" ment is was "Crazed".

Another example of the crazing look is this 1950's KampKold (by Kamp Kraft) cooler.  (A lot of bowling balls were painted that way too.)

http://imageshack.us/a/img825/1192/kamp1.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img197/7180/kamp2z.png

[glrasmussen]

I have a 18.5 "Custom B-B-Q", it is in the picture I posted above.  I think it started life as black with white crazing, now it looks green with yellow crazing.  Maybe the "Custom" ment is was "Crazed".

Another example of the crazing look is this 1950's Kamp Kraft cooler.  (A lot of bowling balls were painted that way too.)

Is it actually stamped "Custom" on the vent?

Greg

[reillyranch]

No, but I will take a picture and update.  The name "Custom" is from the 50 year anniversary poster Weber made, 10 years ago. 

[Craig]

Thats not "crazing", thats a 1956 Weber Custom Bar-B-Q kettle.  Thats how they were painted to look!  I've seen one of those....doesnt Ed have one of these too?

Good call, Jeff!  I didn't think of that at first. I kind of like the effect.

[reillyranch]

In responce to the 18.5 Custom BBQ Kettle I have, after looking closer, it might have been orginally green with yellow squiggles, or "crazing".   

http://imageshack.us/a/img843/6273/closeupcustom.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img6/6103/custompaint.png

[glrasmussen]

In responce to the 18.5 Custom BBQ Kettle I have, after looking closer, it might have been orginally green with yellow squiggles, or "crazing".   

http://imageshack.us/a/img843/6273/closeupcustom.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img6/6103/custompaint.png

Well regardless, that thing is the bomb!

[1buckie]

Now, getting a good close look at the way it was done, $10 says it was inspired by Jackson Pollock......

He was all the rage right around then

Extra high viscosity enamel, layed on over the wet base, then baked.....WOW !!!

I gonna maybe try a replica on an worn, fixed up black, if I can find some good liquid hi-heat....

Right on the beam for modern art in the 50's.....

It looks just like the 1st layer of one of his paintings....

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Jackson%20Pollock&page=1&f=People&cr=4

[Craig]

Now, getting a good close look at the way it was done, $10 says it was inspired by Jackson Pollock......

He was all the rage right around then

Extra high viscosity enamel, layed on over the wet base, then baked.....WOW !!!

I gonna maybe try a replica on an worn, fixed up black, if I can find some good liquid hi-heat....

Right on the beam for modern art in the 50's.....

It looks just like the 1st layer of one of his paintings....

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Jackson%20Pollock&page=1&f=People&cr=4

I would agree with everything you said, Buckie. Looks like the crazing finish was as popular with Weber in the 1950s as avocado and lime were for kettles in the 1970s.

[1buckie]

It's just that I'm real familiar with his art, had a terrific teacher in high school that would show us endless slides of artworks all thru the ages & he's a minor American painter himself....

He got his "in" to the New York scene with very large blow-ups (6x10feet) of tiny (1x2inches) photos of Pollock style paint flips that me & a couple close friends had done.....made his day!!!

It's ( the 'crazing / spiderwebbing ) of paint is actually a section or aspect of American art.....

It shows up on high end automotive paint jobs also.....

Why shouldn't it show up on a Weber ?

I'm thankin' Ed for putting up those fantastic photos !!!

[1buckie]

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Yeah, yeah, yeah..........danger Will Robinson, etc., etc.........

Over a year old & needs MANY MORE votes !!!!!