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 ~~~>
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.......
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?
It's effectively been cooked on several times.....just not my "signature greasy bacon, cram the kettle full" kinda cookup....just yet.....
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.....