The last images were just lay up of the camo pattern.
I decided I wanted a little more texture and uniqueness, something like the skin of a water snake.
I learned that if I can get a good enough grip on the muzzle I can load the guns 7mm shaft with my right hand.
So here we go to try something different.....
I taped out the barrel with good 3m blue, than washed with acetone, followed by sanding prep with 80 to
give the G-flex 650 good texture to key to. Wipe down one more time with acetone.
I carried out the work at 78 deg F mixing the G-flex one to one in a wide plastic cup.
The work time at this temp is around 45min before it begins to gel.
Next I applied a wet coat to half the barrel with a foam brush, then laid on my pre-cut camo paper I had scanned and mocked up last week. I used the foam brush to pat a second top coat over the paper.
Now comes the tricky part: after 30min I tied off 10 lb mono line to the muzzle and very carefully wrapped over the camo/resin using app 7mm spacing between wraps.Once the G-flex became tacky I carefully unwound the mono leaving a snake like texture. The images show the the progress before the mono was removed. I'll update wed night after baseball.
Cheers, Don
