Another question about milk paint

[sam]

Does milk paint cover up commpletely? By that I mean, will it cover my pencil marks, or will that all have to be sanded clean?

Thanks,

s

[Phisherman]

No sanding needed. You can quickly remove pencil marks using a rag dampened with 91% alcohol.

[sam]

That's good info. Thanks.

s

[dpb]

Or a big artists' eraser.

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[Leon]

I often used milk paints because I wanted to see through... Are you sure you are using milk paint for the right reason?

[sam]

Probably not, but I'm curious to know what to expect. Thanks.

s

[Lew Hodgett]

Pink Pearl to the rescue.

Lew

[dpb]

Neither the drafting white or the big crumbly gum erasers leave the residue/marking the pink erasers do...

a $0.02, ymmv, imo, etc., etc., etc., comment, of course...

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[Leon]

Anyway, depending on the color, whites probably may not work well but I often use 2 coats if I want an opaque finish.

[J. Clarke]

Just a comment with regard to white erasers, but for 10 bucks you can get a battery powered electric eraser from Staedtler that uses the white material--it seems kind of silly to use a powered eraser until you've actually used one--it's not the speed that makes it nice, it's the precision.

[Larry Jaques]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:52:52 -0600, the infamous sam scrawled the following:

Yeah, guys, so stop using your sharpass knife to mark dovies and other lines which won't be cut away, huh? Use a pencil! (I just had to say that since most folks don't use a plane to remove those telltale marks. Some idiot who wrote an antique pricing book says to look for those to prove it was made 100+ years ago. Har!)

-- The Smart Person learns from his mistakes. The Wise Person learns from the mistakes of others. And then there are all the rest of us...

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