My story (which I’m sticking to) is that it was too cold in the garage for the paint to harden off!

Today, Sunday, after Mass, I finished the last bit of painting on the Swellbox louvred doors and the Swell access panels.  Four of the swell doors from All Souls had split, so I have glued and screwed them together before applying the final paint.  Because these items undergo a lot of movement, they have been painted with exterior gloss paint – which is very hardwearing (it has to be – we have no plans to remove them for at least 25 years!).  This means that the dining table at home is no longer the resting place for drying paintwork!

I have also tried out a few more paint experiments on the display pipes – and I think we may be getting there! As we are having gold colouring on the tops of the organ case, I thought that it would be good if we could have the pipe mouth flats coloured gold to match.  I am quite pleased with the result.  The next moved, once the gold has hardened off is to paint the rest of each pipe and see how it all looks.  It’s a bit slow, as it takes about 18 hours for the gold to harden off before it can take masking tape and I can then spray the final metal paint coat.

So far, so good