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For tips on using flakes with faux finish, see our faux tips page. Whether creating an underwater look using our peacock flake or just adding some glitz and glam to a storefront, our flakes have been doing great things in the world of faux finish and interior design. We have had great success with people in the world of interior decor and faux finish as well. In addition to paint and powder coat, boat builders and fiberglass fabrictors have used our products in both the restoration of old fiberglass and the creation of new fiberglass products. All of our flakes (except for the chameleons) have a 400 degree temperature threshold, so they can be used easily in powder coatings as well as paint and gel coat. Even mixing the flakes at 1/40 ratio with any color of powder coatings can give you an excellent flake effect. Powder coaters have also had great success with our products. These little beauties add holographic rainbow effects to any paint job, whether it be candy paint or pearl paint.

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Speaking of color-changing, we sell a full variety of hologram and prismatic flakes. These flakes, when painted over a black surface, add an incredible overall color-chaging effect to your project. We also sell an variety of chameleon flakes, which are doing great things in the color-changing and chameleon paint world. As we say around here, 'One jar paints a car.' Remember, unlike some flakes that people dust onto wet clear-coat dry and spend about 400 bucks for 20 jars of flake to paint a single auto, our system is much more efficient.

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See our tips pages for more information, our download our instructional PDF. Keep in mind, that even though they are called ' metal flake', most of our flakes are made from special solvent-resistant polyesters that can withstand the chemicals in the clear coat. We have seen full coverage with just 3 coats of clear on these flakes, and your door and hood edges will be as smooth as if you just rolled the car off the showroom floor. Knockdown isn't even an issue with our flake. Just choose your base coat (black is good if you want the paint to take on the color of the flakes), and add a heaping tablespoon of our flake to any clear coat (although we recommend a base clear for mixing the flake into, like PPG's DBC-500, or HOK's intercoat clear). 004' size (that's 4 thousandths of an inch).Ĭreating a great metal flake paint job is super simple with our flakes. Our flakes are so small, they give perfect coverage to even the smallest edges you can find in any applications.

See our user's pictures for a good idea of what these beautiful flakes can do for your custom paint job. The fact of the matter is that painters can still get big sparkle out of small flakes, so we choose to sell mainly the smallest metal flake, although we can get larger flake sizes for those who insist upon larger flakes. We have seen some metal flake paint jobs that were such a disaster because the flakes were too large to go around the edges of doors, hoods, etc.

In most of the older flake jobs, the amount of extra knockdown and sanding involved with doing the overall paint job makes metal flake the lesser desirable option when using custom paint. The problem has always been the tons of extra work involved when painting with standard sized flakes.

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How to add Metal Flake to your Custom Paint JobĬlick HERE to go directly to our Metal Flake STORE!Ĭlassically, metal flake paint is a staple in the custom painting world.

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