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Greenie DONE!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:49 pm
by wannabewoodworker
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:51 pm
by heathicus
Great job!!!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:55 pm
by wannabewoodworker
Looking at your avatar Heath I noticed that I painted my motor pan the same color as the belt cover which kind of looks strange so I may have to pull the motor pan and paint it silver to get it looking more symetrical but other than that thanks for the kudos.
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:39 pm
by mmorris
Great looking machine, Michael. I really like the color combination. I'll be ready to paint my new greenie purchase in the next few weeks. I already have the paint and am going with close to the original colors.
Maybe when I paint my other greenie (which is blue:), I'll go with the black and silver.
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:30 pm
by mickyd
wannabewoodworker wrote:I posted on the restoration thread but wanted to make a new one so that everyone sees the finished 1954 Mark V Greenie I restored. ..........
Look great Michael. I like the color combo. I even like that pan color even though you commented about doing it silver. Looks fine black to me. We'll have to come up with an alternate name from 'Greenie'....maybe 'Bleenie'?:D
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:32 pm
by heathicus
wannabewoodworker wrote:Looking at your avatar Heath I noticed that I painted my motor pan the same color as the belt cover which kind of looks strange so I may have to pull the motor pan and paint it silver to get it looking more symetrical but other than that thanks for the kudos.
You do what you need to do, but I think it looks just fine!
Looking at the pictures again, in the third one it looks like the carriage is polished, but in the others it looks painted. So which is it?
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:41 pm
by mickyd
Did you post before shots Michael? I just looked and couldn't find any.
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:44 pm
by ------------------------
Looks great Michael!!!!
I would not change a thing, except the mitre guage which I think would be perfect stripped of all paint and left aluminum
Mark
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:49 pm
by wannabewoodworker
heathicus wrote:You do what you need to do, but I think it looks just fine!
Looking at the pictures again, in the third one it looks like the carriage is polished, but in the others it looks painted. So which is it?
I went and looked again and you are correct it does look polished but it is not. Painted the same hammered silver as the headstock.
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:52 pm
by wannabewoodworker
mickyd wrote:Did you post before shots Michael? I just looked and couldn't find any.
Micky,
I failed to take before shots but it was a dead ringer for your before shots maybe slightly worse. It came out super as far as i am concerned and I was assuming that it had a 3/4 HP motor but this thing absolutely screams at FAST speed. Sounds a lot faster than my Mark VII with 1 1/8 HP motor. I am pretty tickled with the outcome.
