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Is rinsing done before or after application?

Hi All, I've made a set of railings that I got galvanised and subsequently treated with t wash/mordant solution. I painted it on, left it to dry, and it finished up with the really nice grey finish. After fitting them, and a day in the rain, a white powder coating has developed on top of the grey finish. This has only developed where the rain has landed on the railings, or where water has run down. You can see this in this image The coating can be cleaned off with a wire wheel, but I don't want to go through all that effort if this is going to happen again the very next time it rains. Have I done something wrong in my application? or missed a step? Thanks in advance for any help and advice!

The sound in my shop is awful, it's just fan whine, so I can't really use the audio I capture with the video. So this is me leaning into that fact. I'm also not aiming for a a hard tutorial style of video, more a entertainment watch me make the thing kind of video.

Simple one for starters, just making a bottle opener. What do you all think of it?

I got the pieces sandblasted in the end! I posted the finished piece so you can see what I was dealing with and to sate any curiosity. Thanks for all the help and suggestions!

I recently posted a question about cleaning complicated pieces, and I've now finished the project in question so I figured I'd post it: https://imgur.com/a/azARw The top is a 35mm thick slab of oak, the table is 50cm tall in total. The grey on the legs is the sand blasted finish, which I've waxed.

Thanks for the relies! Sand blasting was my go-to thought, but I was wondering if there were any other methods that I'd overlooked. I think anything that involves brushing is a no go as there are just too many places that I cant get to.

I've got some pieces that I've just finished and need cleaning, but they all curvy and full of nooks and crannies that I'll never get a wire wheel into in a million years. How do I go about cleaning stuff like this?

Thanks, I'm glad you all like it. My local hardware store had run out of black undercoat and only had the bright red left. I couldn't be bothered to drive anywhere else so red it was!

This is one of my most recently finished projects. It was fun to make, although I had some trouble working with the sheet metal. Any tips/advice or reading material anyone can recommend would be very much appreciated. http://imgur.com/a/Qiswz

Thanks for the kind comments everyone! Thanks! The shovel is brass. I had a couple of small sheets hanging around so I thought I'd put them to use. For the brush, I just bought a wooden hand brush from my local hardware shop and chopped the handle off.

Here is a fire set I just finished for a customer. They were very happy with it and so was I! http://imgur.com/a/ZLUpZ

Just finished this project for some clients. It was very fiddly and a terror to get flat and level, but well worth it in the end. They were very pleased with it, and so am I! They are going to get a piece of glass to top it with. http://imgur.com/a/fcBr7

I spent about a week designing and prototyping until I was happy with them. This is the result:

In my filing system, it would fall under the category of "cool looking thing".

Thanks Dognose (great name and pic btw)! The wood on the wall is left behind from the old rails that my work was replacing. Consequently it was already in the correct positions and the wall underneath is extremely uneven and made of very hard rocks (granite I think). Drilling into them would have been a pain. It just saved an awful lot of work and the client was perfectly happy with it like that. I think she is going to paint it though as she is in the middle of a lot of work on the house and garden. For the stair rails, I dug them in about 30cm (1ft) and secured them with post-crete. They are good and solid, not going anywhere for a long time hopefully. The finish is a custom mixed carbon-laced paint that polishes up to a metallic shine in a way that highlights hammer marks and other detail, preserving the hand forged look. This was very important to the client and it took me a while to find something that would do the job nicely.

A client asked me to make them some garden rails to replace the old worn out ones that were currently in their garden. As with almost every project this one presented some new learning experiences and challenges. I had a lot of fun doing it. http://imgur.com/a/TGDwR

These followed me home: http://imgur.com/a/yD2fx They are about 1.5m tall and the base plates are solid steel about 40mm thick. The box section is pretty thick as well, about 8mm or so. Found them at my local scrap yard, got them for £10 (~$15) each. I'm collecting materials to make a junkyard power hammer so I'm going to use one of them as the central pillar for that, and I'm going to turn the other one into a stand for a leg vise I acquired a few years ago.

Hi all, I'm in the middle of a project that will be going outside so I want to finish it with graphite paint. Now, I've never used it before so I was wondering if anybody could give me a bit of advice on correct usage. Also I seem to have run into a problem getting it. I don't know if I'm just looking for the wrong things in shops or they simply don't have it. If anyone has links to places that sell it that would be awesome as well (I live in the UK). Many thanks in advance.

I've been trying to work out how to make a d20. I think I need to read a geometry book or something. In the meantime I did a test roll to see what it sounds and feels like. Check it out:

I had to have a go at this, being a bit of a tabletop rpg fan. Here's my first try, but needs some refinements I think. http://imgur.com/ZXaK0qW

I tried my hand at making a smithing video. I recorded myself making an interesting poker and cut the film together. How did I do? Both with the video and the end result?

I saw a picture of this, and thought it would be a good test of my abilities. The resulting object is extremely pleasing, and has some M C Escher qualities to it. It's really fun to look at it from different angles and roll it around. The very same qualities that made it extremely difficult to photograph properly! What do you guys and/or gals think? http://imgur.com/a/Zf3YP

Thanks for all the kind words! It means a lot coming from fellow smiths. Time to answer some questions. I definitely need to get an O/A setup, it's at the top of my 'Things to buy' list. A list which is getting distressingly long :P. I'm pretty satisfied with payment I got for the piece. I could have done it quicker I think, but I was taking everything nice and slow because I was straying into completely unfamiliar territory and didn't want to make any mistakes. Still can't believe I did that! There was much swearing that day. It actually ended up being easier to fix than I thought it would be.

That's a really cool idea. I may have to steal it.