Has anybody tried marbling with threadmaster finish? Any suggestions?

Yes... I just did a marblizing job with Threadmaster. I was very pleased with how well it worked!

Because it is thicker than LS Supreme (what I usually use) it marbles better in my opinion. The swirls will stay put much better and not bleed into the other colors.

With LS Supreme, I used to have to wait for the finish to thicken up a bit in order to get good definition and prevent bleeding.

Have at it...

Erik

I just finished a 6" marble with TM and got the same results that Eric did. It is definately now my finish of choice


Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

Just ask Putter, he will marble any thing LOL

I had a conversation with Putter at the show in Charlotte about marbling with different finishes. At that point in time, Putter hadn't tried Thread Master for marbling. I've been using LS Supreme and had the same experience as Mike and Erik. What Putter and I had talked about was the possible effects that may be possible with differing flow rates by blending different epoxies. In other words if you wanted your contrasting colors well mixed, you may want to use TM as your base color because of different viscosity and then apply LS Supreme for the contrasting colors because it's thinner, at least when it's first mixed - or you could do the opposite.

I haven't had the time since Charlotte to do any experimentation but someone else here may want to give it a try. If Putter has I'm sure he'll chime in.

I picked up some Thread Master from Andy at the show and used it for the first time over the weekend. I can tell you that my initial response is that this is an excellent product and I'm very impressed with it. I'll probably need to work with it a little more to get as comfortable with it as LS Supreme but it gave me a very clear, level finish and I had no trouble with bubbles at all.

Sam... good point about using epoxies with different viscosities to achieve different marblized appearances. There's lots that you could do to mix it up there.

My last marblizing job I simply used solid color thread wrap as the base color, applied a coat of finish to seal the threads, then did a layer of marblzed finish on top of that, and a third clear coat of finish over that. Worked great. I like the effects that you can achieve by marbling colors into a clear coat of finish over a darker background color. It gives a bit of a 3D quality to it.

Also, using thread as the background color gets you out of having to mix pigments in order to get the color you're looking for if the color is available in thread. The trim wraps will match the marblized background color perfectly.

I've also done this with where I did a first layer of marblizing and added a second layer of mablizing into clear epoxy to give it some depth and more definition. Worked great.