Hi Terry- I use flourescent lighting overhead, but about 70% of the tubes are full-spectrum light, giving a very balanced tone, good color rendering, and greater overall brightness. They are pricey, but last a long time and make for a much more pleasant and useful shop environment. At the spray table, I have 'raking' light to illuminate the spray surface. I use two floods horizontal to the surface, and maybe a foot or two higher, both coming in from the left side. If you play around with the angles you should be able to find a good setting. Mark Potter bases-loaded@juno.com On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:50:58 -0500 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> writes: > Terry, > I heard that fluorescent was the worst to use for refinishing. > Direct > incandescent seems the way to go although the older my eyes get the > more I like > halogen or mercury vapor. Millions of watts eh? > > Greg > > Farrell wrote: > > > I'm in the midst of yet another stab at piano refinishing. I seem > to have > > trouble seeing how much finish is going on the targeted surface > (the big > > runs appear to be a good indicator of too much going on). I have > very good > > overhead flourescent lighting, but no mid-level or low lighting. > If I am > > looking upwards at a surface, it is generally easy to see. But > looking > > straight on or down at the targeted surface it becomes difficult > to see the > > finish going on. Spraying on black.....er, a, oh, that's right, > > pianos....ebony, it is fairly easy to see the finish going on, but > on a > > natural (red/brown) stain finish when spraying clearcoats, it is > tough to > > see. > > > > Anyone have any handy lighting tricks that work well. Maybe > someone could > > shed some light on this? (Ah, Jeeez, that was bad, wasn't it?) > > > > Terry Farrell > > Piano Tuning & Service > > Tampa, Florida > > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > -- > Greg Newell > Greg's Piano Forté > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >
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