12-06-2024, 02:28 PM
Craftmaster Coach Enamel is 100% not Cellulose they are two totally different things.
Historically early motors were probably largely painted with paints based on linseed oils. This was a continuation of the practice from carriage building days. Cars of course led to mass production and the requirements for faster drying products. Nitro Cellulose was the widely adopted answer, though faster drying enamels also existed (I am not sure what Model T's were painted with but they were sprayed). 2k followed as a faster drying, harder more resilient paint and was adopted before it was fully matured as a product but has over time also evolved.
What you have the option of today is largely compromised one way or another by the restriction on ingredients. Cellulose is a niche product which can only be sold for historic or specific industrial use and as such nearly every Cellulose on offer is not to automotive grade. Enamels (like Craftmaster) are Synthetic and have been for some time (the technology is over a century old). Oil based paints are nearly non existent.
There were once upon a time also version of Cellulose that would brush but these are long gone.
I run Craftmaster. We are very specialist in what we do, we don't compromise quality for price we just try to make the best possible product and the price follows on from that. There are cheaper products that work to varying degrees under varying brands but most aren't specialist, they are a rebadged product amended slightly usually from something industrial. Our Cellulose is to a true automotive grade.
I've heard tell many cars were sprayed with cellulose or something similar from the 20s, but refinishing shops would still be largely hand painted for many years to come. Looking at evidence and in discussion with others I believe that all run of the mill Austins would have been sprayed in house, but commercials would have left in primer for finishing elsewhere as liveries varied greatly with such users, it is likely many of these would have been hand painted.
Historically early motors were probably largely painted with paints based on linseed oils. This was a continuation of the practice from carriage building days. Cars of course led to mass production and the requirements for faster drying products. Nitro Cellulose was the widely adopted answer, though faster drying enamels also existed (I am not sure what Model T's were painted with but they were sprayed). 2k followed as a faster drying, harder more resilient paint and was adopted before it was fully matured as a product but has over time also evolved.
What you have the option of today is largely compromised one way or another by the restriction on ingredients. Cellulose is a niche product which can only be sold for historic or specific industrial use and as such nearly every Cellulose on offer is not to automotive grade. Enamels (like Craftmaster) are Synthetic and have been for some time (the technology is over a century old). Oil based paints are nearly non existent.
There were once upon a time also version of Cellulose that would brush but these are long gone.
I run Craftmaster. We are very specialist in what we do, we don't compromise quality for price we just try to make the best possible product and the price follows on from that. There are cheaper products that work to varying degrees under varying brands but most aren't specialist, they are a rebadged product amended slightly usually from something industrial. Our Cellulose is to a true automotive grade.
I've heard tell many cars were sprayed with cellulose or something similar from the 20s, but refinishing shops would still be largely hand painted for many years to come. Looking at evidence and in discussion with others I believe that all run of the mill Austins would have been sprayed in house, but commercials would have left in primer for finishing elsewhere as liveries varied greatly with such users, it is likely many of these would have been hand painted.