first powder coated yoyo attempt

[Narced]

I've put a powder coat on just about anything you can think of from 15' high and 20' long I beam structures and giant spiraling staircases to tiny needles used for micro eye surgery, these have to be  micro measured to  perfection. I love reading on here how powder coating can't be evenly distributed..just saying.
 Anyway, I put my first coat on a yoyo today just to do it and thought I would share some pics.  The yoyo is just a cheap  magic yoyo, magistrate.  I used chevy orange, my favorite color with a metallic clear coat.  It's not a grinding yoyo, that's for sure!  I do however have other powders that I think would be cohesive with grinding I think, seems like they would be anyway?  The clear coat on this one is what really keeps it from doing anything like that, but I didn't coat this one so I could grind, I coated it cause I liked the color. 
Anyway, here are some pics..........

what I started with,
 

After a bead blast, I chose to bead blast instead of sandblasting cause my beadblast shoots at 65 psi and my sandblast shoots at 125 psi.


prepped up and ready to hang.


chosen color


as powder


final product. Sorry, Iphone camera not great, I know


another angle


last...me after coating a huge electric box blue for a paper printing press


I do all the coating with a gun by hand not on an assembly line like most places do it.  The end product has much better quality control.  Uses much more powder but worth it if you want quality. Thanks for looking!

[icthus]

Having experience in this even and vibe mean two different things. The thicker the powder the more apt it is to run. I am glad to see someone having some luck with it.

[--Paul]

Nice 

[need-a-bow]

I'll assume that you won't be doing this for any other people's yoyos but awesome. I really like that color. And I guess you might have more experience than most guys who do stuff like this combined on here. I can't wait for your next project

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You bring up a great point icthus, I use more powder than an assembly line be because I use a gun by hand, most the powder lands on the floor tho. Lots of waste.  The powder that sticks to the yoyo is as minimal as I can get tho.  You do bring up a good point. The next one I do or since I don't really have many throws and even less I want to strip and powder, I might just strip that one down and try it again only this time I'll weigh it before and after the powder.  I've had a few things run but that's usually with and epoxy primer I have to put on thick, handrails mainly.
Thanks Paul!
I'm not real comfortable taking anyone's throws (as of now) till I do this a few more times. Possibly I can do one for ya in the future if you have one that is a cheapy that I could practice on. Trust when I say that you'd be happy with the final product cause there is no way I'd return it till it was perfect.  That would be later down the road. I'm going to test with a lightly textured powder to see if I can't get it to grind any. I have a few powders in mind that I thInk might work okay, they're just not that pretty.  One is just a matte black texture. It looked and felt great on a jeep bumper and skid plate I just did, just not too sure about a yoyo.  If or when I feel comftorable you can send me one,need a bow, and I'll do it for the price of just shipping it to and from me. 
 I recently quit my 10 year diving career to go back to school for nursing. It's time to be home with the wife and kids more and the process is breaking my wallet. Not to mention having another baby on the way!