"Vintage" CDI

mekano · #1 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 06:59 PM

Hello!
40 min ago I started to make my vintage looking CDI by covering it in leather, glueing it to the CDI with Shellack (stuff used to cover marks from branches in wood before you paint it).

Here is one pic from the progress, I have glued the leather to the CDI with Shellack and then painted over the leather with the same stuff, it will make the leather darker but very glossy. The other pic shows the leather before covered in Shellack:

**Bikeguy Joe** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 07:02 PM

The imagination never stops.
That is cool as heck.

scabz24 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 09:28 PM

very cool indeeeeeed!

mekano · #4 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 05:42 PM

Here is the finished "Vintage" CDI!
Ask for "Shellack" in paint/hardware store. Mine was an alcohol/shellack mix, ready to use. Shellack was the material for making old records way back, it has also been used as an main ingredient in ol' car paint etc.