Thread: What colour is your machine?

I have a pink shaper

Phil
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I will be painting my bandsaw tomorrow. it will be Black (origanal colour was green, as I have a tin of black on the shelf. If I were to pick a colour it would be Blood Orange.

I *think* Blondie will be gloss or satin black, with cream inside the bed for better visibility. It just seems fitting for a machine that is fast approaching 100 years old. Looking at the small amounts of paint still on her i think she was, yes you guessed it, RAL 6011.....Otherwise i have a sea of green and shades of grey. The calming (so Rodm says) blue and cream should be leaving the shed soon.

Cheers,
Ew

Originally Posted by Ueee

I *think* Blondie will be gloss or satin black, with cream inside the bed for better visibility. It just seems fitting for a machine that is fast approaching 100 years old. Looking at the small amounts of paint still on her i think she was, yes you guessed it, RAL 6011.....Otherwise i have a sea of green and shades of grey. The calming (so Rodm says) blue and cream should be leaving the shed soon.

Cheers,
Ew

Got all shades here[colours]2 of the old drummonds are black and 2 green ln orig colours. mostly battle ship grey the others.,thought were to a mellow easy on the eyes and less prone to abuse and lots of workers lived in fairly basic drab living conditions. to come to work and face the same depressing colours day in day out humped over a machine must have some psychological affect on some of them.
Caterpillar Tractors were bright yellow and spose easy to see. easy to keep clean and if well tarted up the operators tended to be kind to a nice shiny machine than a grotty one. John. ps must say the green is a nicer look than grey horses for courses i suppose.
Ewan the mars here was Indian Red found it under tail stock as said before been made over once with a trailer blue hammertone[yuk] bit like 1960's kitchen make over. hammertone hides a lot of blemishes but looks better on trailers.

I've been accused of other things, so I guess some will accuse me of being unadventurous also. I happen to like the original factory colours of all my machines. The greys, greens and blue.

Not all my machines sported their original colours when I acquired them, some still don't. The Tough drill was mission brown, the Waldown, metal flake Granny Smith green and the Hercus mill was partially painted sky blue. Partially because the artist couldn't or couldn't be bothered painting the rear of the machine. In the eyes of the individuals who selected and applied these colours, I imagine they all thought they were improvements on the original factory finish. All these "improvements" share one thing in common, an absolute lack of skill in application. Brush marks, over painted fixings, runs and grit and hairs in the paint. Some blokes can't wait to get the lid off the can and a brush in their hand.

There was a link at the bottom of this thread leading to the antique machine and tool section of this forum. I followed it and read about Camoz's acquisition of a beautiful (obviously only to me) Wadkin disc and bobbin sander.
The first response was a plea to repaint the machine. Different strokes - https://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/w...4/#post1676295

BT

I should have added a "no posting without photo rule"...

Let's see these machines please
(one of the women in the office has decided that it is hilarious to announce in a loud voice to the office that some p'ography has arrived in the post for me and then hand me a tool catalogue - I wouldn't mind so much but it's not even the hard core stuff (machine tools) just hand tools!)

Michael

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

I've been accused of other things, so I guess some will accuse me of being unadventurous also. I happen to like the original factory colours of all my machines. The greys, greens and blue.

Not all my machines sported their original colours when I acquired them, some still don't. The Tough drill was mission brown, the Waldown, metal flake Granny Smith green and the Hercus mill was partially painted sky blue. Partially because the artist couldn't or couldn't be bothered painting the rear of the machine. In the eyes of the individuals who selected and applied these colours, I imagine they all thought they were improvements on the original factory finish. All these "improvements" share one thing in common, an absolute lack of skill in application. Brush marks, over painted fixings, runs and grit and hairs in the paint. Some blokes can't wait to get the lid off the can and a brush in their hand.

There was a link at the bottom of this thread leading to the antique machine and tool section of this forum. I followed it and read about Camoz's acquisition of a beautiful (obviously only to me) Wadkin disc and bobbin sander.
The first response was a plea to repaint the machine. Different strokes - https://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/w...4/#post1676295

BT

You are right paint don't make the ''wheels go round''. Am in agreeance with you all the way that some cant wait to stuff up with a quick jam job. I think some of it boils down to their indoor hrh 's [their majestys] being appeased in their mans quest for shed glitter by painting it real quick to justify why its not a new ref white dish washer.Paint [New seems to dazzle some women.]
Supportive women to our cause are few and far between [bit like Deckel mills],best way I find is mine is 6000 km away.Hope not too many ladies out there read this.. Well we makes our beds and we got to lie in them. John.

Originally Posted by Michael G

I should have added a "no posting without photo rule"...

Let's see these machines please
(one of the women in the office has decided that it is hilarious to announce in a loud voice to the office that some p'ography has arrived in the post for me and then hand me a tool catalogue - I wouldn't mind so much but it's not even the hard core stuff (machine tools) just hand tools!)

Michael

When the woman I work next to sees me looking at machine stuff on line she just says "looking at #### again Bob?". Her husband is a diesel fitter. She understands.

You blokes have seen enough of my Reseda Green and Maus Grey collection. More photos would be superfluous.

BT

I don't suppose blue and green count as interesting but….








Both these machines were originally reseda green and both had been repainted blue. The blue on the lathe I like. It's much like Waldown blue. The forest green on the shaper is not exactly what I had in mind but was the closest I could get off the shelf. I don't like it as much as I thought I would, but I sure ain't repainting it.

I'm not real fussy, but I can't relate to warm colours on machines for some reason. I've also decided I don't care for high gloss.

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

I've been accused of other things, so I guess some will accuse me of being unadventurous also. I happen to like the original factory colours of all my machines. The greys, greens and blue.

Not all my machines sported their original colours when I acquired them, some still don't. The Tough drill was mission brown, the Waldown, metal flake Granny Smith green and the Hercus mill was partially painted sky blue. Partially because the artist couldn't or couldn't be bothered painting the rear of the machine. In the eyes of the individuals who selected and applied these colours, I imagine they all thought they were improvements on the original factory finish. All these "improvements" share one thing in common, an absolute lack of skill in application. Brush marks, over painted fixings, runs and grit and hairs in the paint. Some blokes can't wait to get the lid off the can and a brush in their hand.

There was a link at the bottom of this thread leading to the antique machine and tool section of this forum. I followed it and read about Camoz's acquisition of a beautiful (obviously only to me) Wadkin disc and bobbin sander.
The first response was a plea to repaint the machine. Different strokes - https://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/w...4/#post1676295

BT

The impulse to paint for me comes from the same deep dark side that likes to periodically empty my tool box, clean it out, line up all the tools, wipe them down, sharpen/tune each one and then put everything back.

-J

I'm with BT regards photos. They are already available and you have already seen them Michael. You even saw my mill on the trailer going home. The shape under the tarp anyway.

My mill after 8 months is still the original off white. My new lathe is original green and the old Nuttall is mostly a very fetching shade of red/orange with the odd patch of grey. Original I think.

Phil, that shaper is RED.

Dean