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Painted saw blades are a keen manner to make decorative and rustic art. Many artists paint decorative landscapes, but you can pigment whatever you'd like on your saw bract. After cleaning the blade, you can utilize either acrylics or oils to brand a new piece of art that'due south certain to be a conversation piece!

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    Remove any rust with sandpaper or steel wool. Use a 300-grit sandpaper or a pad of steel wool and piece of work across the blade in small circles. Apply a firm force per unit area to scrub the blade, so as to completely remove the rust.

    • For extra tough spots or oil on the blade, utilize a small amount of dish detergent along with your scouring pad to fight through the grease.
    • Consider wearing center and mouth protection to go along yourself safe from rust particles.

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    Spray the saw blade with a coat of metallic primer. Use the primer with a make clean cloth in a sparse layer across the surface of the blade. Wipe off any excess primer that pools upwardly on the surface. Allow the primer dry for at to the lowest degree xv minutes before continuing.[i]

    • Metal primer can exist purchased at your local hardware store.
    • Primer not just protects the saw bract from rust, simply it also helps paint stick better.

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    Encompass the bract with black or white acrylic paints as a base coat. Employ a wide paintbrush or spray paint to coat the surface of the saw blade. Work from left to right on the saw bract. Permit it dry completely before applying a second coat in the opposite direction.[two]

    • The underlayer colour depends on what colors you desire to paint the saw bract. Use white for lighter colors and black for darker colors.

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    Draw your design on the saw bract. Use a soft pencil to draw the designs that you want to paint. If you painted your underlayer black, apply a white charcoal pencil to make your marks.[3]

    • Don't make your drawings too detailed since you're going to pigment over them. Instead, brand a loose sketch of the chief shapes and forms.

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    Set the blade on a scrap piece of woods or paper. Prepare the saw bract in the middle of the canvass so paint doesn't become on another surface. When you lift the saw blade off the sail, the edges will look bully and make clean.[4]

    • Clamp the saw blade in an easel if you lot have access to one.
    • Be conscientious when you handle the saw blade so you lot don't accidentally cut yourself.

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    Use acrylic paints for a fast-drying medium. Acrylic paints tend to dry between fifteen minutes and an 60 minutes. Cull a variety of colors along with blackness and white and so you are able to mix dissimilar values. If you work apace with paints, acrylics may exist the right selection for you lot.[5]

    • Paintbrushes you apply with acrylics can be cleaned easily with water, but they need to be cleaned inside 10 minutes of using them.
    • Acrylics tend to exist less expensive than oil paints.

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    Paint with oils if you want a longer working time. Choose oil paints if you piece of work slowly and desire more command over when you can mix colors. Depending on the humidity in the area you paint, oil paints could take up to a week to completely dry.[6]

    • Make sure to piece of work in a well-ventilated area when working with oil paints.
    • Brushes used with oil demand to exist cleaned with mineral spirits or turpentine.

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    Start with the background and work towards the foreground. Work from light colors to darker shades. Go along your background hazy then information technology looks like it'southward in the distance. Every bit you paint closer to the foreground, outset to add more details to your painting. [vii]

    • Work with complementary color schemes, like orange and blue, yellow and majestic, and blood-red and light-green.

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    Let the paint dry out completely. Leave your saw bract in a safe, dry place until it completely dries. If you used acrylic, exit information technology to dry out for 1 day. When you use oils, leave it to dry out for at least 1 calendar week.[8]

    • Exam a minor, unnoticeable expanse with a toothpick to run across if the pigment is dry.

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    Spray a UV-protectant varnish over the paint. Spray a thin layer of the varnish onto the saw'southward surface. A UV-resistant varnish will help protect your painting from the sun past reflecting the lite and preserve the colors.

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    Hang your art on the wall securely. Use a stud finder to a secure place to hang your saw bract. Drive a smash into the wall with a hammer so 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) sticks out. Hang the saw blade and then the nail goes through the hole in the middle.[9]

    • Put the blade high enough then that children tin can't accomplish it.
    • Saw blades tin can exist hung inside or outdoors.

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  • Be careful handling your saw blade so you don't cutting yourself.

  • Piece of work in a well-ventilated area if you work with oil paints.

  • Go on the saw blade out of the reach of children.

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Things You'll Need

  • Sandpaper or steel wool
  • Dish detergent
  • Metallic primer
  • Paintbrushes
  • Acrylic or oil paints
  • Bit forest or paper
  • Stud finder
  • Nails
  • Hammer

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