How to Spray HVLP for Woodworkers

In this video I show you how to make a DIY spray booth for under $50. Check the video I just released about how to spray HVLP. Thanks for watching! Please like, comment and subscribe. Cheers!
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[katzmosestools]

For the compressor you want to try and match the min CFM. Remember at 10 psi the CFM goes up on your compressor more than you think. Don't waste your money see my link.

[TrevorDennis]

My wife and I spent well over an hour hand painting one side of an 1800mm X 1200mm garden trellis yesterday. We have four panels to do, and with two coats that works out to at least 16 hours of back ache (from leaning over to reach the centre) and the finish is not flash because it is so hard to avoid drips. This morning it suddenly clicked that I have a 3hp 50 litre compressor in my shop and easily enough airline to reach outside, so no need to pay a lot of money for an electric spray gun. It was a big bonus finding this video on my favourite woodworking channel. Plus I'll be able to spray paint finish on my projects.

Today keeps getting better. While I was typing this comment a courier turned up with the Kreg router table insert and supports I'd ordered from Amazon. We heard last week that the USPS was stopping post to New Zealand and some other countries because of the lack of transportation, so I was worried that my router cabinet rebuild was going to be put on hold. I originally built the table top with laminated kitchen worktop that revealed itself as nasty chipboard when I cut out the hole for the insert. It was full of voids and socked up finish like a bottomless pit. Since then I have discovered Acacia hardwood benchtop which is solid and I can double thickness it for a 52mm solid hardwood top. I made the original insert out of 10mm actetal plastic which whilee being the stiffest of the machinable plastics, still distorted when tightened, so this time I am using the Kreg insert which I have a lot of experience with. So I am a happy camper right now. If only it would stop raining. :-(

[mattrosich]

You deserve a YouTube award for best video on how to paint with HvLP gun. Thank you for this. Super informative. To the point. No nonsense. Great job. Thank you again. Couldn’t ask for more. I’ve never left a comment like this b4 but you deserve these words and much more

[jerryrichards]

me. A professional finisher it's fun watching you guys suiting up.
I like the pop up shade roof you utilized nice idea.

[johnawhiting]

Thanks Jonathan. I am proficient with Syphon feed spraying, but wanted to get into HVLP for a while now. Thanks so much for giving me some basic direction. God Bless U and Yours.

[wemoodydc]

What a great overview. Maybe the best I have been able to fine all over YouTube. Thank you for taking the time to make this!

[cseliman]

Anyway you can talk about air compressor as well please. What type, how big and what to know about it in order to have a good quality finish for furniture. Thanks

[stephengrube]

Complete newby here. I'm scared to death of spraying the finish coat on the hull of my little sailboat that I have worked on so hard. God knows I've watched dozens of videos on this topic, trying to decide how best to achieve a smooth, shiny finish on my hull. This video is the best one, by far. Thanks for your enthusiasm, directness, humor and for taking the mystery out of the process of using an HVLP spray system! Well done!.

[hiseminencetheholymacdiarmada]

I think it would be worthy of note to mention that as you widen the fan, the material coverage will be less. So as you widen (or narrow) you fan size, double check your material coverage.

[princeekow]

am a beginner sprayer this video really help me a lot my boss even think am a pro sprayer thanks once again

[Boliodog]

Good demo I’m building a couple of coffee tables and I’ll finish them with an oil based finish wait a few weeks and spray the tops with lacker

[jplieurance]

Thanks for taking the mystery out of it. Never done it before, so doesn't look as daunting now.

[SweetSillyFun]

Great timing on this. 2 quick questions / clarifications:
1. Can you use regular latex paints in these sprayers? If so, mixing recommendations?
2. Will a 6 gallon pancake compressor work?

[bobmartin]

Love the old Chevy Pickup in the background!!!

[perryharrison]

I love hvlp I use the Devilbiss that takes a zip lock bag inside the cup so you can spray in all directions and never have your gun skip from losing suction plus clean up is easier

[olfarmer]

Just got into spraying, this video is perfect. Thanks guys 👍🏻

[tchevrier]

I've only used a sprayer a couple of times, but a couple of things I noticed. First don't spray it in the garage. Everything gets coated in a fine dust. Second, don't use it for finishes such as stain that need to penetrate the wood.

[Metalbass]

New to your channel today, some really good stuff.

My wife and I started a business in our home recently, as I was forced to take an extended leave from my profession, manufacturing process engineering, and production, management, and I am not the type of person to just sit on the couch doing nothing.

So, we combined my prior experiences, with my education, and a particular passion of mine, music and musical instruments, with my wife's passion for art and color, as well as her work experience dealing with customers and the public, and we are building handmade, custom, electric guitars and basses.

We are at the point now where we are looking at options for improving our finishing methods, and are looking for information regarding the differences, the pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses, in comparing HVLP with LVLP systems. We only have a small compressor and we are only finishing, at most, 3 instruments at a time, often just one instrument.

We build all of our instruments using only high quality exotic and domestic hard woods, tone woods, many of them being highly figured pieces of these woods.

So we will almost never be using paint, and opaque coloring, covering up these extremely beautiful, and extremely valuable, pieces. Applications of stains, dies, or other pigments for coloring, will usually be done by hand, or with a small airbrush kit that we have. The HVLP or LVLP system would be almost exclusively used for finishing of the instruments, like an application of a poly, a lacquer, etc.

Any advice, Insight, or information, would be greatly appreciated!

Thank You

[maxwellspeedwell]

May need to give an HVLP a try. I've always used airless... yes, really. Hot lacquer, pneumatic stirring on a 55 gallon drum. Of course we would turn out a high volume of cabinet, church trim....

[dtshomesteadproduce]

Thank you for this video we plan on painting the outside of our woodshed chicken coop. We purchased the aeropro 9 piece spray gun kit👍🏾💕💕💕👍🏾