Painting an Enclosure

[m3n4ce 0]

Ok, so my buddy does a real decent job at painting and can do pretty decent job at detailed pictures. So what i wanna know is how can i get this type of painting onto an enclosure. Its made with MDF wood 3/4" thick if that means anything. Now im also trying to figure out how to paint this wood so it will look smooth and as less like wood as possible, which means if that cant be done then the detailed painting may not work. Anyways what i want to know is what can i do to the surface, that wont ruin sound quality, that i can paint primer or whatever onto in order to do this paint job to it? im at a complete stop here so any links or anything will help me out at this point.

Thanks in advance.

[sadistic 13]

you can do it. it to hard to describe though.i try to find links after the description what they do is carpet 5 out of 6 faces of the box and the last face they paint but take a lot of prep and time to do it. that last face it is all bondo on the last face what i have seen is raised speaker rings in the center of a dado lip and they bondo out to the dado lip from the speaker rings in a dish shape. ya as you know bondo is smoother it is basically fiber glass then but on a mdf box i see if i can find a pic of some thing like it.

[m3n4ce 0]

Yeah thatd be great if you could find something for me. is bondo like that plastic layering they put over the wood? like most cabinets made of mdf have a plasticy surfer melted or something over top of them. Anyways be perfect if you could find something. i was hoping to just paint the entire enclosure but if it takes as much time to do one surface as you say then that'll work just fine to. Anyone else heard of ways to paint one so it looks good and not grainy and wood like lol?

[slim2fattycake 85]

I think the stuff on cabnets that you are talking about is veneer.

For my home theater box, I used a high gloss paint. it looks almost like a panio finish. Granted, I could have sanded it a little more between each coat and after but I wanted to hurry so its not perfect. I don't know if that would help you though. Good luck ont he bondo though.

[m3n4ce 0]

I think the stuff on cabnets that you are talking about is veneer.

For my home theater box, I used a high gloss paint. it looks almost like a panio finish. Granted, I could have sanded it a little more between each coat and after but I wanted to hurry so its not perfect. I don't know if that would help you though. Good luck ont he bondo though.

Actually thatd be perfect, you use anything special as primer or anything like that? and for the edges of the wood did you just knda sand down the caots till it matched the rest or was there anything special you had to do for the edges?

[slim2fattycake 85]

I used a router to round over all the edges and I used kilz primer.

[m3n4ce 0]

I used a router to round over all the edges and I used kilz primer.

is Kilz primer easy to find and what stuff do you normally use?

[slim2fattycake 85]

I got it at lowes. What do you mean what stuff I usually use?

[m3n4ce 0]

I got it at lowes. What do you mean what stuff I usually use?

I looked the primer up online or whatever and theres different variations of it or something. thats what i ment sry shoulda been more specific there lol.