[kiwi_steve]

Thanks Henry and Joe... its a little bit on the back burner at the moment... I'm really busy at work and have been moving family stuff to here from about 6 hours drive away most weekends and just haven't had time to devote to it.

I'd love some feedback on the cabinet - I'm not entirely sure what to do with it to get it looking spot on. The lacquer I had mixed up for the chassis is some automotive stuff - and they do have brown tones. From the experience of spraying the gold onto the chassis I can see that it starts out quite seethrough with the first coat - I'm wondering if a brown coloured automotive NC lacquer would be suitable for a timber cabinet and if I could use different numbers of coats to get the stepped tones? I wish we could get mohawk here... but there is pretty much nothing in toned spray lacquers that I've been able to find. The cans are $36 + tax each so I don't really want to spring for one if its not going to work - but I will if there is a good chance it will. I might try hitting some plywood with some shellac and then the gold just to see what the adhesion is like.

Cheers

Steve