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Raymond OReilly

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Any tips on how I can replicate the type of finish on the surface of my fire pit? Do I need special paint - or tool? 
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Helen Martell

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Look up ‘wood grain paint roller’. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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While I look up 'fire pit'.... what's a fire pit? 

Sylvia Evans

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Tis a shallow metal fire proof large bowl thing.You can BBQ on it also fill it with logs or coals and have a toasty fire to sit around and sing.. 

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Raymond OReilly

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Look up ‘wood grain paint roller’. 
Helen Martell on 08/05/2023 07:53:17
Thanks Helen. Should I use chalk paint? Is that what is on the pic? 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Chalk paint?  Again, what the hell is that?  If you want to create this look in paint, then use acrylic or oil, or gouache, and use a common or garden kitchen fork to scribe into it; or a painting knife; or a palette knife - any of those would work, after a fashion.  Come to that, even the handle end of a brush could work - or finger-nails, if you don't mind the effect on your cuticles.  Or use a colour-shaper, these days mainly sold for work in pastels.  Try painting on any surface you'd like to with a range of materials until you get what you want.   This isn't particularly difficult to do - if you want to, experiment will get you there.  
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Tis a shallow metal fire proof large bowl thing.You can BBQ on it also fill it with logs or coals and have a toasty fire to sit around and sing.. 
Sylvia Evans on 08/05/2023 13:54:13
Hmm.  If there's one thing I hate, it's a barbecue - salmonella-rich sausages, dogs snaffling, grease everywhere, horrid tinnies in evidence, full of camel's urine.  I was better off not knowing.   But I'd love to know what 'chalk paint' is supposed to be when it's at home: I have a feeling that we're being toyed with here, frankly!

Sylvia Evans

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Robert if you read the comment I made re fire pit it will enlighten you.  Or that is what I call a fire pit.  Chalk paint ??? I have not a clue.  Please enlighten us old fogeys someone. Also like you sweet Robert I would paint the wood grain as you would,  but pity help my cuticles if I scraped so far. To me that is what painting is all about seeing something and working out how to represent it in paint. .We had a wonderful  painter on here I expect her gallery is still there for the looking.Avie  Soldani   her wood and rust in her paintings is beautiful.   Please can someone explain " Chalk Paint" thank you in advance.

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Yes, Slyvia, we've covered fire pit, or you have.  We now need to work on 'chalk paint'.  Now - you are an older woman than I .... no, hang on; something wrong there..... leave me to work on that one ..... and if anyone has encountered chalk paint, it's likely to be you, given you've been around since before Michaelangelo (no offence...).   But if you've heard of chalk paint, I'm damned around the corner with a bent banana if I have, and thus I suspect we're being led on a merry dance by one of fluid morals and a keen sense of mischief.   Of course, I may be wrong: which is not for one second to suppose that I shall apologize for it if I am.  But I suspect there is dirty work at the crossroads here, since if anyone were seriously in doubt about the efficacy of techniques, they just try them on a bit of spare material.  I am not, in short, convinced that this was a genuine inquiry, but rather an attempt to cause us all to look even more foolish than we can look unaided. 

Sylvia Evans

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Hopefully that is rhe Royal we Robert.  From an older woman....
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Collette Hughes

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Chalk paint: look up Annie Sloan, it's used for furniture, arts and crafts.  I did some kitchen units with it once, a friend asked if I was going to give it another coat. I said it is supposed to look distressed. He said, distressed! it looks like it's breaking its heart. 
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Tony Auffret

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Why would you paint a fire pit?  Doesn’t the heat burn it off or turn it a less than interesting shade of dark?
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