Unfortunately Sweets paint is pretty prone to paint chip. I feel like since they switched to cushion clear it's been just the luck of the draw when it comes to how well the paint will hold up (also climate and type of wood). For example, my maple tamas with cushion clear are holding up very well but my beech tama is doing pretty poorly. Yea aesthetically it starts to look bad but for me personally I could care less. If at least the grip/tack is there, then I'm fine with it (cause that's really the true strength of cushion clear). So to answer your question yes, it is normal so at this point just keep on slayin it.
guess it depends how long you've been playing it for? paint chips its a fact, but i mean if thats the first spike you did maybe a bit of an issue though to me not worth mentioning even if it was
Hello guys.. Paint chipping is something that i have been very interested in reducing in our kendamas.. I posted a video on my instagram timeline of a custom tamas which I painted and gabe to a 6 year old boy with no kendama experience whatsoever... So he beat the hell out of it as expected and it was interesting for us to see the results after a number of months playing.. They were almost no chips to our paint work.. I would like to share it with you guys if I am allowed...don't want this to be a shout out for my small ken company...so maybe a mod can check that for me of I can post our work on here... We are a small custom company AuraKendama and I have over 20 years painting experience graduating from some of London's top art school... We did many trials and tests to get a nice durable surface on the top gloss tacky layers... Then after good feedback we now started out business a few months ago and have very positive feedback from our early customers... Please let me know if we can share our durable paint video.., Aura
Keep in mind, you're hitting two pieces of wood into eachother, the paint is gonna take some damage! Mugens chipped, but that didn't stop them from being some of the best damas made
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Thanks Alex for that clarity I thought that it would look like some blatent advertising and that is why i asked you directly by message if I could ...I think that there was relevance in a durable paint coating discussion and as i persoanlly think this is an important decision when considering a purchase of a product.. It was not a direct advertisement for our products ,it was giving the thread creator an insight to what else there is on the market...as I am sure that sweets is world wide know about and people will not even think twice about trying another smaller custom company out for the reason that the bigger players dominate the market... I would like to contribute to things I understand about and painting is one of them as in have over 20 years fine art practise..so if I see a post about paint durability then I would like to share my knowledge which I apply to our kens...I fully understand what you wrote and thank you for your time ..and my sons like the pills which we bought from you....regards Aura
When almost isn't good enough, it also doesn't count, and your paint starts to chip… Kaizen 2.0 maple red/blue split
Yeah I would say this is totally not normal chipping. It's one thing if you get a chip here and there but those look like fairly large chips. Considering there isn't a lot of wear around the bevel I would definitely say they probably added the paint on before the primer was completely set up, or the moisture was high in the wood itself or the shop. I do have to ask though, have you tried just getting an Aura kendama?
Hi i am an practising artist for over for over 20 years and from this knowledge i have really tried to achieve a more durable finished paintwork Most of it was due to my sons playing and me having to buy them kendamas more often due to the paint not lasting for so long on other products so mys sons said to me why dont you paint some tamas for us dad... and then i started to do many tests with different products to try and get the durability up from what i was purchasing from shops... paint is not totally impenetrable but i think that companies should research more into it.. i dont want to pump up my work in anyway or put down another company but the consumer who is paying hard earned money should have some quality feedback on what is available out there - like what amazon have for every product a feedback so others can see what is a reliable product... my son was given for Christmas a European companies kendama which the bottom white Paint chipped off completely under a week and this is probably the best know company in Europe... he was not happy and as a customer that should be reflected out there for others to know before considering a purchase..
I have a sweets prime with cush clear and i'm starting to see some of the clear coat start to peel up around the tama hole edges. Is this supposed to happen? I also have a kendama usa padauk kaizen with a purple silk tama and its developing white lines on the tama and theres is also some of the tama showing bare through the paint. Has this happened to anyone else with a silk paint tama?