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Does anyone make a glossy bat-top?
I don’t really want a clear one, I just want either black or white, but the Sanwa bats all have a matte texture.
There really isn’t any matte ball tops out there
@kedawa - As far as I know there are no gloss production bats. Some of the aluminum bats are shiny and some are more matte. That said, since this is the discussion about custom bats and balls, you could always sand down the bat and put some gloss clear on top. That should give you what you’re looking for.
@Darsakul - The aluminum balltops have a kind of matte finish.
I was referring to their bat-tops.
Bare aluminum bat tops don’t look matte, you can polish them however you want. You can get any top from PA and machine the anodized finish off and then polish it to perfection.
For plastic, you’d have to smooth any texture off it, then high grit sand, compound, and polish as well. You’d then have a high gloss plastic bat top.
A dull luster isn’t the same as matte. A matte finish is like the quality a military vehicle has for it’s non-reflective paint job
He wrote kind of, knowing it’s not the same. He’s right, they’re kind of matte, not really high gloss. Of course the proper term is luster, but semantics.
There is a thread here for that too. Courtesy of Darksakul about 15 posts back, I think: LED Battop?
I got a question that is inline with this thread. I want to custom paint a balltop to look like an 8 ball/george the bomb from skullgirls. I’m a fairly accomplished painter with a body of work in acrylics. I know that it would be an easy task to sand down a black JLF top for tooth and paint that but I hate the mold line on half way up the ball (it makes me cringe when touching it) and want something more sexy.
Question: how well will paint adhere to the mirror or aluminum balltops that Focus Attack sells?
First you have to sand off the existing coating on your aluminum ball or bat top, ALL OF IT. You want just bare metal when you are done.
Far as I know that means no mirror finish. Regardless you have to sand the piece any ways.
Just go with a plastic ball top and sand off that mold line.
You also have to use a primer regardless of materials. You want a primer that suitable for Aluminum if you going for a aluminum top.
Paradise used to have 8 ball tops. All sold out and long gone from the store.