Every club has some old, dusty bowls they have collected over the years. They get used by new bowlers and visitors when trying out the sport or just sit on a shelf cause they are old, worn out and the colour has faded. This video will show you how to take those well-used bowls with worn and chipped paint and breath new life into them!
Cleaning and Painting your Lawn Bowls
PREPARATION
Get your workspace prepared and gather together the following items to help you do the job right;
- a sheet of plastic or paper to cover your work surface
- tape for securing the plastic or paper to your work surface
- paint thinner
- a roll of Paper towels (Pre-cut or pre-tear several sheets of paper towels into 2” x 2” squares)
- a pair of scissors
- a thin, pointy, sharp tool for cleaning grooves
- small thin paintbrush(es)
- rubber gloves (oil-based paints require paint thinner to remove from your skin, use rubber gloves to cut down on cleanup and using chemicals on your skin. Oil-based paints can make for a difficult clean up)
- oil-based paints in the colours you’d like to use to paint your bowls (NOTE: because we were painting some 50 sets of bowls, we purchased a quart of Red, Blue, Yellow and white paints and combined them in baby food jars to create a full-colour wheel of colour options)
Step 2:
Put in your rubber gloves. Why get your hands dirty when you don’t have to.
Step 3:
Clean your bowls by removing the remaining old paint and dirt by carefully scraping out the groves and logos on both sides of your bowls with a strong pointy tool.
HINT: I also found it handy to use the blade of one side of a pair of scissors to scrape the outside of the bowl to remove imperfections like spots of dirt and hardened flecks of paint.
Step 4:
Paint one side of each bowl by starting in the middle of your bowl and working your way outward. This will make it easier as you progress with painting additional colours.
Step 5:
Don’t be afraid to use dozens of pieces of dry paper towel to remove excess paint gradually from each bowl for each colour that you apply.
When wiping off the excess paint with a dry paper towel, be sure to do it in a way that you don’t push it into grooves where you don’t want the paint to go. If you do, it can make it difficult to remove before painting additional colours.
As you continue to paint outward from the centre, be sure to swipe slightly outward to pull the paint away from previously painted areas. We don’t want you to mess up the previous paintwork and have to stop to fix it. It makes for some difficultly when this happens. We’d like you to avoid this problem.
Step 6:
When removing the excess paint from your bowls, there will be some residue left behind. We find that a lightly dampened piece of paper towel with a paint thinner works magic to remove any remaining unwanted paint.
Be sure not to soak the paper towel with too much paint thinner because it can bleed into painted and unpainted grooves and spoil existing paintwork or thin out paint that you apply soon thereafter.
Step 7:
Once your four bowls have been completely painted on one side as intended, set them aside and let it dry overnight. This way you’ll give the paint on your bowls sufficient time to dry before painting the other side of your bowl without spoiling your previous work.
Paint all four of your bowls identically before calling it a day.
Step 8:
Paint the opposite sides of your four bowls with the same colour scheme as you did the first side from the previous day.
Once the second sides of your bowls have been completed, set them aside and let them dry overnight.
Step 9:
Admire your handiwork and be prepared for questions from other members when they notice your bright new paint job.
Great work and Happy bowling!
Video compliments of Cary Lucier - Windsor Lawn Bowling Club, Canada
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