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Summary: Here is a first for myself. I had a request from a friend online who I played Motor City Online with for a toilet seat. His request was a black seat with white, yellow and orange flames. I wanted to try something different and tribal flames are the latest thing everybody is doing now. Well this is my try, not the best but I wouldn't say too bad for the first time. Anyway this toilet seat is base-coated in jet-black paint and has tribal flames that fade from white to yellow to orange to a transparent candy red.
Summary: This is a sweet toilet seat. My favorite blue with the traditional flame look. This was for my sister and her boyfriend but I don't think it is ever going to be seen again. I was told it was burned with a pile of other trash when they moved out. That stinks, it will be missed.
Summary: Here's another seat made for someone for Christmas. My friend Mike's mom bought it for one of her friends. The reason the picture is so bad is because I took it with a crappy cheap camera and I tried fixing the picture the best I could. This one is marbleized in emerald green and the flames are done in red, orange and tipped in yellow.
Summary: Custom made for a friend named Crystal to give to her sister and sisters boyfriend for Christmas. It is base coated in black pearl with regular silver flames. This is a great toilet seat--flawless and nice flame job too. And next to the toilet seat you can see the happy customers!
Summary: This one sold for $20 and I had to do it in about a week but that wasn't enough time because the silver flames reacted with the dark blue base and the silver lifted really bad. I ended up sanding the silver flames and re-taping off the whole bottom and re-spraying the silver. But when I did that some over spray got on the dark blue and I messed it up a little by taking wax and grease remover to it. Also, you can see the line where I taped off the area that I sprayed the silver up close...but at least I got rid of most of the cracked paint!
Summary: This is a plain jet-black based toilet seat with dark blue flames that fade into Pearl Blue Metallic which is hardly recognizable that also fade into white tips. I made this for a friend and sold it for $25, but it wasn't my best one since I made it in about 4 days.
Summary: The above toilet seat is all on one toilet seat. This is the first one I've done both the underside and lid of the toilet seat. This took a few weeks to complete because of the time it took for the paints to dry before I could handle them. This one is in the hallway bathroom now which replaced the very first one I did a about a year and a half before because it got old really quick so I figured doing both sides of a toilet seat wouldn't get boring so quick. The front is a emerald green with a light gold metal flake in it and I marblized it with Saran Wrap. The flames are done in silver and fade into purple. The underside is done in the blue I love so much and the flames are just yellow that fade into orange.
Summary: Yes, yes, I just had to do it. I told myself I was going to make a feminine toilet seat in order to keep the ladies happy too! This is obviously nothing much, just purple on purple--but get this: This toilet seat was the FIRST ONE SOLD the weekend of the car show in Gettysburg!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sold for $25.
Summary: The above toilet seat is based on my first one I did in the fact that the flames are florescent orange and are checkered in dark blue which is not visible in this photo. It is base-coated in the Mirage paint by Dupicolor which changes from silver, to purple, to green which is it's main color. This is the only one that didn't sell in Gettysburg, but sold in Ohio to my fathers friend at a car show for $35.
Summary: Here is my next toilet seat on the little stand I made to sell all 5 of them in a custom car show up near Gettysburg, PA. This one is based in black with '50s style "scallops" done in red/orange/yellow. This one sold for $25 to a friend who has it in his room.
Summary: This personally is my favorite toilet seat I've done. It's base is metallic blue marblized with white/yellow/orange flames. You can sort of notice the marblizing effect in these pictures with the blue. I did that by spraying the blue, and while still wet, taking bubble wrap and laying it and removing it over and over till the whole toilet seat was done this way. I also used this process for my first custom painted toilet seat I ever did. I sold this at the custom car show in Gettysburg for $35 which was the highest priced one I sold.
Summary: This is the first toilet seat I did with my model enamel paints that I didn't run into problems with. This toilet seat is the third that was actually completed and again, the second that I did on my own. Nothing fancy really, just based in "Black Pearl" and the flames are "Transparent Candy Apple Red." This sold when I was in a custom car show in Gettysburg, PA for $20.
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Summary: Black 'n Blue Pearl basecoat with Silver flames that fade to black
The above toilet seat is my first one that I sold and the second one I made but the first one I made using model enamel paints. Confused? Hang in there...
I made this right before the Christmas of 2001 for a neighbor for a Christmas gift. I was sort of rushed because of starting the project late, and wasn't really pleased with how it turned out. The silver in the flames lifted and crinkled a little and I tried my best to fix it. Not sure what caused it, must be a silver thing. Live and learn!
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Summary: Purple Marblized base with metal flake. Florescent orange flames checkered in purple. The paint you see above it basecoat/clearcoat paint used on cars.
This toilet seat is the first one I made in the Summer of 2001 while working in a relative's body shop. I worked for Wes Haneke who owns and operates Hankeke's Restoration in Davidsonville, MD. Wes is the one I owe lots of credit to, he taught me a lot and gave me the confidence of painting my own car. After a few of Wes's customers saw the toilet seat, they told Wes that they wanted him to paint them one. It turns out he custom painted 2 toilet seats and sold them to the two customers for $70 each!! But this is using pretty expensive paints also and $70 is well worth every penny. This is the "starting point" of my custom painting days. As you see, the flames are kinda cheap looking, but this particular toilet seat is loaded with techniques.
The Painting process took 3 days. Again, I really gotta thank Wes for all his help and lending me the paints and materials needed to make that toilet seat. Thanks man!
So, spread the word and buy a Kustom Krapper! Email me if you're interested--I can make them pretty cheap now that I got all materials, even if you just wanted a plain toilet seat just painted a solid color to match your bathroom or hang it on your wall as a picture frame for your friend. Just gimmie a shout and we'll talk about what you're interested in.
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Above is the clipped pictures and prices from an M.I.C. (Master Image Customs) ad of two flamed toilet seats painted by them that I saw on the back of a magazine about in the winter of 2001, which is after I painted my first three toilet seats. Not to put down M.I.C. in anyway because they have the greatest customs out there and those toilet seats are really awesome, but I just wanted to show you the "Custom Painted Toilet Seat Market Prices." compared to mine.
I also saw a catalog called Genuine Hot Rod who are selling the ones you see above for $69.95. I've sold all mine for less than that so let me know your idea and we'll talk a price.
