Thread: Aw PISS!!!

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just have to vent...

Last night was putting finishing touches on my "daisy" tombstone and went a little heavy with some of the tea staining. Watered it down and thinned it and decided to take the trusty heat gun to dry it off. Distracted by compliments from my wifey and daughter, the heat gun stayed in the same spot for a bit too long and melted a huge friggin hole (about 2"" long and 3/4" wide) in the top left corner of the sucker!!!

Now I need to recoat the whole area with my grout/thinset combo, let that dry for 12 hours...coat AGAIN!!! let that dry for 12 hours and then restart the tea staining process!!!

friggin PISSED!!!

once again thank you all fro letting me vent.

dK

Sounds like somehting i would do..Maybe lock the wifey and daughter out next time so no distractions..lol..jk

Remember - there are no mistakes in tombstone making, there are only creative aging techniques!

Sounds like someone took a shotgun to your cemetery and missed the zombie and put a hole in your tombstone.

Agreeing with Leota on this one - why not use it to your advantage? I've made so many mistakes with my tombstones but I just turn it into cracks and damage - looks creepier that way! Good luck fixing it, whichever way you go!

I feel your pain. I am out of foam adhesive and grabbed another adhesive off the glue shelf [yes, I have a shelf just for glue--don't judge me] and used it to attach a wood applique to a foam tombstone. About 4 hours later I went to see check the bond and the adhesive had melted huge holes in the foam. I grabbed the wrong adhesive. luckily it seems to have stopped eating away at the surface and i think i can salvage it if i wait another day to be sure the original glue has dried before trying to fix it.

ok your thread title cracked me up!!! And sorry bout your Tombstone but run with it! Of course you sound like a perfectionist lol, so i know how "running" with a mistake works with us OCD type people

I've already turned it into another crack...so things are ok there, but I put like 4-5 layers of really thin tea staining on this thing...looked REALLY cool...and now I have a big friggin white spot on it...and have to re-coat and re-stain and blah blah blah.....

this too will pass and all that, but this thing was FINISHED!!!!

@Stonebridge...yup a big red friggin shotgun!!!

@madameleota and frughoul...I have adapted and overcome, but it was just a "really....REALLY!!!?!?!?!?!?" moment.

@notjustaphaze...I usually like it when they come down to check out the work...I've already infected my daughter with my obsession...but it was just the absolut wrong friggin' time, you know?

@ondeko...that is how this stone started out...the middle of this thing (now hidden) looked like an ant farm from the glue eating away all the foam!!

@halloweenlurker...I just hate it when something it turning out SO WELL and then I do somehting STOOPID and mess it all up!!

dK