So I want to get into spraying. A little background. I'm a 100% hobbiest who started making picture frames for my girlfriends paintings. As I have gotten a feel for the router table and wood working I am much more apt at coming up with my own designs. This leads to any number of nooks, crannies, curves, etc. that I feel would benefit greatly from a sprayed on finish or paint/finish. I also want to get away from the brush strokes when using artists brushes to give the frames a more uniform finish. And lastly, my girlfriend can mix up any color I want from the primaries. So what I want to do is get a touch up spray gun to run on my pancake compressor - 2.3cfm @ 90psi/3.4 @ 40psi. I have been playing around with the 10$ harbor freight touch up gun just to test out spraying and I feel fairly confident I will have enough air for what I want to do. I was originally thinking to get an air brush but as I looked around more I found HVLP touch up sprayers, specifically an Iwata LPH80 - 1.2mm tip/2.2CFM @ 14psi. Finishes for raw wood will be shellac or poly. I've got no problem thinning these down, time/product consumption really are not much of an issue. As far as paint, I am still trying to figure out what to use. I've just been thinning down heavy body artists acrylic with water to play around. So that all being said, does this seem like a viable set up for painting/finishing picture frame size projects? The 1.2mm tip is a bit limiting from my research but I'll be alright using rattle can primer for now. I know for the money of the Iwata I can get a decent 2 turbine HVLP set up. My train of thought is to upgrade my compressor down the road and get one of the nicer detail guns now instead of a middle of the road turbine HVLP set up. Thank you for the help/ advice. I've been researching this for a while and just want to make sure my idea is not going to flop before I pull the trigger.