Copper plating my Fondriest X-Status

That looks awesome now it's starting to age, nice job.

Echoing what others are saying about the stem, nice Thomson in black would look the part. They probably ride great but (in my opinion, purely on aesthetics) a pair of compact drops would look 10x better.

hey, would be really interested to see some pictures of the bike a couple of months down the road!!!

this

^ this again.

want to see the greeeen

The frame is nowhere near being green yet. The current color is hard to describe, as it is somewhat of a combination of brown with a bluish hue. It changes frequently, for example when sweat or sports drink drips onto it, or when I ride it in the rain.

I used to specialise in patinating metalwork at my old job.

I could easily make it verdegris for you, hit me up.

I am parting out the Fondriest to raise funds for my new titanium monstercross project. Below are some shots of the frame in its current condition (I wiped the top en down tube with ammonia in an attempt to remove some of the oxidation).

That was quick!

Now it just looks 'steam punk' :(

it was a lot better with its fondriest paintjob !

It looks ace! It really is Nice the Way it has oxidated!

Finally the glamour shots. As you can see the copper is already starting to show a nice bit of oxidation. All that remains now is sorting out the issue with the chain link.

Shit the bed, this looks incredible. I really like the shiny look but that was never going to last. I can see the oxidised version looking great with clean silver kit.