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Thanks all for your interest in my business, it's been a wild ride over the last 3 months since I slammed on the brakes as I wasn't happy with the whole service. It's taken some time to get to a new workshop, new equipment and even a new team but I'm really happy with how things are going. Doing everything by hand with a keen eye and the technical know-how has always been the key to custom paint and it still is.
Our turnaround time used to be roughly 10 weeks but it's now 4 weeks. We're also mixing fully custom colours, working with local bike shops and generally pushing and testing our paint-work from metal-flakes to fade paint.
We've recently done some testing on a new ceramic lacquer which is a unique mix to us (the tin even says No Quarter - ha!) which we'll be offering on any frame. We're still not quite sure on pricing but this lacquer will be roughly £60 extra.
I did want to keep this one under wraps until Wayne has built it but I couldn't pass the opportunity to get some snaps of it before it goes home.
Really pleased with this job, the finish is super and we've used a few of our spraying techniques making this a really durable finish by making the paint thinner (not just a case of spraying less). Thin paint = strong.
We've also used a new lacquer which we're really happy with. Most lacquers make matte black go slightly grey which isn't what we were looking for. This is a very deep matte black!
All masking done by hand.