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roboto
So nice to see a frame like this cleaned up. People so often underestimate what some elbow grease will do.
I had a lovely old Mercian that the guy I bought I off was convinced needed a respray. With that frame there was really deeply imbedded dirt in the top surface and it looked totally matt, so I used a really fine sanding sponge that was worn out with lots of GT85 to take back that layer, then polished it with T-Cut and then waxed well, polished and waxed again. The difference was amazing and brought out a lovely patiener.
TL;dr: people clean you old frames properly before thinking about resprays.