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Patience is growing very thin on YT Capra project.
After the powdercoater did a shitty job on the alu parts and shitty job at spraying the carbon stays I decided to drop the frame to a friend of a friend who is a spray painter to touch up the shitty bits and respray the shitty carbon bit. After they were dropped to him I found out he has exams on and wasn't going to get around to it for a fortnight.
Three weeks later it turns into "I won't get to it until next Wednesday at best and I'm snowed under"...
So I take back the frame and decide to go a different route with the finish. I have a spray can from the powdercoater and I decide to have a go myself, I've sprayed bikes before and while not going to win any awards at Bespoked they've been certainly passable... the shit in this can is like a heavy sneeze, I cannot get it to give a decent finish without dribbles all over. It just comes out crazy heavy.
Now I'm undecided as to whether I go and buy some more cans and continue or do I leave it with the chap who's painting my Koga Miyata and just spend the money to have a good finish on it? Worse again, I've ordered some Posca paint pens to do some designs on it and if I go with Good Painter I'llhave to get him to lay down a base coat, take it back, do my stuff and then drop it back for clearcoat...
Bloody annoying.