Mystery All-Rad Metallurgical Masterpiece And Other Projects

@nogk powder coat is great - as I found though, it can add a fair bit of mass to the frame. Seatpost collars are a particular barrel of laughs...

@vp1337 It looks it in hand, but not at all out of place on as you'll see shortly

I think that depends on your painters ability to stop when enough is enough.

Never had issues with Aurum finishing in London for example. Maybe the textured powder is even worse in terms of added thickness. A way to avoid it would have been to have turned a stainless sleeve with a bit of an extra top for your collar to sit on.

To fix it it now I would not hesitate to mask of the seat tube and use a bit of Emory cloth to sand down to the under coat. If you apply a bit of grease between that and the collar it will be fine. Especially in your part of the universe

Glad we're on the same page for the collar, we deicided it'd be best to skim it back a bit, but for now got an outsized one over it, essentially just so I can ride it. Next issue was a slightly misaligned brake tab on the fork which meant sanding back a bit of the metal (it's plenty thick). First bikes eh?

Yes. That's how it goes.
I cock up daily

My usual shit timing struck and I'm in quarantine having traveled interstate, but here are some more pictures of the build from before I left.

Shoehorned a shit collar on for now till I can file back the paint build up. A bit of silver was a nice change though.

This is getting sweeter and sweeter, but the back of that cassette should've been painted with the frame

Ha! It's not something that worries me too much - should be easily blanked out with a Sharpie though.

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