Hulsroy's Hustle

First concept was actually something along those lines.

I think I am just going to leave it Caput Mortuum and let the hand painted finish shine. @Maj convinced me it is top artisanal

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Dang. Frame looks great Mads.

Thank you ❤️

Tried this in-between sanding idea. It might be good actually. Let see how it dries up. Here is photos of three layers. The more even one is sanded lightly with scotchbrite after two layers.

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Are those black accents going to be hand brush strokes?!

Top artisan.

looks cool, flattens it a bit without eliminating all of the brush marks, that could be cool indeed and allow to control the amount of brush marks and their presence which gives an additional option for the paint! frame looks great btw

That was the plan, but I am saving that for your bike now. I want to keep this mega simple.

Yes. Thanks!

Point of no return...

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Just to echo what others have said, this is an infinitely cool project

Did you move to a South facing window for painting?!?

Yes south. I am using the studio space at our house. All windows are facing north in my workshop and as we are four sharing the space it would be hard to control dust etc.
I am planning on making a paint booth in the workshop attic and if this linseed oil paint turns out amazing I will invest in UV lights. My mate has a UV curing light I can borrow if he can find it. If that works I'll buy it off him.

And thanks @yoshy

I'm thinking that one thing that's with linseed the paint is that it can be applied with the hand. Also maybe some early pottery patterns, like Jōmon rope pottery might be an idea?

Also+1 for purpur, as it's basically OG Electric Purple.

but I am saving that for your bike now

Let me buy a house first!

can a house be painted with linseed oil?

Yes

Great for wooden windows, have a look at brainfzzuk on insta

Longtime lurker, love this thread. I've noticed that some (all?) of your frame builds share the skinny mono seat stays. I think it looks absolutely stunning, but does it have any impact on the stiffness of the bike?

Thanks.

I am not an engineer so I can't say for sure. I've developed them with Stayer Cycles and we've built quite a few of them without issues.
My gravel bike has two regular straight Columbus stays and my fixed gear (former gravel bike) has wishbone stay. They are built almost identical in technique and tube choice and geometry is very similar and I can not feel the difference.
Wishbone is made from T45 steel which is absolutely the stiffest aero industry tubing. For road and rando style bikes we use a 12.9mm tube and off-road stuff a 16mm tube. I make the top part of random scrap from forks og chainstay and Stayer Cycles bend theirs custom out of t45 I believe.

Here's the two bikes

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Fascinating, cheers for the technical detail! Perhaps the stiffness of the chainstays dominates, which is why you don't see any difference in feel. I think both bikes looks great

Know the weight on the all road??

Still my favorite forum bike!

No sorry. No idea. But it isn't heavy. It's obviously Zona tubing so appropriate for MTBs but carbon wheels and forks don't weigh much

My guess is 9-10kg

Thanks

Linseed Oil Paint experiments update:

Here isa photo of finish after two thin layers cured for 24-36h after each layer.

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