ALBINI - Self-Obsessed and CX-y (The SSCX / Tracklocross bike I DON’T need)

I don’t know… I’ve seen some questionable things on Instagram.

And here’s Steve Albini holding a cat.

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Sparkle clear coated the forks. It’s really hard to photograph the 🌈 , but it’s there and looks great in the flesh.

My friend warned me that it might run, looks like it made the splatter run a tiny bit, but it’s not really noticeable.

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I’m also possibly being gifted a silver set of Paul touring canti’s. Is it crazy to want to buy a black set and run them mismatched? Can I justify $240 on one brake set?

It is really coming together now. Cracking work!

Well, I bought these.

Sneak peek of the top of the seat tube. Can’t take tape off until I do the splatter white… but it looks crisp!

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Should’ve I taken my time and got the split perfectly centred? Probably. Will it annoy me a little bit? Yeah. Is it noticeable? Not really. Am I going to tape it back up and do it again? Fuck no.

I can’t really do anything more frame and fork wise until I pick the colour(s) for the seat tube. I do need to cut the masks and figure out how I’m taping between the top tube and bottom bracket because there’s no lugs. I also need to try and put the mask on the logos on the down tube.

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Amazing!!

The A masked on the front. Hopefully this works. My back up plan if it doesn’t is to cut some vinyl with a slightly thicker border and cover it up.

You can’t quite see it, but the letter is covered in the masking film too.

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Thinking of a similar blue and pink as this.

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Re-cut the Ritchey faceplate logo out of white vinyl for the stem. Just need some slight adjustments to it and I’ll paint the whole stem black and put this on and clear coat it all. The eyes on the stem look good, but they’re too fine to mask and paint, so I’ll probably do white vinyl and clear coat over them too.

This was pretty rushed, the final decal will be a lot better.

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Well my son has lovingly passed covid onto me, so looks like I’ll be at home for another 7 days. Thankfully he’s out of isolation on Friday and will be staying with my in-laws and / or going to school, which gives me some time (providing I don’t feel like absolute shit) to do some more to this. Might order some more paint to finish the seat tube this weekend.

Just ordered the pink and blue spray paint to be delivered next week. Might as well take advantage of being at home.

Doing pink seat tube with black eye outlines and blue around the logos.

Was going to order this ‘cos MASH, but I think I’ll order the other one instead.

This is such a banger. Can't wait to see it finished.

Would you consider commissions?
Wait. You're in Australia, right?
Yeah. No.

Ha. It’s actually been pretty easy to do. Just time consuming.

Decal for the back of the seat tube.

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Love it, how come you choose Montana black over gold?

Just because it was easy to get delivered and had the colours I wanted. Being stuck at home in isolation has limited what I have access to, and this was local.

Decided to try a different stem. This is an old chrome Masi stem I had lying around. I gave it a quick sand and about 5 coats of black and one of rainbow sparkle. I’ll hit it with some clear coat this week as well.

The paint I ordered is also getting delivered today, so I should really tape the rest of the frame up so I can get it finished. Of course it’s raining today, so no painting. The rest of the week looks okay though, so I’m hoping all the painting will be done by next weekend.

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So the pink and blue paint arrived. I was masking up the downtube logos and I decided not to paint them. I feel like I’ve gone to all this effort to do the paint and I didn’t want to fuck it up with the logos, so I decided to use vinyl for the logos. I’ve got some metallic that goes from pink to blue and some black and white vinyl. I’ve done it so the white side has black letters and the black side has white with the metallic outline. I think it looks pretty awesome and I’m so glad I went down this path. I would’ve liked to do the headtube logo half black / half white but it would’ve been too hard.

The whole frame will be clear coated with rainbow sparkle and then a gloss clear, so the decals will be under a few layers of paint.

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This is turning out SO much nicer than all those Spray.bike paintjobs on instagram.
Top work!

I’m in, if only for the eyes.
Jon Klassen’s I want My Hat Back is one of the best books I’ve even seen.
And Hat Box is the best trilogy ever, end of.

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