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This image is of aluminium rather than steel.
It's a softer metal and the effect is more significant but this is what the surface of your blasted steel will look like. As you said, dull grey, and pitted.The raw look you are after ideally needs to see clearcoat applied directly over the steel from the off.
If you want to get this effect, you can do a bit of the graft yourself... quality paint stripper and abrasives to avoid the pitting. You can put a nice 'key' into it with red or grey scotchbrite. Then you can bring it to me and I'll use a direct adhesion clearcoat. There will be some anti properties to the clear so rusting will be slowed, then, as you chip and ding and scuff the frame, those fractals and deltas of oxidation will bloom.
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Not sure where to ask this. But i'm thinking of having a Reynolds 853 frame (Genesis day one) sandblasted then clear coated, going for the raw look similar to the clear coated raw Mash Work frames. Would those steps work or does sandblasting reduce the steel to silver/ grey?
How is that slightly oxidized raw look achieved? Thanks