Fun with rattlecans first coat!

Two coats of primer, now just on first coat.

This montana black is some job, I dunno if its going to need a second tin.

No, im not spraying inside it just started to mizzle a little bit so I brought it inside.

Looks more bluey green than it does in pic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34123558@N08/4838606792/

nice bit of masking

its pretty solid after one tin of montana and two coats, dunno if it really needs more than that hmmm

how many coats people usually stick on.

Ive a tin of lacquer coming in the post to put over it too.

Did you leave the headset and BB in?

Did you leave the headset and BB in?

nice bit of masking

:)

:)

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I pity the fool

all the headset and cranks etc is super masked to all hell, The cranks and headset would stuck pretty tight to the extent that I was worried about removing them with anymore force.

No such thing as too tight, get bigger tools.

its pretty solid after one tin of montana and two coats, dunno if it really needs more than that hmmm

how many coats people usually stick on.

Ive a tin of lacquer coming in the post to put over it too.

No such thing as too many coats, if you want it to last and look deep and lustrous I'd say 6-8 minimum...

Its at 2 primer and 4 coats of colour now and looking pretty much solid, montana black seems to be really nice paint though, going to smooth it out with some 1000 wet and dry and then hit it with and couple of coats tomorrow.

This is my first bike build and a pretty steep learning curve, but im enjoying it.

Looked so nice stripped down:

Its at 2 primer and 4 coats of colour now and looking pretty much solid, montana black seems to be really nice paint though, going to smooth it out with some 1000 wet and dry and then hit it with and couple of coats tomorrow.

This is my first bike build and a pretty steep learning curve, but im enjoying it.

Sounds like you're doing it right, should look gorgeous!

Gorgeous!

Ha, lol.

Tomasito, I liked the smoothed out bare metal too.

Hopefully it looks good when its finished, it'll be chrome old school style wheels, chrome drop bars to match the crank and black saddle and handlebar tape.

cheapest place that powdercoats is 120 euro in dublin + 100 miles travel, so its not like I have the option of dandering to armourtex, its hardly the swankiest frame either.

Ha, lol.

snigger

cheapest place that powdercoats is 120 euro in dublin + 100 miles travel

Where abouts are you mate? In Ireland? I'm dropping my frame out to Tallaght Powdercoating this week...

yes, up in belfast. so taking a frame to dublin is a bit of a trek. I'd rather buy a really nice frame than spend £150 between travel and powdercoating.

The frame was made by raleigh dublin in 79.

the colour looks much brighter above than it is

I do like a baby blue fixie

*Gorgeous

Baby Blue™*