this pomp is gorgeous! How did you rattle can the carbon fork?
Thanks :)
Painting the Fork was something of an experiment - I wanted to try a non-destructive paint job, so I decided to use Plasti-Dip, which is technically a liquid rubber coating that can be applied with aerosols like paint. It is definitely NOT paint. It can be peeled straight off if you don't like it, leaving nothing behind.
Prep is merely a wipe-down with a spirit rag / tack cloth.
Three good coats of White Plasti-Dip were to act as my base coat / 'primer'.
I then went ahead and sprayed the colour coat on, which was the exact same paint as the frame (Krylon Italian Olive Satin).
At this point, if I were to leave it at that, the internet (mainly peeps on modified car forums) told me that the paint would harden like a shell, and peeling it off with the Plasti-Dip below would become far more difficult - it would chip and flake off in tiny bits and take forever. Then I found a thread where some bright spark had the idea of creating a 'Plast-Dip sandwich' by using White PD as base, then paint, then using Clear PD (which is flat) as the clearcoat.
This means that the paint would be trapped between two highly flexible PD layers, and removal should (theoretically) be quite easy.
I didn't test this theory, I just went ahead and did it. I don't plan on removing it any time soon, but there should be a pristine Easton CF fork beneath all those layers. Fuck knows how much heavier the fork is now...
Thanks :)
Painting the Fork was something of an experiment - I wanted to try a non-destructive paint job, so I decided to use Plasti-Dip, which is technically a liquid rubber coating that can be applied with aerosols like paint. It is definitely NOT paint. It can be peeled straight off if you don't like it, leaving nothing behind.
Prep is merely a wipe-down with a spirit rag / tack cloth.
Three good coats of White Plasti-Dip were to act as my base coat / 'primer'.
I then went ahead and sprayed the colour coat on, which was the exact same paint as the frame (Krylon Italian Olive Satin).
At this point, if I were to leave it at that, the internet (mainly peeps on modified car forums) told me that the paint would harden like a shell, and peeling it off with the Plasti-Dip below would become far more difficult - it would chip and flake off in tiny bits and take forever. Then I found a thread where some bright spark had the idea of creating a 'Plast-Dip sandwich' by using White PD as base, then paint, then using Clear PD (which is flat) as the clearcoat.
This means that the paint would be trapped between two highly flexible PD layers, and removal should (theoretically) be quite easy.
I didn't test this theory, I just went ahead and did it. I don't plan on removing it any time soon, but there should be a pristine Easton CF fork beneath all those layers. Fuck knows how much heavier the fork is now...