Can you get your lugs done a different colour?

Does anyone know if Vaz or Amourtec can do your lugs a different colour to the rest of the frame? I quite fancied a red frame with purple lugs, as the lugs are pretty nice on my frame and I think it would look good.
But is it possible?

yes if it is traditional painting, but no for armoutec. for example mercian charge £19.50 for each lug in contrast colour.

It is possible but not all sprayers do it. There is quite skill and it takes alot of time to mask off lugs so they are done well, alot of time with masking tape, sharpe knife. masking fluid and one of these weird masking pen things. Hence it would cost alot of money. If you have it done you don't want a shit job. IT may be better to send it to Argos or mercian who have more experience in that type of thing.

yeah, as dogsballs said, armoutec don;t do it - they don't do lug lining either...

vaz does do it. i've seen some stunning fancy paint jobs, but you have to be prepared to pay the price. which for me, if i'm spending the money i'd personally prefer mercian or argos as tommy has said.

hmm... I think its gonna have to be one colour then. I am poor : (

You could get the bike powder coated your main colour then paint the lugs yourself with an enamel paint or car paint. if you make mistake the powder coat will laugh at paint-stripper so just clean the lugs up with that and try again. for a lasting finish you should key the powder coat on the lugs with some sand paper first to roughen the surface so the paint has something to stick to.

that sounds like a good idea. I might give it a go.
cheers

then, after that would you need to get a transparent coat on over the top? or would it be fine just like that??
just trying to get my head around bike painting at the moment...

hmm that actually sounds interesting once you ask that question.

i know you can powdercoat the frame without clear-coating it with armortex, as turd did with his fort pursuit frame. it'll give you a matte finish. and according to BillB's method it actually makes more sense to powdercoat it first sans clearcoat so whatever paint you apply afterwards have a matte surface to stick on to. dry for a week then take it back to clearcoat it... should work out very well no?

If you plan to take it back to armourtec for a clear coat whatever paint you have applied needs to withstand 200C. Armourtec were intrigued but unsure if it could work or not.

You can powdercoat in one layer to give a very glossy finish, you do not need to clear coat with powder to give a gloss finish (but if you do clear coat over gloss it gives a real deep shiny finish). But you won't get paint to stick over a smooth finish very well, and most paints will burn or react with a powder clear coat over the top.

I would go with powder coat the frame in your base colour, probably a nice gloss finish, your lugs are raised, so it would be easy to key them with say 300-600grit abrasive to give the lugs a matt lightly rough finish for paint to stick to (you can mask the main tubes to protect them while you sand the lugs). You should now be able to mask up the tubes and paint the lugs, I would use a std car paint (whatever your local motorfactors has) or enamel, both of those should stick reasonably well to the keyed lugs and not require a further top coat, you could clear coat them with a similar paint if you wanted, but personally I probably wouldn't. The other option would be to have armourtec do the base coat in powder, then powder the lugs, but wipe the excess powder off the tubes (its only stuck on by electrostatic charge so your basically dusting it off)and re-bake it to cure the lugs.