Powder coating South London

Hello, we are SeaBass Cycles. We opened in camberwell about a year ago, we sell restored classic road bikes and do custom builds. We opened the shop as three friends, all very experienced mechanics and wheel builders with the plan to have a friendly, rider owned and run independent shop. It was always our intention to open an additional workshop space and offer services that most bikes shops don't. We are about to open to the public a warehouse in Peckham (copeland business park, behind the Bussey building) where we are offering a sandblasting, coating and three part wet spray service. We can powdercoat in a variety of colours and finishes . The wet spray is done by a very experienced painter, Dan from Cole Coachworks, fades, airbrushing and decals are all things he can do to name a few.

In a the coming months we will also have a frame building and frame repair workshop up and running. The warehouse also has about 70 refurbished bikes, numerous frames, wheels and classic groupsets for sale.

We will be having an opening this Saturday (8th of November) starting at about 6pm, come down and have look at the space.

For information about prices and turnaround time please email us at hello@seabasscycles.co.uk or befriend us on facebook/instagram. Our website is still under construction so please bare with us on that one, it should be live by the end of the week.

SBC

Any idea of prices for spray/powder?

powder from about £70 and spray from about £100.

Nice one SBC.

I will come to the opening.

Can you weld aluminium?

Cheers and good luck for your venture expansion.

Vince

(PS: let me know if you need Champagne)

Damn more than armourtex will wait to see results from others.

@Clockwise Armourtex is on the opposite side of town and I paid £76 the last time I had a steel frame blasted, painted (normal colour) and lacquered.

I am sure @SeaBassCycles will be able to give you more accurate quote is you give them more information - ie steel/alloy frame, blasting/dipping, choice of colour, lacquered or not, etc...

Plus Armourtex have been resting on their laurels and the quality isn't superb. I have to get BB shells and headtube chased after my powdercoat so it cost me another £20!

Bare steel frame+forks I'm considering ordering in the next few days, can strap frame+forks to my rucksack and ride it anywhere needed(transported a mixte frame from wood green to streatham like that before). Just needs a coat of anything so it won't rust(pending it arriving and being uncoated). Most likely will rattlecan clear coat it as I kinda want the raw look.

Buying blind but I figure it will arrive like this.

Bless yourself @vince. Indeed, information is good. All the frames will be given back the customer faced and reamed.

The sand blasting is quite time consuming, if the frame came to us in a fit state to powder coat and didn't need any prep we could do a clear coat for about forty pounds.

@Vince - see you there. not yet, but it will be something we will be will to do in the future.
Ta'

@SeaBassCycles

Price for an aluminium frame to be sandblasted and painted with a metallic paint, and for a carbon fork to be painted plain black?

Cheers

@dancing james for the wet metallic wet spray it would be about 110 i think but you can email colecoachworks@gmail.com for an accurate price.

Can you do a metallic clear coat on top of powder coating?

Yes, this should be possible. The forks would not be able to be powder coated though.

So how much for a sparkle metallic powder coat on aluminium frame, and a wet paint job on some carbon forks?

Also what is your turnaround time?

We will be operational as of next monday, the turn around should be with in the week, did you have a colour in mind? you'll have to email Dan for the price on the forks.

Aquamarine sort of thing - it's not for me, my partner would like her mtb (rigid) to be given a makeover. So we'd probably come by to look at some samples if possible.

Do you guys do steel frame repairs?

Would you be able to 'raw' a frame and clear-coat it?

The strip and clear coat we can do @amey. In terms of frame repairs @Zed it is some thing we will be able to do in a few weeks maybe a month.

Cool.

If nothing else, I think you've proven there is demand south of the river @SeaBassCycles. I'll keep you in mind if I need anything doing soon.

Thanks. These were our thoughts exactly. It's not all about east London.

east is dead; ask @>>>>>> AKA Teenslain

Really interesting! Are you doing any metal flakes effect? With wet spray or powder