All Road Custom Steel (DK -> UK)

True. Worst thing that can happen is that I end up with a fine and fast tyre touring setup on my other frame and buy new tyres for this one. And thank you for photos and measuring stuff. I appreciate it!

Advantage of working in one of the best bicycle workshop in London, got all the tools to measure an' stuff.

Group set has arrived. Cranks fit fine and everything seems perfect, except for the fact that the front mech braze on is a little off center and I can see now that I generally was in a hurry. Filing and brazing is not as nice I have previously done it. A bit ashamed of having to show @coldharbour my work tomorrow ;-) Hopefully paint will cover it.

And what color did you choose? Turqoise?

Yes, something like that. I haven't found a painter yet. Waiting to hear Matt's advice later today.

Still going for this. More green than blue

Ok. Will you paint the fork?

Yes spray. All of it

Parts are coming together nicely.

And some DT/ST decoration:

Just had a chat with Armourtex. They can't promise that fork and frame can be matched. They want to wet spray forks but powder coat frame. I will go there tomorrow and see what can be done. Any suggestions to alternative paint jobs are welcome.

That's the same as guaranteeing an anti-porn color mismatch #straighttofrankenthread

speak to mario vaz or cole coatings? Vaz did all of talbots suff

Cole Coating doesn't have a phone number only contact is through the messageform on his website #useless
I will call Mario Vaz.

I have started thinking about champagne. I used to own this:

It can be a little hard to photoshop that colour, but I imagine it would look like this:

Like an hommage to Benotto i guess. I fucking love that colour...

Dude doesn't pick up... I thought painting would be the easy bit...

Liking earth colours...

Got untill tomorrow around 11am to decide colour. Mario Vaz will spray it.

Benotto nickel beige is classic. I also like the metallic sage green of my rawland...

Yeah also nice.

Yep. That colour does it for me. If I ever get my frame sprayed again that's up there at the top of the list. I'll just take em a pic of your Rawland.

How about in between the green and the champagne? Love the green of my Argos.

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Yes that is quite nice

Not got any good quality photos to hand but yeah , I think it's a real nice balance.

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Uhh I hate to have to make this decision.

Sage metallic green

Argos metallic green

Turqouise metallic

Turquoise metallic for me , really suits the style of the build.

Then again, you Argos green in the photo chop doesn't look realistic.