vcballbat
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Ball park for a steel road frame and fork pre striped to bare metal in candy?
Who’s good/reasonable for paint these days
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I think you misread my original post, I don’t actually paint myself. In the past I have had varied work from several paint shops around the country, now I only use Quinntessential
customs workshop in London. They aren’t the cheapest but I’ve only ever received outstanding work from them.
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Do you have hotos of any of their work? Any rough guide to price? I had a search, but I wouldn't find a website for them.
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i use matt at the Powder shack for powercoat, he did a couple of frames for me a while ago, flip powder paint blue to purple with black stickers with a lacquer, was £185 i think, booked it in, lost if for only 2 weeks, really pleased, frame was ready to assemble on return.
for straight forward jobs i use Blue Whippet paintworks, which is the Rourke cycles paint shop, good value, they did my KilaHonzo, white with stickers supplied by me. good enough for Kona Dream build so good enough for me!
thye also did my F.Moser Leader AX
much more complicated paint, it's not perfect, and arguably not the right blue but frankly i think it looks better than the original whic i have a friends frame to compare it to and i think this is better, was about £450 if memory serves
i have used Fat Creations, but they do charge a lot, it's great work but it's a lot, this is paint by Fat Creations on my Demon, it is perfect though but i think with fat creations you're looking at a minimum of 800 even for basic work and the wait is long.
for straight forward jobs i use Blue Whippet paintworks, which is the Rourke cycles paint shop, good value, they did my KilaHonzo, white with stickers supplied by me. good enough for Kona Dream build so good enough for me!
thye also did my F.Moser Leader AX
much more complicated paint, it's not perfect, and arguably not the right blue but frankly i think it looks better than the original whic i have a friends frame to compare it to and i think this is better, was about £450 if memory serves
i have used Fat Creations, but they do charge a lot, it's great work but it's a lot, this is paint by Fat Creations on my Demon, it is perfect though but i think with fat creations you're looking at a minimum of 800 even for basic work and the wait is long.
vcballbat
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Cheers for the heads up, will look into them, London is a bit more local as well..
I used Bailey Payne for my bontrager, he does the in house with for Hope. Wasn't expensive a year ago.
