Black chrome....

[Ruimteaapje]

Out of curiosity: is the "black chrome" Pinarello used in the 1980's basically a cromovelato (a black transparant paint on a chromed frame) or was it done with a different process?

 

[hamster]

My understanding was that it was done like a Flam metallic (i.e. coloured lacquer over silver) except the base was chrome not silver.

 

[Ruimteaapje]

Re:

Thanks "hamster", that's cromovelato!

 

[Midlife]

Doesn't look like Chromovelato. Sort of reminds me of the black chrome paint finish. Spectra chrome, hyperbkack for car parts and all that...

 

[Ruimteaapje]

Thanks "midlife", were such paints already available in the 1980's?

 

[Midlife]

Ah, there's a point. I was thinking about my car modifying days 2000 ish when black chrome paint effects were used quite a bit. If it's chrome underneath then it's more of a metalized lacquer than the chromovelato of say Razesa or Willier.... Not to mention the old acryllichrome from Carlton lol