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Did some work on the fenders and fork to get them looking like the frame.
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That looks great!

I had the same bike (Coppertooth) but it had been sandblasted down to bare metal then painted. Nice to see what color it originally was, especially patina like that.
Thanks, I have another Road Master that I bought along with this one. It is covered in thick red paint. I haven't tried to see if there is anything underneath yet.
 
Amazing job on the cleaning! The OG paint's got a great patina!

Would you give me a run down of the process you did to get it to this point? I've got a frame that's going to need the same treatment soon. I can't tell if its grime or paint, but I wanna take it slow and see if the OG paint that lies under can shine again.
 
Amazing job on the cleaning! The OG paint's got a great patina!

Would you give me a run down of the process you did to get it to this point? I've got a frame that's going to need the same treatment soon. I can't tell if its grime or paint, but I wanna take it slow and see if the OG paint that lies under can shine again.
I had cleaned the frame with Simple Green. After that had dried, I wiped it down with boiled linseed oil. I didn't really like how it looked at that point, so I started rubbing it with steel wool. This is when I noticed that it had what looked like gold paint over the original. I just kept rubbing with 00 steel wool until I got the look I wanted. I'm not going to try to get every speck of gold paint off. After I got it looking like I wanted, I wiped it off with mineral spirits, let that dry and wiped it with a new coat of linseed oil.
This is the first time I have tried this, and there are probably better ways to do it. I was just trying to be easy on the paint, just trying to get the original to show through using what I had on hand.
 
OUTSTANDING cleaning--the OG paint on this was a maroon cherry, ivory with orange strips--you have brought it back--patina is awesome.
Wow, I can't believe there's still noticeable original paint under all that. Looks really cool!
Thanks, this will be the ratty cousin to my ORBO Shelby klunker.
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Well, I was almost on the back page. Have been doing little boring things to this one. Not really worth reporting. Have had trouble with my crankset. The original came with a bolt welded in place of a pedal.
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So I found a replacement dogleg crank from a Hawthorne, ended up being too narrow, and hit the chain stay.
Bought a Roadmaster crank set from marius.suiram which was nice but too shiny. I'll use that later.
Finally had to resort to stealing the crank out of my other Roadmaster.
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That was fine until I snapped the pedal off trying to remove it.
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Luckily, I was able to get this out without screwing up the threads. So no more crank drama.
 
Got everything apart.
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Pretty nasty under pan. Looks like tar.
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Had to resort to gasoline and a brass brush out in the driveway to get this off.
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Was wondering what I was going to use for padding, but remembered this old piece of carpet pad that was in the trunk of an old VW I had bought. It was too thick so I split it in half.
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Got it glued on and trimmed up.
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Tomorrow I will get the leather covering on. The color is "Cherry Cola".
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