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Must. Stop. Getting. Distracted. Need to concentrate on the task at hand.
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if you pull the fork blades down a bit it’ll pick the frame up a little at the front, but it will pick the curve of the legs up and have the blades that hold the wheel more horizontal to the ground. Originals were nearly parallel. I try to achieve that but often I’m off a bit.

Anyway, it’s looking awesome!
 
if you pull the fork blades down a bit it’ll pick the frame up a little at the front, but it will pick the curve of the legs up and have the blades that hold the wheel more horizontal to the ground. Originals were nearly parallel. I try to achieve that but often I’m off a bit.

Anyway, it’s looking awesome!
Thanks!

Yeah, I've been adjusting the forks up and down in the triple trees and it doesn't seem to make too much of a difference in how parallel the tubes are to the ground, but it is noticeable. I need to get over to the other garage where my welding equipment is to set it up permanent. I'd like the legs down in the triples as much as possible without the angle at the front of the forks looking too off level. We'll see how it goes but I'm loving this build!
 
I want to do a red metal flake on this bike. I’ve been looking at options for paint. I’m going to stick with rattle cans so options are a bit limited. I watched some videos where guys painted guitars with this stuff and had great results.
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The gold metallic made for a good base coat for the red glitter.
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The glitter paint is textured and kind of flat so a clear coat is needed. First coat of clear:
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Not too bad but it accumulates orange peel quickly. Here’s coat 3 wet:
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And dry to touch:
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The orange peel is pretty dramatic. It’s going to take a lot of wet sanding to knock this down. I might save this paint for future projects and order some better paint. I’ll see how much sanding this will need first.
 
I want to do a red metal flake on this bike. I’ve been looking at options for paint. I’m going to stick with rattle cans so options are a bit limited. I watched some videos where guys painted guitars with this stuff and had great results.
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The gold metallic made for a good base coat for the red glitter.
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The glitter paint is textured and kind of flat so a clear coat is needed. First coat of clear:
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Not too bad but it accumulates orange peel quickly. Here’s coat 3 wet:
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And dry to touch:
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The orange peel is pretty dramatic. It’s going to take a lot of wet sanding to knock this down. I might save this paint for future projects and order some better paint. I’ll see how much sanding this will need first.
On my Showboatin build I did gold metal flake

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Using these two over a white base coat

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And the metalcast comes in red
 
It doesn't show well in the pics but the glitter paint does have that metal flake look that I’m after. It’s just the heavy orange peel in the clear that’s a bummer.
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I've read that the Rustoleum clear that's made to go with their glitter paint also isn't very durable and damages easily. This guy has had really good results using the glitter paint with 2K clear. He paints Harleys with it and says it holds up well so maybe that's an option.
 
I did another test with the glitter paint. I used a black base coat this time and different clear. It got a similar amount of orange peel. It’s the glitter paint that orange peels. Then it accumulates with the clear. I think I might use a different metal flake paint. This can work with 2K clear but I don’t know.
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