TRADITIONAL 🅵🅾🅾🅻🅸🅶🅰🅽 - 1930s Elgin Oriole - 2nd Place (Tie) - BUILD JOURNAL

[kingfish254]

Colonial Red

 

[kingfish254]

Regal red

 

[kingfish254]

Regal on pond side
Colonial on courtyard side

 

[kingfish254]

Colonial Red is the closer match. I'll probably just need to knock down the finish a little bit.
Time to get to sanding the fork parts and prep them for paint.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Colonial Red is the closer match. I'll probably just need to knock down the finish a little bit.
Time to get to sanding the fork parts and prep them for paint.

Colonial for sure

 

[kingfish254]

Colonial for sure

Yes!

 

[kingfish254]

I've mentioned this deal before, but my go to sandpaper if from Dollar Tree. You get a good mixed stack for $1.25. It is decent quality too.

 

[kingfish254]

You gotta love old true chrome!

 

[Captain Awesome]

You gotta love old true chrome!

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Back when there wasn’t EPA to worry about and most stuff got nickel plated first. Makes good chrome stand out above the rest

 

[The Renaissance Man]

You gotta love old true chrome!

Meanwhile, I'm trying to develop methods to make new chrome look like the chrome that you are starting with.

 

[kingfish254]

 

[kingfish254]

Meanwhile, I'm trying to develop methods to make new chrome look like the chrome that you are starting with.

I thought seriously about leaving the aged chrome alone, but I just love these forks too much. I like having the contrasting flash and decay.

 

[kingfish254]

Just as I was cleaning the paint parts and putting wire hangers on them and about to pull together my urban paint booth, thunderstorm cloud rolled in.

 

[Uncle Shish]

Meanwhile, I'm trying to develop methods to make new chrome look like the chrome that you are starting with.

Looking to do the same

Broke out my annual paint tester fender. Colonial Red on the short end. Hammered Brown in middle. Regal Red on long end. Right away, I can see that the Regal is brighter Red than the Colonial.

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My garbage can gets the same treatment at our house

 

[marshall hudson]

Meanwhile, I'm trying to develop methods to make new chrome look like the chrome that you are starting with.

Hope you share that when you figure it out.

 

[kingfish254]

When we returned from dinner there was enough light and the rain had been gone for quite awhile. Assembled the urban paint booth and got a coat of primer on the fork parts.

Shortly after that a FB Marketplace seller responded that she still had two Electra Cruiser 7Ds fir sale. They need new chains and handlebar paint, but for $30 total, I jumped in the car for the nighttime 2 hour round trip.

 

[Wayne]

Did you get the 7D's?

 

[kingfish254]

Got a base coat of hammered brown on

 

[kingfish254]

Did you get the 7D's?

Yes. Projects, but worth 15 each any day

 

[kingfish254]

Added some random basecoat sprays from about 3 or 4 feet away with primer red and some flat brown