TRADITIONAL 🅵🅾🅾🅻🅸🅶🅰🅽 - 1930s Elgin Oriole

[Da Gas Man]

You are reminding me of a bunch of kids, playing with your food.
"You'll never cut the mustard, Mean Weiner!"

Was that one kid Dave Grohl? I swear it looks like Dave Grohl. Food Fighters, eh?

 

[kingfish254]

Good morning everyone. I looked at the fork in daylight and I kinda liked what I was seeing. It was also still slightly tacky. Maybe because of the mustard that is been aging underneath. Anyway, I figured I would first try unmustardizing using the 50/50 vinegar and steel wool. This looks promising. I am going to continue with this first just to the unmustard pattern level. Then if I am pleased with that, I'll proceed as normal with the blending and such.

 

[kingfish254]

 

[kingfish254]

Inside sections look good too

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Good. I thought you were giving up a little too soon yesterday. Looking good so far!

 

[kingfish254]

Fork shroud looking good as well

 

[kingfish254]

Still need to do the finer blending, but couldn't help doing a simple mockup

 

[OddJob]

Try a stiff brush right at the edges of the mustard induced sreas, to lift the paint a bit. Then maybe a Dead Flat matte clear to seal it and tone down the shine even more.

 

[Chad T]

That looks really good! Nice match to the frame patina.

 

[kingfish254]

Finished the blending and gave the parts a good cleaning.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

If you're up for the next challenge, here's what I would do.

Using the headtube as your road map, take a long and careful look at how much and where the red shows through and then carefully apply the mustard mask over the fork shroud and paint it white.