Thanks, no way do I have the time this week for the taping and painting that would take. Dental work starts tomorrow morning.
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Thanks, no way do I have the time this week for the taping and painting that would take. Dental work starts tomorrow morning.
Stem caps are EPIC!!!
Here are the ones I did on Fugsley
I like the idea of painting the felby bars. And the wheels are cool as they sit. I was wondering how the silver would look up against the spokes; it's gonna work!
Excellent finish work.
After dinner tonight, I figured I should get the handlebars sanded in case time and weather gave me a painting window for them.
150 grit cleaned them up relatively quickly. Then even though it was around 820pm, fairly humid, and no primer on the bars, for some reason I figured I would go ahead and paint the raw bars with the VHT Burnt Copper. The alley is actually lit fairly well with street lights. So I rolled out the garbage cans and superstrut at an angle to take advantage of the lights.
I think I covered all of the angles of the bars well. How well the paint looks is yet to be determined. We'll see how it dries. I have a feeling that the silver metallic undercoat I had on the other parts helped them. It could also be the humidity, but I feel these might look a bit hazy when they dry. We'll see tomorrow. Worst case, they are a base primer for a silver coat for then another coppertone coat.
I think all of us are looking for shortcuts every place we can find them
150 grit cleaned them up relatively quickly. Then even though it was around 820pm, fairly humid, and no primer on the bars, for some reason I figured I would go ahead and paint the raw bars with the VHT Burnt Copper. The alley is actually lit fairly well with street lights. So I rolled out the garbage cans and superstrut at an angle to take advantage of the lights.
I think I covered all of the angles of the bars well. How well the paint looks is yet to be determined. We'll see how it dries. I have a feeling that the silver metallic undercoat I had on the other parts helped them. It could also be the humidity, but I feel these might look a bit hazy when they dry. We'll see tomorrow. Worst case, they are a base primer for a silver coat for then another coppertone coat.
I think all of us are looking for shortcuts every place we can find them 
And now you have a sweet vest to wear when you ride!?!LOL
It was a modern JC Penney Arizona Jeans Co Pleather Vinyl jacket that I got on ebay because I thought the stripes would play well with the play scheme.
Yea, Sweet vest dude! Maybe hang some metals from it 
After work I pulled out the some of the parts to see how the bars looked. The paint on the bars was incomplete and a mix of semigloss to matte in the way it dried. Also, I think the silver metallic base coat that all of the other parts got, really helps the coppertone pop. So, lesson learned don't rush paint and skip prep.
With that said, I like the vibe of painting the bars coppertone. I shot some of the pics over to @Dr. Tankenstein to get his opinion.
He had asked me about grips earlier and I remembered that I had these light silverish gold flaky Western Flyer muscle bike grips that I got from @ozzynut2 years ago. I think these are the right grips.
With that said, I like the vibe of painting the bars coppertone. I shot some of the pics over to @Dr. Tankenstein to get his opinion.
He had asked me about grips earlier and I remembered that I had these light silverish gold flaky Western Flyer muscle bike grips that I got from @ozzynut2 years ago. I think these are the right grips.
The more we chatted the more parts I brought out for color and scale comparison.
Like @Psychographic , Tank asked if I could tape up the half/half paint like I did on the frame. As you can see with these bars, there are so many compound curves going it, what may start as the top becomes the side, then may become the bottom. I don't want the bars to look like a candy cane swirl . But brainstorming got me looking at it differently. What if I paint it to mimic the guard and rack and not the frame????
So what I plan to do now is paint the bars with a silver base coat, then taped it off so that it has speed scallop darts on the side views
HERE
and HERE
So the sweeping front of the bars will be coppertone feeding into darts over silver around the stem and in front of the grips. This will also give more definition for the grips. Hey @Dr. Tankenstein , thanks again for another profitable brainstorming session.
Like @Psychographic , Tank asked if I could tape up the half/half paint like I did on the frame. As you can see with these bars, there are so many compound curves going it, what may start as the top becomes the side, then may become the bottom. I don't want the bars to look like a candy cane swirl
. But brainstorming got me looking at it differently. What if I paint it to mimic the guard and rack and not the frame????So what I plan to do now is paint the bars with a silver base coat, then taped it off so that it has speed scallop darts on the side views
HERE
and HERE
So the sweeping front of the bars will be coppertone feeding into darts over silver around the stem and in front of the grips. This will also give more definition for the grips. Hey @Dr. Tankenstein , thanks again for another profitable brainstorming session.
Well, now that I had a plan, what can I get done tonight? First off, I had to repaint the bars. Sanded them with 500grit, then painted them with gray primer.
Then I looked at my Silver Metallic and realized I only had about 1/2 can left. Off to Home Depot #1 -FAIL , Home Depot #2 -FAIL, Lowes -SUCCESS!!! (Covid has caused a short stock of common colors at a lot of stores). Got home, sanded the primed bars. Puled out the trash cans and got them painted with the silver metallic base.
Oh yeah, and did I mention I did all of this after having 3 teeth extracted this morning and working the rest of the day at the office?
Tomorrow, I hope to be able to tape off the bars.
Then I looked at my Silver Metallic and realized I only had about 1/2 can left. Off to Home Depot #1 -FAIL , Home Depot #2 -FAIL, Lowes -SUCCESS!!! (Covid has caused a short stock of common colors at a lot of stores). Got home, sanded the primed bars. Puled out the trash cans and got them painted with the silver metallic base.
Oh yeah, and did I mention I did all of this after having 3 teeth extracted this morning and working the rest of the day at the office?
Tomorrow, I hope to be able to tape off the bars.
SICK touch with the Grips! Getting close for a MOCK-UP Build
No time for any more mockups!!!! Laying parts in a pile like this is the close as I can get to a mockup now. It's all the real deal moving forward!!
Glad you like the grips! Crank up some Aerosmith with @Jake Sensi
The more we chatted the more parts I brought out for color and scale comparison.
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Like @Psychographic , Tank asked if I could tape up the half/half paint like I did on the frame. As you can see with these bars, there are so many compound curves going it, what may start as the top becomes the side, then may become the bottom. I don't want the bars to look like a candy cane swirl
So what I plan to do now is paint the bars with a silver base coat, then taped it off so that it has speed scallop darts on the side views
HERE
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and HERE
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So the sweeping front of the bars will be coppertone feeding into darts over silver around the stem and in front of the grips. This will also give more definition for the grips. Hey @Dr. Tankenstein , thanks again for another profitable brainstorming session.
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Anytime buddy!
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Anxiously waiting to see this together 
My question is did anything else 'consume' part of your brainstorming session?
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JaxRhapsody
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The bike is dope. I have a hunch about what happened with the girvin fork; looking at those comparison pictures, the spring looks to be too short. On your other bike, and most other bikes I've seen, they angle down. On this bike they were angled up or close to it. It may have been because of the long head tube, like you were thinking, that the spring was too short.
