Bike Painting Guides and Pictures of Your Work

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Bike Painting Guides and Pictures of Your Work
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flag projectCustoms
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 at 9:06 Quote
Very nice dude. I might have to use that matte purple scheme on one of my builds. looks sweet. Salute
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 5, 2015 at 11:51 Quote
Sanded down all the paint and cleaned paint work getting it dust free..
1st coat etch.. Then keyed it with scotch pad.. Next a 2pk high build aluminium primer..
If I get time tomorrow I'll sand down and paint top coat and lacquer.

1st coat.. 2pk etch

2nd coat.. 2pk epoxy high build aluminium primer

2nd coat.. 2pk high build epoxy aluminium primer
flag ratcat
Posted: Jan 5, 2015 at 12:02 Quote
Dude, leave it as is. They are beautiful.
flag RyanWensley
Posted: Jan 5, 2015 at 14:14 Quote
rAtty-c wrote:
Dude, leave it as is. They are beautiful.
So much this!
flag slope
Posted: Jan 5, 2015 at 18:13 Quote
Can't wait to see how these will turn out!
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 6, 2015 at 0:09 Quote
rAtty-c wrote:
Dude, leave it as is. They are beautiful.

Thanks...but they are going to be painted matt black or gloss black..
as I got these from nldesigns...
Now I don't know if I should paint the lowers matt black or gloss- semi gloss as the decals are a little glossy and I think it might be a little odd with the gloss decals on matt paint???I've got a few little decals to paint over and see what happens

Fox float 36 decals in the style of fox 40s 2014.. By Nldesigns.. http nldesigns.eu
flag pimpin-gimp
Posted: Jan 6, 2015 at 6:09 Quote
I've done about 6 pairs of 36's in satin white with glossy decals, it looks fine.
Fox black tends to be satin in finish rather than gloss anyway, so in satin black with the gloss decals they'll just look factory.
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 6, 2015 at 10:29 Quote
pimpin-gimp wrote:
I've done about 6 pairs of 36's in satin white with glossy decals, it looks fine.
Fox black tends to be satin in finish rather than gloss anyway, so in satin black with the gloss decals they'll just look factory.

Ok cool thanks for the info.. Will properly do this then, but I did lacquer some extra decals before I went home so see what they came out like tomorrow..

Did get this far today thou..
Painted it with a single pk matt-ish black..

3rd coat.. Single pk high build sheen..
flag enduro86
Posted: Jan 6, 2015 at 13:34 Quote
Looks really good.
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 6:41 Quote
So I painted the Matt lacquer yesterday..
4th coat 2pk Matt lacquer

4th coat 2pk Matt lacquer

With flash on
4th coat.. 2pk Matt lacquer
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 6:48 Quote
While I was at it I painted/ masked the fork crown too..

Re-sprayed fork crown
flag dagzin
Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 6:54 Quote
And today I put the decals on.. By nldesigns. Just waiting for my new seals to come then put it back together hopefully:p

Fox float 36 decals custom.. By Nldesigns http nldesigns.eu

Fox float 36 custom decals By Nldesigns http nldesigns.eu

Fox float 36 custom decals By Nldesigns http nldesigns.eu
flag USMC
Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 6:55 Quote
Looks sweet man. Great job!!
flag kmayHD
Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 8:07 Quote
That fork looks beauty!!! I just got my crank and fork decals from NLD, nice stuff, matched my frame color very well on the fork decals for my 40, and he gives ya free ID decals with your order!
flag Theeeeo
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Posted: Jan 8, 2015 at 8:47 Quote
Hey guys, methods for stripping and repainting my gold (polished) handlebars?
I'm not worried about the Kore/Rivera logos as I found the finishing to be kinda poor on these...
photo

And also, decal set on my 831s - would it better if I removed the stickers first or just straight up put my new ones over the previous ones? Anyone ever ordered a sticker set from these guys? https://www.stickerblimp.com/shop/category/fox-shocks/

I know the official Fox guys are MOJO here in the UK, but £20 is pretty steep..

Sorry about the quality of the photo guys, though it is fundamentally a potato, the lighting doesnt do the picture much favour :L

 


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