STP frame rawed + cut/filed/ sanded cable guides and v brake mounts = 1929g or 4.25lb with headset cups.
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STP frame rawed + cut/filed/ sanded cable guides and v brake mounts = 1929g or 4.25lb with headset cups.
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 oh, I see. i cant read. I misread it and was thinking you had filled in the tubing were the brake boss' were welded on. If the tubing was a bit thinner than it would had sunk in a bit around the welds, so I was thinking you had filled it in with weld or bondo. Anyhow it turned out real good. This will be my 3rd stp frame build. it's a 05 too and will be running disc brakes on the rear.
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 What did you have to "fill" on the frame. I have an 05' aswell and I think I'll be removing the v brake crud too. turned out real clean imo
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 fill? or file? What i did to remove the v-brake mounts was a dremel tool (or small angle grinder) to slice off most of the v-brake mount, and then i filed it smooth.
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 damn son my stp took about an hour to sand down wit some good old sand paper, wet and dry paper to be exact
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 oh and some elbow grease.
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 lol nicely done. It took me a whole lot longer (like an hour a day for half a week). I even used paint remover Blank Stare
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 lol it looks amazing raw tho, well worth it.
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 Love the way it looks in this photo. Probably going to do something similar to mine :>
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 awesome, it will look sick. When my fork gets all scratched up i'm thinking of making that raw and then making the frame raw again Razz
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 That would probably look sick :>
When you removed the brakemounts, wher
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 where there any holes in the seatstays under them?
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 nope there were no holes, you can check the other photos, i have a close up of the seat stay after removing the brake mounts
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 dude im definitely diggin' that!
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 it's being repainted right now *cough* damn paint fumes *cough* but the raw did look nice while it lasted
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 You should cut about 1/2" off the seat post.
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 the seat already rubs rear wheel when slammed as is
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 how did you strip it?
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 used Circa 1850 paint stripper and applied it probably 10 times, lots of it especially in the tight spots where you can't reach with sand paper. The rest i got off using sanding foam block, sanding paper, and wire brush. It took half a week of an hr or two a day...tough paint
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 so you took the paint on by paint striper from the whole frame and then you used the sand paper to make ut look like this? couse when I rawed my frame it didnt look nice like yours....
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 most of the paint was gone from paint remover, so I only had to use sand paper for a little bit of the frame. The shiny areas are from paint remover, and the scratched up areas are where I used sandpaper. I didn't use sand paper to polish the frame, only to get rid of paint. I used 80 and 120 grit sanding foam block.
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 thanks for the info....i really like the look of the raw frame!!
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 thanks, yeah i liked that look too! i wish i had the patience to polish it lol. Instead i just painted it
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 yeah that would probably look awesome,but would be a lot of work!!







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