La Puttana ------Build------ Ride her hard, Sell her Cheap

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No going to quit these parts could keep clear coating but they do not need it.

Shoot 1 is the tins:

Tank, battery box, head light, tail light, fender
These parts will get the flake treatment and also a silver lace with white for the name on the tank and some sort of striping.
The prep for this shoot will be just as labor intensive if not more because the tins make the bike. These got to be glass with many many many coats of clear and taping.

Shoot 2 is all the small parts like mounts spacers handlebars shifter handle brake rods linkage stuff like that all blue flake but so small and so many angles need room to get around them.
This shoot will be just make the parts in color.

There is not enough room in there to do it all at once so everything needed seperated in how and what level it needed done.

The paint guy here in Dayton who sells to all the big paint guys in town said he had never seen a frame or tubes flaked only tins. Warned me then said is was cool when I would not waver. You know I went in they kind of overlooked me and was apprehisive at first until I showed him pictures of my builds and bikes and I said I liked doing the things not many will not do. It will be what it is whatever it ends up being.

After the pictures they were throwing free supplies in cups, sticks, that kind of stuff going out their way hooking me up!

Got the frame out in the sun. Wish the pictures really showed how it looks but, I can see lots of flake and I am the one riding her!











Got the frame and forks out the booth now open to do the tins. bought 10$ set of new twin beds sheets to cover.

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Drove the chop down to get the paint needed for the tins. Silver and White base to do my graphics on the tins. Also some more lacquer to clean my guns and cups.

[railroad bob]

paint like yours is more interesting to me than others. You take a look, nothing unusual, but wait a minute, what's that deep inside?

A double take, start seeing the details.

I like that.

Subtle.

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Thanks!

Got all the tins sanded with 180 grit to prepare for the second round of spray filler.

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Got the spray filler shot. 6 to 8 hr dry times to sand so, now a little break.

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Got everything sanded again with 180. Next to sand with 320 all over again.

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Sanded the tins with 320 grit. Now they are ready for the last coat of epoxy primer.

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Last coat of epoxy primer has been applied. 4 to 6 hr dry time and then sand with 400 grit to prepare for the base.

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The temperature has dropped to 65 degrees here and the wet coat of primer will not dry completly. Will have to wait until the heat of the of the day tomorrow to finish sanding and start painting. If the primer is taking this long to dry 8 coats of clear will never flash out in between coats. So, started working on the graphics for the name on the tank. Went to a tattoo website and printed it out then cut it out with a exacto knife.

http://www.tattoolettering.net/

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Got everything sanded 400 grit. Now tape the bolt holes and hit with a tack cloth then paint the base color.

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The parts are black.

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Got the first coat of flake on 1/2 hr shoot the second.

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Second coat of flake is on now every 1/2 hr coat with clear until 8 coats.

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1st and 2nd coat done got 2 in a spray.

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3rs and 4th

5 and 6 shot