I second that emotion re Franklin Frames. Recommended. Not that far from Toledo.

My LBS owner asked me to manage the restoration of a mid 80s TS Issac frame/fork he inherited from an old client who passed away. The frame was mechanically sound but had endured some long, hard use. It was cosmetically on weak legs with some serious surface rust and paint/decal loss.

I talked it over pretty thoroughly with Jack at Franklin and decided to give him the work. Long story short he did a first class job with reproducing the one-off and pretty complex decals, as well as frame prep work in eliminating the rust without metal loss.

The paint work is just excellent. Two sanded primer coats to fill all imperfections, two color coats and two or three coats of clear for his standard pricing. Oh, and contrasting color fills in lug cutouts.

Shipping both ways, one-off decal repro and application as well as 6/7 spray coats for under $500. He even faced and chased everything gratis. Turn around time was about 9-10 weeks. 6 weeks of that was consumed by his decal maker getting the art set-up just right and production scheduled and accomplished.

Jack is a man of few words but if you give him his room to work he will not disappoint. I'm going back to him on a frame of my own soon.

Before and after pics on the Issac frame/fork are coming soon.

J