Originally Posted by
Lenton58
Well it looks like you captured it very well. It is stunningly beautiful. Can you tell us more about the paint? Is it a lacquer ... a polyurethane ...? And does it come like this or does the painter put tint into the clear before application? I wonder about how it keys or adheres to chrome plating. I'm thinking that maybe it is a 2-pack finish like Dupont's Imron. Seriously dangerous stuff to work with unless you used a pressurized mask. So my guess it that it is very expensive.
What I meant was this photo does actually capture it. They usually don't.
I don't know what kind of paint they used but I believe it's an old established technique. This
http://www.hetchins.org/301a.htm is an old Hetchins from 1951. As far as I know it's a clear colour paint. I know the colours are limited to gold, blue, red and green, although green is not common. The paint chips very easily, I guess because it's on polished chrome and has little to key into, hence previous posts in this thread about over-painted chrome often having a roughed up surface.
I don't think the the Chesini was very expensive for a handmade frame. It was 650 Euro/¥74,000/US$880, which compared to the ¥220,000 that Cherubim charges for the same thing is decidedly cheap. The Cherubim is more nicely made but the chrome certainly no better.
