Originally Posted by
Velognome
This is C&V not the Faux network!
...contact paper will look like....well contact paper IMHO
Yeah, but if one starts with a C&V bike, it's C&V.
Contact paper? Ugh? Anyway, this idea resurfaced with me as I was shopping for self-adhesive maple veneer sheets to cover the front of a used keggerator to match the new maple cabinets int he kitchen. Real wood -- real thin.
Originally Posted by
puchfinnland
real veneer is not that difficult
vacuum bag the stuff on with epoxy.
about the brass plating-why cant flux föow brass over the lugs and then polish them?
(a) not sure what vaccuum-bagging is?
(B) real brass sounds like a great out-of-the-box idea.. ugh, what's the melting point, couldn't I end up un-lugging the frame?
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