Originally Posted by
Snydermann
It's going to take a lot of coats to build up any film thickness with that technique.
Would you mind sharing your technique for removing the original decals?
Heh heh....

In short, Snydermann, I just scraped them off. There were only remnants and even that fairly intact fork decal was dry and brittle. I used an extremely dull forty year old pocket knife and just sort of chipped them off, then finished up with Goof Off. Cleaned up very well.