Originally Posted by
seymour1910
I want to sandblast mine to bare metal like this then powder coat it. There are some good shops in my area but I'm not sure if any are good with bike frames. All of them say they are but what else would they say. I guess if I did all the masking myself I would feel better About it. Any ideas on what a typical price for the entire process would be?
You are way overthinking this. First the masking and blasting is included in the powder coating price, so it is foolish to do it yourself. Powder coaters know what they are doing, and bike frames are no different than anything else they do. You can't mask the bike yourself anyway since they use special tape that withstands the heat of the oven used to melt to coating. Regular tape that you have access to won't do. $65-100 should do it, but some really big shops have a higher minimum than that. They would do several frames for you for the same price as one. See if you can find a small, specialty shop. The minimum will likely be lower. I had two aluminum rims done with brake track masking done for $25 each.