Originally Posted by rpenmanparker

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.