Of course I do!

All I can say is ... ho-hum.

It went from blue to red. It was ugly, now it's a nice single color. Etc, etc, etc.

Where's the creativity in THAT?!

I know, restore repops are the "bread & butter" of bike painting, but once in a while, a good painter needs to flex some creative muscles. And that's what separates the painters from the artists.

Granted, my life has always been, how shall I say, unusual!
I spent my formative, pre-teen years hanging out at my Dads bar. A biker bar at that. I was always amazed at the paint schemes I would see on the hogs parked out front. Paul at Rock Lobster Cycles says that I have a style unlike other painters, and those Hell's Angels bikes were part of that.
So I'm just at home with the "Angels" as I am working the Lodge at Pebble Beach or the Bohemian Grove.
I just have to shave & get a haircut before I do the latter.
(the wife says I "clean up well")

But back to painting. Mrs East Hill's Raleigh mixte is my next creative victim .. er ..patient!
It'll be the Queen of all Mixte's!
I'm still going through withdrawls about actually selling it.
But she sent money, so it IS hers now. And I want it to be as special for her as I wanted it to be for me.

Now I'm not very "web literate", so I haven't had the funds to have a web savvy person update my online portfolio, but here are the samples I do have posted.

http://mbent.net/cycles/paint_gallery/index.html

And back "in the day" I was well known for introducing the StickFace badges like the Gargoyle I did for Fender1's Trek. Brian Bayliss is a big fan of those too!

So when considering a "painter", check their portfolio to see what's possible.
And of course, shipping is a rapidly growing concern. It can run a C note to get a frame from one Coast to the other and back.

And the price of PAINT is going up, right along with the price of gasoline! YIKES!
$300 for a gallon of clear!
Sure, I could use "cheaper" paint, but that's what it is, cheaper paint!
I'm not going to spend the time I do in prep, to cover it with lesser quality paint!
Just the "snob" inme shining through.

Thanks for reading my rant! And THANK YOU to all who have/are sending ME their frame to paint!
And I think we DO have a paint "Sticky" in the works.

Now get off your computer and GO RIDE!!!!