I'm looking for a frame painter for a Cinelli I'm rebuilding. My local Nashville based powder coater fired the bike guy that paid attention to the details. Anywhere in the lower 48 states is fine.

Any recommendations for skilled and highly detailed painters?

Thanks!

For an italian where you don't want super thick paint...something more like the original...I really like southwest. Franklin in Ohio does a nice job that I think would be appropriate.

Hottubes in Shirley, MA. Circle-A in Providence, RI.

Is it a restoration or a repaint? There are lots of good painters in the lower 48, for a resto, I would look to Canada, Velocolour, if Noah Rosen is still there.

Tom Kellogg at Spectrum did a nice job on mine.

Sorry but powder coating and restoration shouldn't be in the same sentence. Wet paint or just leave it the original.

I would talk to Chris Kvale first.

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I very much agree.

The words "Cinelli" and "powder coater" in the same paragraph send chills down my spine.

Thanks for all the suggestions all!

My apologies about mentioning powder with a rebuild. I honestly don't have much history with painting, so I was just talking out of inexperience.

Perhaps you should post a few pictures of the bike before you proceed.

For most bikes, I wouldn't care. For a Cinelli, absolutely +1 on wet paint. Joe Bell is SoCal is probably the very best, and it'll cost you to go with him, but it will be perfect. Again, for most bikes, I'd say find someone reasonably local, but for a Cinelli, it's worth the shipping and expense for a Joe Bell paint job.

I suspect that I know which powdercoater the OP is talking about. The guy that is no longer there (I didn't know he was fired, they told me he left), was a cyclist that understood how to powdercoat a lugged steel frame. He was especially good with stainless lugs and brazeons. Anybody would be pleased with a powdercoat that he did.