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Pewter Trek Gets A Manicure
Turns out I'd rather have a few perfect bikes than a bunch of imperfect ones, so it was pretty exciting to find a close match to the Trek pewter paint on my two 710s.
Deborah Lippman "Take The A Train" base layer with Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat. "OMG it's the BEST!!" said the super helpful beauty supply person. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-DhcgQZn-L.jpg Can you spot the touch-ups? Probably, but it's pretty invisible in real life and imperfection is more about surface prep than color. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...xxNb32J-XL.jpg Finally got it together to take pictures of a repair. This is the "Before" https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...Kd5qZHt-XL.jpg After some careful sanding with tiny piece of 320 wet/dry. Nice bright metal underneath! https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...BppM2Kx-XL.jpg Wet paint! Nail polish is fantastic...brush strokes and other unwanteds just disappear as it dries. Goes on thick and dries very thin with barely a lip. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...GTXpdgL-XL.jpg One coat coverage, now dry. You can see how uniform it became. It really would be a perfect match if the nail polish had bigger sparkly bits. The base coat is more matte than the bike paint until you... https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...6J7K9NQ-XL.jpg ...apply the top coat. I do two coats, allowing maybe 20 min between. Wife: "20 minutes?? I wait two minutes. It's fine. Stop obsessing." Visibly delighted to know WAY more than me about how to make this bike repair. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...nz4kgcs-XL.jpg And that's all there is to it! When finished you can see the touch-up if you look closely but you really have to look. The exception is inside when light from a single source can make the touchups look darker depending on the angle. Probably because of the smaller sparkly bits. But outside? Awesome! |
Certainly a win-win if your Wife can use the rest .:thumb:
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Excellent! I have a Trek 700 in need of much touch up - Now I'm inspired.
I found the base blue (testors) but the testors grey does not match the pewter headtube Maybe I need to head over to CVS - and take some more time on the prep and layering. Thanks Joe |
Wifey makes fun of me when I wander over to the nail polish aisles when she drags me to Ultra.
(Yes, I know it's "Ulta," it's just much more funny to say "Ultra." Like it's some kind of Japanese super hero store, or maybe a store where code breakers sell cryptography equipment.) |
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