|   Teesdale reborn! | DAS
Sep 22, 2003 7:47 PM | | Fed up with my scratched Teesdale frame, I sent it into Dauenhauer powder coaters in Santa Rosa for a fresh look. It looks much better! This is the same candy apple red that I had my Phil Wood painted (now Cygnus's bike). They also did my Ibis Spanky, and they do all Soulcraft, Sycip, and Jericho bikes. Awesome job.
Here is before |
| scratchy scratch | DAS
Sep 22, 2003 7:49 PM | | Close up of the cable scratches. Auto paint does not hold! |
| Cherry Apple Red | DAS
Sep 22, 2003 7:50 PM | | frame with Max Cherry powder coat |
| Cherry Apple Red - close up | DAS
Sep 22, 2003 7:52 PM | | closer
Powder coating is Dauenhauer, in case you're interested.
http://www.dmfg.com/pc/index.html
How much was it? Cheap! Around $120, including fork, which I'm putting on the Chester...more on that later. |
| beautiful | Aesop
Sep 22, 2003 8:23 PM | | very beautiful, are you putting decals back on it? |
| decals? | DAS
Sep 22, 2003 9:58 PM | | I wasn't planning on putting decals on it. I'll think it over. Does anyone know where I can have custom decals made? |
| ditto!!!! | namaSSte
Sep 23, 2003 6:45 AM | | very beautiful indeed!~ |
| cherry cousins | cygnus
Sep 22, 2003 9:09 PM | | DAS: that's very nice, a major upgrade in color and durability. here's your old pw frame before built I built it as an SS mt bike, and, more recently, as a street hot rod. |
| Cherry Apple Red | UnoPete
Sep 23, 2003 8:17 AM | | Nice color. It looks good from the pictures. |
| cool shop stand! | nalax
Sep 23, 2003 7:39 AM | | Great paint job and thanks for the info on the painter. Price is great too and it looks like they paint for some of the best builders.
Yes, Tom T. should powdercoat or at least offer it as an alternative to auto paint IMO. His frames are really fine - I've seen several of them. About the only negative I can think of for powder is if you buy a used frame in a powdercoat you don't like, it's a beach to strip. |
| Easy to strip | UnoPete
Sep 23, 2003 8:15 AM | | Buy some paint stripper from the hardware store. That stuff works great at taking off even powdercoating. It's nasty stuff though so wear gloves and be prepared to wash off any that gets on you. |
| strangely, i'm craving Luden's cough drops now. very nice. nm | the Inbred
Sep 22, 2003 9:22 PM | | |
| re: Teesdale reborn! | Manicmtbr
Sep 23, 2003 4:46 AM | | Are you implying the Teesdale paint does not hold up well? How long did you have your frame before it started to scratch?
I hope your answer is "a while"!!! |
| auto paint | DAS
Sep 23, 2003 8:08 AM | | The auto paint did not work for me. It was very pretty but scratched too easily. I guess I was not careful enough, also, and therefore I did most of the scratching everytime I worked on my bike. As you can see it scratched from cable rub as well. I have had the bike for 1.5 years.
Also, I've heard that Teesdale offers powder coat these days.
Maybe auto paint works fine for careful people, and/or people with road bikes. Powder coat is much better for me...I like bomb proof. |
| auto paint | Manicmtbr
Sep 23, 2003 9:52 AM | | Thanks for the update. I have one on the way and it is painted. He does offer powder coat, but I thought the paint would be good.
I am not real careful either, so I guess I will be visiting the powder coating gods myself in a year!
Glad to hear they ride well. I cannot wait for it to arrive. |
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